College Completion
By Lumina Foundation
White house releases "College Completion Tool Kit". Seven strategies for governors to increase college completion in their states.
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Latinos Success Strategies
By Excelencia in Education
Excelencia in Education and 60 partners have released a policy roadmap identifying national, state, and local actions to accelerate Latino degree attainment. The evidence is clear. America cannot become the world leader in college degrees by 2020, or have the globally competitive workforce of the future, without a tactical plan for increasing Latino college completion. A collaboration among 60 national partners, the Roadmap for Ensuring America's Future is a tool for stimulating and facilitating dialogue in communities across the nation about action needed to increase degree attainment generally, and Latino degree attainment specifically.
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HSIs and financial aid
By Excelencia in Education
Some institutions are making significant headway to improve persistence and degree completion for Latino students-and certain financial aid strategies play a major role in their success. Reality Check: Hispanic-Serving Institutions on the Texas Border Strategizing Financial Aid, from Excelencia in Education, examines practices and programs at eight Texas Hispanic-Serving Institutions that are helping to accelerate Latino access and success.
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Degree Completion
Stagnant college-completion rates have an impact on students and the nation’s ability to compete. Across the Great Divide, from Civic Enterprises, examines perspectives of CEOs and college presidents regarding America’s higher education and skills gap. The report offers recommendations to move higher education from a system focused on access to one that embraces access and completion.
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AP results
Record numbers of high school students are taking Advance Placement exams, but participation and pass rates continue to be lower for minority students. The College Board’s AP Report to the Nation shows that 14 percent of Hispanic and Latino students in the 2010 graduating class received a passing AP grade.
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Student Achievement Gap
Engaging full- and part-time faculty members is key to boosting college-completion rates, according to a white paper from Public Agenda. Created In partnership with Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count, Engaging Adjunct and Full-Time Faculty in Student Success Innovation provides an outline of core principles and promising practices for engaging faculty and closing student achievement gaps.
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New PSAs
A new series of public service announcements are being launched by the Ad Council, Lumina Foundation and the American Council on Education as part of the national KnowHow2GO campaign to encourage low-income and first-generation students to take the steps necessary to go to college.
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