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A first-of-its-kind program aimed at bringing former students back into the UNC System to complete their bachelor’s degree is having a substantial effect on enrollment throughout the state. The Re-Enrollment Program – offered by Project Kitty Hawk, an affiliated entity of the UNC System – contacts former students who started a degree at a UNC System institution but never finished. Re-enrollment counselors walk them through options of when and how they can resume their studies, including re-enrolling at their former university or finding another institution within the UNC System that fits their needs. Since the PKH Re-Enrollment Program began in May 2023, 1,791 students have been brought back into UNC System institutions through the program. Fifty-two percent of students who have re-enrolled through the PKH Re-Enrollment Program have been out of school for at least three years – a demographic that universities across the country often struggle to bring back into higher education Learn More: https://ow.ly/8owL50SxbI9

Join Raftr and North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University next Thursday for this panel webinar about supporting new student success and engagement.

"To date, the national higher education field has developed multiple frameworks of metrics, thresholds, and consequences by which different oversight entities could hold institutions accountable for student outcomes. *Few proposals, however, provide sufficient detail about how federal, state, or institutional policies can properly coordinate, fund, design, support, and oversee improvement in student outcomes, and ideally do so as a coherent system.*" Please systems thinkers, apply.

The HBdV Fellows introduce themselves. We start with Merle-Sophie Thielmann from the Universität Mannheim. At the #7ECSLHE, I present a seminar concept introducing pre-service teachers to diversity-oriented school improvement processes. Students gained insight into the implementation of these processes during visits to cooperating schools and reflected on their future roles in shaping the schools they will work at. The presentation of the seminar concept is supplemented by qualitative analyses of students' written reflections and group discussions on the potential benefits of service learning in a) addressing the challenges faced by schools in socially disadvantaged areas and b) preparing pre-service teachers for teaching at and shaping schools in increasingly diverse environments.

#AbilityToBenefit (ATB) is a critical but underutilized strategy for ensuring equitable access to #PostsecondaryEducation and—by extension—economic stability. Black, Indigenous, and other communities of color are disproportionately impacted by this disparity, making ATB a critical lever for #RacialEquity as well. Through the Advancing ATB for Equitable Access to Opportunity project, World Education’s National College Transition Network supported California, North Carolina, and Texas in creating and implementing intentional ATB strategies as part of their work with the Racial Equity for Adult Credentials in Higher Education (REACH) Collaborative. The REACH Collaborative is focused on transforming credential pathways to associate degrees at community colleges to improve credential attainment and economic mobility for adult learners of color. Through the intentional usage of ATB, states and community colleges can advance REACH’s goal of closing equity gaps by increasing systemic access to postsecondary education and better job opportunities for Black, Latino, and Native American adults. Read our case studies to learn how each of the three states strengthened ATB usage: ◾ California (led by the Career Ladders Project): https://lnkd.in/g9R392Ba ◾ North Carolina (led by the North Carolina Community College System): https://lnkd.in/gQnhxFv2 ◾ Texas (led by the Texas Success Center): https://lnkd.in/gTjksMdp

Following up on this Friday, If you missed our earlier post this week, catch up on our latest blog on Medium: https://lnkd.in/guer5VuK. While you're there, be sure to follow the Greater LA Education Foundation Medium page to stay updated on all future blogs. We have many exciting announcements planned for this year, so stay tuned! #GLAEF #Education #Blog #EducationTransformation #LosAngeles

In November 2023, the Council of Independent Colleges received a grant of $500,000 from Lilly Endowment Inc. The grant will support an ambitious communications capacity-building project, “Telling the Story of Vocational Exploration in Independent Higher Education,” that highlights CIC’s NetVUE (Network for Vocation in Undergraduate Education) and the network’s growth and positive impact. https://lnkd.in/eW6_rp7R   This grant will be used over a five-year period to increase awareness of NetVUE services and participation in its programs; to increase the capacity of member institutions to narrate the successes of their own vocation-related programming; and to make the benefits of vocational exploration programs more visible, both within member institutions and in the broader cultural conversation about the value of higher education.  

We were so proud to partner with EducationCounsel and the team at Alliance for Learning Innovation (ALI) to lead this work! To better understand the current state of affairs and chart a path forward toward an appropriately sized, inclusive, and equity-centered education R&D infrastructure at the federal, state, and local levels, the Alliance for Learning Innovation (ALI) convened three diverse, nonpartisan task forces over the last year to dig into three critical, urgent priorities: - - Strengthening state and local education R&D infrastructure - Making the education R&D ecosystem more inclusive - Expanding and strengthening the role in education R&D of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs), and Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs). Each task force produced a policy brief outlining recommendations for their priority area. Read them here: https://lnkd.in/e5dWnRJa // Federation of American Scientists

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Why invest time with Elsmere at this week’s events? For one or more of these reasons: + You’re seeking ways to accelerate your growth and success with nontraditional students + You’re frustrated by the constraints of your OPM partnerships + You’re flying blind with poor access to data from disparate software systems + Your internal teams focused on online programs can’t scale to meet the opportunity you see Meet our team to learn how Elsmere might help you #GrowABetterWay