"Students have high expectations for college, and these expectations have increased over the past two decades. In 1988, 57 percent of middle and high school students said it was very likely they would go to college. By 1997, this level had increased to 67 percent. Today, 75 percent say it is very likely they will go to college." – MetLife Survey of the American Teacher: Preparing Students for College and Careers
Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education
In December 2016, CommunicationWorks led the release of WICHE’s Knocking at the College Door report, a widely respected study of who will be graduating from high school over the next 15 years. The firm is also providing strategic counsel for one of WICHE’s interstate partnership initiatives.