Adult college completion network
The Adult College Completion (ACC) Network unites organizations and agencies working to increase college completion by adults with prior college credits but no degree in a collaborative learning network. More »
Black Male Student Success in Higher Education
Studies that emphasize the troubled educational status of Black males yield few solutions for improvement, contends this report from the Center for the Study of Race & Equity in Education. The report counterbalances deficit information with views from Black males who’ve overcome odds to successfully navigate to and through higher education. More »
College Productivity’s Tracking Momentum: December 2011
The latest edition of College Productivity’s Tracking Momentum newsletter reports on the progress of states to implement higher education funding models that reward institutions based on performance outcomes such as student learning and degree completion. More »
Aligning Community Colleges to their Local Labor Markets
This report, from Jobs for the Future, offers analysis on creating credentials that have high value for both workers and employers. More »
Credentials that Work
This report, from Jobs for the Future, provides community colleges with up-to-date information about in-demand occupations and skill needs of local employers. Using new technology to aggregate and analyze online job ads, the effort will produce data to help community colleges better align their program offerings and training with workforce outcomes. More »
New report finds that 63 percent of associate degrees in STEM pay more than bachelor's degrees in non-STEM occupations
The report from the Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce finds that STEM jobs are the best-paying jobs for people at the sub-baccalaureate level. Yet a major conclusion of the report is that STEM jobs do not satisfy individual social and entrepreneurial interests resulting in STEM talent moving outside their respective fields, and leaving the U.S. without the necessary STEM workers to compete successfully in the global economy. Read the report »
Front and Center: Critical Choices for Higher Education
Making online instruction more available and promoting and rewarding institutional changes that increase the number of students who complete a degree or certificate are two suggestions offered to improve college completion in this report from the Miller Center and the Association of Governing Boards.
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Tracking Momentum: Higher Education Productivity in America
This report highlights the latest developments occurring in states that have adopted one or more elements of Four Steps to Finishing First – Lumina’s state policy agenda for increasing the number of graduates with existing resources and without sacrificing quality.
Hear Us Out
Students are not getting the college-going support they need from adults and institutions soon enough, according to this publication, from What Kids Can Do, the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Public Education Foundation and the Alliance for Education. Watch videos of students discussing More »
Bringing Adults Back to College
Helping individuals who left college with a substantial number of credits but no degree can lead to increased degree production for states, says this report from the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education. The report examines the inclusion of “ready More »
