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Bruce Vandal

Rewarding Persistence: Effects of a Performance-Based Scholarship Program for Low-Incom... - 0 views

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    Study by MDRC looking at the effectiveness of performance based scholarships for low income students.
Mary Fulton

The Undereducated American - 0 views

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    Report concludes that the U.S. will need an additional 20 million workers with at least some postsecondary education over the next 15 years to meet future economic requirements and to reduce income inequality. (Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, June 2011)
Bruce Vandal

Guest Post: Community Colleges Are Not a Silver Bullet for Closing Completion Gap | New... - 0 views

  • Among students who begin in a two-year college, only 12 percent of underrepresented minority students and 16 percent of other students transfer to a four-year institution. Among transfers, only 55 percent of the minorities and 61 percent of other students earn a bachelor’s within six years of transferring. In sum, then, only about seven percent of minority students—and 10 percent of nonminority students—who begin in a two-year college earn a bachelor’s degree from any institution in these large systems within 10 years of starting college. These rates are far lower than for students who begin even in nonselective four-year colleges.
  • We can’t afford to waste this much talent. Indeed, a recent report from the independent, congressionally chartered Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance painted a stark picture of the consequences of current attendance patterns. According to the committee’s calculations, the combination of three forces—the increasing cost of college, insufficient need-based grant aid, and an enrollment shift among college-qualified students toward the two-year sector—resulted in a loss of between 1.7 and 3.2 million bachelor’s degrees over the last decade.
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    Piece from Kati Haycock from Ed Trust on the movement to push more students, particularly low-income students toward two-year institutions and the potential impact on bachelor's degree attainment. This could be useful piece for the push to move remedial education exclusively to community colleges.
Mary Fulton

Funding Our Future: A Financial Blueprint for Strengthening Higher Education in Washing... - 0 views

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    Recommendations from the Governor's Higher Education Funding Task Force include: increasing the number of residents graduating with bachelor's degrees, especially in STEM fields; providing the universities with flexibility to set tuition; expanding financial assistance to low- and middle- income students through private and public strategies; and holding public universities accountable for graduating more students. (Washington Governor's Higher Education Funding Task Force, January 2011)
Bruce Vandal

Priced Out | Education Trust - 0 views

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    Report on how poor financial aid policies negatively impact success for low-income students
Mary Fulton

Census Bureau Reports on Educational Attainment - 0 views

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    A series of reports on educational attainment; fields of bachelor's degrees; and the relationship between attainment, fields of study, and occupation and earnings. (U.S. Census Bureau, February 2012)
Mary Fulton

Certificates: Gateway to Gainful Employment and College Degrees - 0 views

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    Analyzes earnings by field of study, sex, race/ethnicity, and program length; looks at the demographic characteristics of certificate holders; and analyzes the institutions that most commonly award certificates and the states where certificates are most prevalent and provide the highest earnings returns. (Georgetown University Center on Education, June 2012)
Bruce Vandal

Virginia Governor's Commission on Higher Education Reform, Innovation and Investment - 1 views

  • Preserving and enhancing the instructional excellence of Virginia's leading universities and of the higher education system as a whole; Increasing significantly the percentage of college-age Virginians enrolling in institutions of higher education and attaining degrees; Attracting and preparing young people for the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) areas and other disciplines (e.g., healthcare and advanced manufacturing) where skill shortages now exist and/or unmet demand is anticipated; Forging new effective public-private partnerships and regional strategies for business recruitment, workforce preparation, and university-based research; Making Virginia a national leader in providing higher education opportunities to military personnel and veterans; Crafting a sustainable higher education funding model that will systematically move Virginia toward higher levels of educational attainment and economic competitiveness over the next decade-and-a-half; Developing innovative ways to deliver quality instruction, cost-saving reform strategies, and affordable new pathways to degree attainment for capable and motivated Virginians regardless of income or background; Evaluating strategies to reduce costs through additional college placement testing and accelerated degree completion; and Creating effective workforce development programs through expanded use of the Community College System in coordination with the Commission on Economic Development and Job Creation.
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    Executive Order #9 from VA governor McConnell.
Mary Fulton

The College Payoff: Education, Occupations, Lifetime Earnings - 0 views

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    Study examines updated data and confirms that the value of college degrees is increasing. The report also looks at earnings of different occupations and degree levels. Some occupations pay better than others, so less-educated workers can earn more than more-educated workers. (Tony Carnevale, Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, August 2011)
Mary Fulton

The High Cost of Low Graduation Rates: How Much Does Dropping Out of College Really Cost? - 0 views

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    Documents the size of potential earnings and tax revenues lost to federal and state governments associated with the large number of students who do not graduate from college. (American Institutes of Research, August 2011)
Mary Fulton

Charting Pathways to Completion for Low-Income Community College Students - 1 views

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    Examines data from Washington State to chart the educational pathways of first-time community college students, with a focus on those from disadvantaged backgrounds. Looks at rates at which students enter a program of study or concentration, amount of remediation taken by students, and rates at which students earn certificates or associate degrees, or transfer to four-year institutions. The paper makes recommendations for practitioners and policymakers. (Community College Research Center, September, 2011)
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