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Washington State:
yWe rank 48th out of the 50 states in the participation rate in public 4-year higher
education (1997 federal
data presented by OFM)
xWe rank 41st in
upper-division enrollment – “Bachelors degree granting capacity” – still in the bottom
20% of states
xWe rank 4th in
community college participation
yWashington’s public
higher education system is structured
for a manufacturing economy, not an innovation economy!