Higher & Continuing Education, Reform & Policy, Research, Education 

Introduction : the challenges of comparative state-level higher education policy research / Donald E. Heller -- Can access to community colleges for low-income adults be improved? : testing a model of the policy change process across six diverse states / Kathleen M. Shaw and Thomas Bailey -- Incorporating political indicators into comparative-state study of higher education policy / Michael K. McLendon and James C. Hearn -- The role of higher education in state budgets / Jennifer A. Delaney and William R. Doyle -- Tracking how ideas become higher education policy and practice : the challenges of gathering comparative state policy implementation data / Sara Goldrick-Rab and Kathleen M. Shaw -- Challenges to designing cross-state measures of state resources for higher education / William R. Doyle -- Developing public agendas for higher education : lessons for comparative higher education state policy / Karen Paulson.