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Corporate Voices for Working Families Blueprint for
Business-Community College Partnerships
Corporate Voices encourages the scaling of best practice Learn and Earn model partnerships, which are collaborations that integrate important aspects of employment and education for working learners. Business and Community College Partnerships: A Blueprint helps practitioners create and sustain these partnerships to increase the skills of employees and college completion rates. Read more…
College Board Launches Online Tool to Measure Student Success
The College Board has launched a free online tool that provides quick and easy access to data that measure the success of community college students, from enrollment to college completion and career readiness. The Completion Arch—developed by the College Board’s Advocacy & Policy Center and MPR Associates—pulls together national, state and initiative data on student progress and success. College Board and MPR officials said the goal of the one-stop database is to portray the complexity of community colleges and to help state and federal lawmakers, policymakers, accrediting agencies, media and others develop a comprehensive understanding of who they serve and what they do.
Center for Future of Higher Education Announces New Enrollment Report
Across our nation, community colleges are closing their doors, deferring the dreams of more than 400,000 prospective students. It is a retreat from America’s commitment to expand college access and success happening, ironically, at the very moment that our nation’s leaders say we need more, not fewer, people with post-secondary education. It is a retreat that threatens our nation’s future.
This report Closing the Door, Increasing the Gap: Who’s Not Going to Community Colleges, analyzes recent problematic enrollment and policy trends at the nation’s community colleges. It uncovers trends toward expanding caps on community college enrollment and narrowing the educational programs available for students, denying access to higher education for large numbers of lower-income students and students of color.
Institute for Women's Policy Research Report on Women in STEM
The IWPR has released a report that analyzes trends in women's representation in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) fields of study at community colleges: Increasing Opportunities for Low-Income Women and Student Parents in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math at Community Colleges. To read the report.
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