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Policy Report Cites Prison Population as Target for College Attainment

In the national push to increase degree attainment throughout the United States, a new report urges policy-makers to focus more attention on providing post-secondary education to those who are behind bars.

May 10, 2011

Community Colleges

Community College Experts Urge Greater Collaboration To Boost Completion Rates

A policy symposium was convened to help bring attention to the role that community colleges are playing to fulfill the Obama Administration’s goal of producing the most college-educated workforce in the world by 2020.

April 27, 2011

Latinx

Federal Postsecondary Education Leader Urges Unity on College Completion Message

The many constituencies comprising U.S. higher education should come together to “speak with one voice” to the rest of this country, says Dr. Eduardo Ochoa, assistant secretary for postsecondary education.

January 31, 2011

Students

Southern U.S. College Graduation Rates Lag Behind National Average

A nuanced picture of college completion rates in southern U.S. states emerged Tuesday with the release of a study that shows most states trailing the national average—a trend that the report’s authors say could have negative implications for the region’s workforce and its increasingly diverse student population if things don’t improve.

December 7, 2010

Asian American Pacific Islander

Report: Asian American Academic Achievement in California Lags Heavily Within Certain Subgroups

Despite the pervasive nature of the “model minority” myth, members of certain Asian ethnicities in California have disproportionate rates of never finishing high school, especially if they’re poor or speak limited English, University of California researchers say.

December 2, 2010

Latinx

CareerWISE Web Resource Offers Ph.D. Guidance for Women in Science

Arizona State University researchers have created and launched an online, personal resilience training resource for women in science, technology, engineering and math fields that aims to increase their persistence in STEM doctoral programs.

November 7, 2010

African-American

Schools Step Up Efforts to Attract Adult Learners into College Programs

After traditional colleges and universities lost ground in the race to win back minority college dropouts, there is a push across academia to find innovative ways to recruit and retain adult learners.

November 1, 2010

African-American

Perspectives: Affirmative Action May be Needed — for Men

Anti-affirmative action initiatives such as the referendum before Arizona voters on Tuesday may prove harmful to men if universities cannot rely on that tool to achieve gender diversity.

October 31, 2010

African-American

Perspectives: Education Reform and the Access/Success Pendulum

As higher education renews its focus on college completion, we should be mindful about past failure to hold steadfast to access and success, UCLA professors urge.

October 25, 2010

African-American

ACE Report: Colleges More Diverse, but Racial Gaps Persist

While U.S. colleges have grown more racially diverse in recent years, minority students still lag behind on key measures of academic progress, a new American Council on Education report says.

October 19, 2010

Students

Conference Highlights Helping Students With Timely Degree Completion

Colleges and universities must find ways to help their increasingly diverse student bodies earn their degrees on time and accept responsibility if large numbers of students persistently take too long to graduate, expert panelists said Wednesday at a Baltimore education conference.

October 6, 2010

Students

Hispanic Scholarship Fund Launches “Generation 1st Degree” Campaign

The Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF) organization on Tuesday convened its Education Summit 2010 in New York and launched the ‘Generation 1st Degree’ program, which aims to fulfill the fund’s goal of helping Hispanic families attain a college degree in every household.

October 5, 2010