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Love, Ivy; Palmer, Iris – New America, 2020
As additional states embark on the process of implementing four-year degrees at community colleges, they can learn from others' experience for help navigating the legislative, regulatory, and program approval processes. This brief uses examples from states currently offering bachelor's degrees at their community colleges to provide guidance for…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Bachelors Degrees, State Policy, Educational Policy
Seldon, Willa; Jolin, Michele; Schmitz, Paul – Bridgespan Group, 2012
Communities face powerful challenges that require powerful solutions: a high-school dropout epidemic, youth unemployment, teen pregnancy. In an era of limited resources, those solutions must help communities to achieve more with less. A new kind of community collaborative--an approach that aspires to significant community-wide progress by…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Employment Qualifications, Career Development, Job Skills
Jolin, Michele; Schmitz, Paul; Seldon, Willa – Bridgespan Group, 2012
Communities face powerful challenges--a high-school dropout epidemic, youth unemployment, teen pregnancy--that require powerful solutions. In a climate of increasingly constrained resources, those solutions must help communities to achieve more with less. A new kind of community collaborative--an approach that aspires to significant,…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Employment Qualifications, Career Development, Job Skills
US Department of Education, 2011
This report presents the deliberations of the Midwest Regional Advisory Committee (MW RAC), one of 10 RACs established under the Educational Technical Assistance Act of 2002 (20 U.S.C. sections 9601 et. seq.) to assess the educational needs of the region. The committee's report outlines the educational needs across the seven states of Illinois,…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Technical Assistance, Educational Needs, Federal Legislation
Joyce Foundation, 2010
Among the great strengths of a policy-oriented foundation like Joyce is the willingness to take a long view, to be patient investors in ideas that take time to have impact, and to take chances on projects that may not work out. But in times of crisis, Joyce team and partners also have an obligation to be responsive to immediate challenges in their…
Descriptors: Philanthropic Foundations, Nonprofit Organizations, Public Policy, Economic Climate
Ohio State Bureau of Employment Services, Columbus. – 1995
This report summarizes the activities conducted in 1994 in relation to the 23 recommendations included in Ohio's Action Agenda for Adult Literacy. The recommendations are grouped into the following categories: coordination/collaboration, public awareness, research, program resources and support, advocacy/funding, and accountability. Some of the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Advocacy