Series on Higher Education
Created to support strategic planning and decision making by higher education leaders; includes books based on Institute conferences, DVDs featuring major presentations from Institute forums, Institute periodicals on relevant topics, and recorded web casts.
Advancing Higher Education
Focuses on issues of strategic importance to the ongoing vitality of America's universities and colleges. Topics include institutional leadership development, managing the academic workforce, and a variety of issues that affect institutions' budgets and balance sheets. Advancing Higher Education is written for a non-technical audience.
Research Dialogue
Published since 1984, Research Dialogue presents research and in-depth analyses. Issues generally address methodology, results, and implications of findings. Topics relate to Institute fields of study, including pensions and retirement, higher education, funding retiree health care, targeted savings strategies, and other related fields. (Hard copies of issues before no. 48 can be requested by contacting the Institute at 1-800-842-2733, extension 6363.)
Trends and Issues
Provides information to help readers make better financial and strategic decisions for themselves and their families. Topics frequently relate to financial planning for retirement and other goals. Some relate largely to employer-provided retirement plans and other employee benefits. Trends and Issues is written for a non-technical audience.
Policy Briefs
Examines public policy issues of current interest to legislators, regulators, plan sponsors, institutional administrators and/or the general public. The objective is to educate the reader, not to influence policy outcomes or public opinion. A Policy Brief may focus on a specific public policy proposal (e.g., Social Security privatization) or an issue of public policy interest (e.g., adequacy of workers' retirement savings). Policy Briefs are written for a non-technical audience.
Published Articles
Selections include articles published in professional journals such as American Economic Review, Benefits Quarterly, Journal of Financial Planning, Journal of Retirement Planning, Journal of Financial Economics, and the National Tax Journal. Papers presented in conference volumes published by institutions like the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Pension Research Council are also provided. Articles are written by Institute associates independently and in collaboration with other scholars.
