A national strategy and a comprehensive state for higher education are essential to public and personal economic prosperity. Bigger public investment in higher education can be provided through an innovative mix of bigger state appropriations, strategies, and grant aid at the federal and state level enhancing students’ chances of postsecondary success – will eventually lead to much more adults with college and university degrees.

This will sequentially lead to higher per person income and generate better tax revenue for the states. This will allow reinvestment in infrastructure and public programs that cooperatively contribute and attract more talent that empowers economic activity. Wise and enhanced public investment in higher education certainly will lead to a cycle of economic prosperity.