2001 - 2008


 * By 2005, community colleges enrolled roughly 41% of undergraduates.
 * In 2006, half of all doctoral degrees were awarded by the sixty top universities.
 * Liberal arts colleges were threatened by the increasing popularity of non-liberal arts majors, which were (or are) seen as more career-oriented.  In 2005, only 0.8% of undergraduates attended liberal arts colleges.
 * Policymakers and educators focused their attention much attention on connecting secondary education and higher education.


 * More than forty states had dual enrollment programs (allowing high school students to take college courses for credit) by 2006.
 * From the mid 1990s to the mid 2000s, the revenue of public institutions of higher education doubled.