Posts Tagged: access & success
Campus support services for international students and first-generation students are usually separated, based on the assumption that these two groups of students have different needs. But are there benefits to joint programs?
The Institute for College Access and Success has published a report that attempts to understand how colleges and universities can best drive student success through data and evidence.
Catharine “Cappy” Bond Hill, president emerita of Vassar College (NY) and managing director at ITHAKA S&R delivers the Robert H. Atwell Plenary address at ACE2019.
ACE Vice President Lorelle Espinosa moderated a panel during ACE2019 on “Ensuring the Success of Men of Color: Lessons from Two Statewide Consortia,” featuring panelists Juan Sánchez Muñoz, president of the University of Houston, Downtown; Victor Sáenz, department chair and associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin; and William Franklin, vice president of student affairs for California State University, Dominguez Hills.
This panel explored the range of programs for students with intellectual disabilities and highlighted the institutional support necessary to make these programs a success.
The National Center for Education Statistics has released a new brief discussing how parent and student educational expectations have changed over time.
The No Lost Generation Student Initiative founded at George Washington University aims to ensure that a generation of displaced youth is not deprived of the universal right to education.
A recent National Bureau of Economic Research working paper focused on the effect of a targeted, tuition-free promise on college choices of high-achieving, low-income students in Michigan.
Achieving equitable access to college for communities of color and recognizing and protecting institutional autonomy and freedom to construct a diverse campus that generates educational benefits for its students have been critical goals for ACE throughout its history.
A decade after the Great Recession, the Economic Innovation Group assesses the economic recovery of U.S. communities defined by zip codes, counties, cities, and congressional districts and ranks them from prosperous to distressed.
Performance funding (PF) policies tie a portion of institutions’ state funding to measures of student access, retention, or completion. But a recent policy brief from the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education suggests that some state PF policies have had unintended consequences in the two-year sector.
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development has released its Education at a Glance 2018 report, which discusses educational indicators ranging from early childhood to doctoral education. In the realm of higher education, the report covers topics related to attainment, access, institutional expenditures, and workforce development, among others.