Episode 4: What Does Access Really Mean?

What does true access look like beyond an admissions application? This episode explores what real access looks like in practice—and what Arizona can do, across education and workforce partners, to help more students complete the path they start. In this conversation, Dr. Steven R. Gonzales and Rich Nickel, President and CEO of Education Forward Arizona, examine the barriers that stand between students and opportunity, and the systems, policies, and supports needed to remove them. Because if higher education promises opportunity, access is what makes that promise real.