Found 10 resources.
Report
Thu, 05/20/2021
Shared by Housing Is
on May 20, 2021
Higher education offers millions of people the opportunity to improve their financial well-being. However, higher education is prohibitively expensive and can saddle people with insurmountable debt. Costs beyond tuition—such as housing, food, child care, and transportation—are large, essential components of the cost of attending college for students. In order to better understand how these living costs add up and vary, this report offers estimates of costs beyond tuition for older students between the ages of 25 – 45, who make up roughly one-third of college students and face unique barriers to college access and completion. The report shows that the real cost of college for older students is higher than commonly understood, examines older students’ challenges with financial aid and public benefits programs, and offers policy recommendations to address costs beyond tuition and improve college access and success for older students.
Attendance, Community development, Education, Housing, Post-secondary, Stability, Workforce development
Shared by Housing Is
on May 20, 2021
Policy Brief
Sun, 11/01/2020
Shared by Housing Is
on Mar 4, 2021
Colleges support students with advising, counseling, or coaching in academics and other skills they need to succeed in school. Some colleges enhance those services through reduced adviser caseloads and more comprehensive, frequent guidance, which can improve students’ semester-to-semester retention and average credits earned. This overview describes important lessons on designing and implementing those services. College leaders and administrators committed to designing, building, managing, and continually supporting enhanced advising services can consult this checklist of recommendations as they redesign or enhance these services — as stand-alone services or as part of multifaceted interventions.
Attendance, Child welfare, Community development, Education, Grade-level proficiency, Post-secondary, Workforce development
Shared by Housing Is
on Mar 4, 2021
Report
Tue, 01/28/2020
Shared by Housing Is
on Oct 6, 2020
The nation’s community colleges play a central role in producing a more educated workforce and promoting social mobility. They serve about 40 percent of all college students and, not surprisingly, they serve a disproportionate number of low-income and underrepresented students. But most students who enter these colleges do not graduate — only about a third of entering students earn a degree or certificate within six years.
Among the many programs that have attempted to increase graduation rates, one program stands out. Developed by the City University of New York (CUNY), the Accelerated Study in Associate Programs (ASAP) is a comprehensive program that provides students with up to three years of financial and academic support and other support services. Along with those services and other forms of support comes an obligation to attend full time and participate in essential program services. An experimental evaluation of CUNY ASAP found that the program nearly doubled graduation rates after three years. This report presents findings through three years from a replication of the ASAP model at three community colleges in Ohio.
Attendance, Education, Post-secondary, School-readiness, Workforce development
Shared by Housing Is
on Oct 6, 2020
Podcast
Thu, 05/28/2020
Shared by Housing Is
on Oct 6, 2020
Community colleges graduation rates remain low. Some studies have shown that students who enroll in summer courses are more likely to stay on track and graduate, yet despite these benefits most college students do not attend during the summer.
So why don’t students attend, and how can colleges encourage more of them to enroll in the summer? To answer these questions MDRC launched the Encouraging Additional Summer Enrollment — or EASE — project in partnership with the Ohio Association of Community Colleges and 10 community colleges in Ohio. MDRC designed, implemented, and tested two interventions to encourage summer enrollment, using insights from behavioral science, a study of how people make decisions. Both interventions worked to increase enrollment, and both could be operated at a relatively low cost
Attendance, Education, Post-secondary, School-readiness, Workforce development
Shared by Housing Is
on Oct 6, 2020
Report
Thu, 05/28/2020
Shared by Housing Is
on Oct 6, 2020
Bridge-to-college programs aim to help people complete high school and enroll in postsecondary education. This evaluation of one such program at Northeast Wisconsin Technical College in Green Bay finds that it helped more students earn their GEDs and enroll in college courses.
Education, Post-secondary, Workforce development
Shared by Housing Is
on Oct 6, 2020
Report
Thu, 05/02/2019
Shared by Abra Lyons-Warren
on Oct 6, 2020
Innovative public housing authorities (PHAs) are collaborating with college access partners and community colleges to increase postsecondary educational achievement for low-income residents and college students experiencing homelessness. This report elevates 11 shared learnings from a recent convening of these five pioneering PHAs and their postsecondary collaborators, and offers a series of recommendations to policy makers, PHAs, and philanthropic organizations seeking to develop emerging cross-sector collaborations between housing and education organizations. The report also includes an overview of the federal policies that support and limit postsecondary achievement for students served by PHAs, and profiles of the five partnerships: CHA and partners City Colleges of Chicago and One Million Degrees; CMHA and partner Columbus State Community College; HACLA and partner Southern California College Access Network (SoCal CAN); LMHA and partner Family Scholar House; and THA and partner Tacoma Community College.
CLPHA, Education, Housing, Legislation & Policy, Low-income, Partnerships, Post-secondary, Stability
Shared by Abra Lyons-Warren
on Oct 6, 2020
News Article
Tue, 10/16/2018
Shared by Mica O'Brien
on Oct 24, 2018
Some community colleges have found innovative partnerships with their public housing authorities may help combat student homelessness.
Asset building, CLPHA, Education, Homelessness, Housing, Low-income, Midwest, Pacific Northwest, Partnerships, Post-secondary, Stability, Workforce development
Shared by Mica O'Brien
on Oct 24, 2018
News Article
Tue, 10/02/2018
Shared by Mica O'Brien
on Oct 9, 2018
An organization is using the influence that teenagers have on their contemporaries to help more students from low-income families gain college admission and student aid.
Education, Low-income, Mental health, Post-secondary, Stability, Youth
Shared by Mica O'Brien
on Oct 9, 2018
News Article
Mon, 09/12/2016
Shared by Cassandra Brooks
on Dec 12, 2017
Education
Shared by Cassandra Brooks
on Dec 12, 2017
Report
Fri, 12/01/2017
Shared by Cassandra Brooks
on Dec 12, 2017
Education
Shared by Cassandra Brooks
on Dec 12, 2017
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