Operating as a non-profit, non-partisan organization, the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP)'s primary goal is "to foster access and success in postsecondary education through public policy research and other activities that inform and influence the policymaking process." To accomplish this mission, the Institute compiles policy reports and studies, and also convenes seminars and meetings at their headquarters. Interested parties will definitely want to begin perusing their homepage for information about their latest work, which includes a report titled "How Latino Students Pay for College". A good way to learn about the policy issues they are most concerned with is through a perusal of the "Policy Issues" section of the site. Here visitors can look through such thematic areas as international higher education and information technology, and then proceed to download their latest research reports in each one of these areas.