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Colorado Department of Higher Education, 2025
The Colorado Re-Engaged (CORE) initiative, created under House Bill 21-1330, allows a four-year institution of higher education (IHE) to award an associate degree to former students who meet eligibility requirements -- including having already earned at least 70 credit hours before stopping-out of a bachelor's program. Under HB21-1330, each…
Descriptors: College Programs, Program Implementation, Associate Degrees, Stopouts
Erika B. Lewy – MDRC, 2024
In postsecondary research, comprehensive approaches to student success (CASS) programs are shown to have the greatest impact on student outcomes. At the core of a CASS program is personalized and proactive coaching in which coaches actively reach out to students and meet to discuss personal and academic issues. MDRC's evaluation of one CASS…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), College Students, College Programs, Academic Achievement
David B. Monaghan; Crystal Almanzar; Madison Laughman; Allyson Ritchey – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
Promise programs are discussed as a policy movement that began with the 2005 launch of the Kalamazoo Promise. Since then, programs bearing the Promise label or sharing similar features have spread across the higher educational landscape, appearing in most states and across postsecondary sectors. Simultaneously, scholarly literature discussing…
Descriptors: College Programs, Program Development, Scholarships, Models
Miller-Adams, Michelle; McMullen, Isabel – W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2022
Using the W.E. Upjohn Institute's Promise Programs Database--a searchable data set covering about 200 place-based scholarship programs--this paper explores how the design of Promise programs can shape their equity impacts. The authors first examine the landscape of place-based programs to understand the impact of program design on equity outcomes.…
Descriptors: College Programs, Scholarships, Student Financial Aid, Educational Equity (Finance)
Miller-Adams, Michelle – Harvard Education Press, 2021
In "The Path to Free College," Michelle Miller-Adams argues that tuition-free college, if pursued strategically and in alignment with other sectors, can be a powerful agent of change. She makes the case that broadly accessible and affordable higher education is in the public interest, yielding dividends not just for individuals but also…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Equal Education, Paying for College, Tuition
Pooja Patel; Sosanya Jones; James Dean Ward – ITHAKA S+R, 2024
The population of adult learners with Some College, No Credential (SCNC) has risen over the years to over 40 million individuals. A smaller subset of this population has debt that they owe their institutions directly in addition to state, federal, or private loans. As of 2020, approximately 6.6 million students owed more than $15 billion in…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Higher Education, Program Evaluation, Pilot Projects
Bacher, Johann; Fiorioli, Elisabeth; Moosbrugger, Robert; Nnebedum, Chigozie; Prandner, Dimitri; Shovakar, Nadine – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2020
The so-called refugee wave in the summer of 2015 led to an impressive wave of helpfulness in Austrian society. Universities Austria (uniko)--the umbrella organization of the 22 public universities in Austria--set up and launched an initiative called MORE. MORE provides refugees and asylum seekers with additional opportunities and perspectives that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Refugees, College Students, Inclusion
Jenkins, Davis; Lahr, Hana; Brown, Amy E.; Mazzariello, Amy – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2019
Over the last several years, the guided pathways approach to whole-college redesign has become a national movement in community colleges. Approximately 300 colleges are implementing guided pathways reforms as part of formal state or national initiatives, and many more are doing so on their own. Some of the earliest colleges to implement guided…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Community Colleges, College Programs, Student Personnel Services
Jordan, Chet; Picciano, Anthony – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019
The book analyses and evaluates several key community college reform programs that emerged after the Recession of 2008 and as a result of major initiatives in California, New York, Tennessee, Florida, Connecticut and Wisconsin. Because of the economic downturn in the early 21st Century, an already eroding financial base for public higher education…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Change, Economic Climate, Program Implementation
Manno, Michelle; Dukes, Dominique; Cerna, Oscar; Hill, Colin – MDRC, 2020
National college completion rates for men of color at open- and broad-access postsecondary institutions (including community colleges) lag behind completion rates for White students and for female students of any race or ethnicity. Research points to several broad factors to explain these unequal outcomes, including precollege environments that do…
Descriptors: College Students, Males, Success, Academic Achievement
Earle, Andrew M.; LaBrie, Joseph W. – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2016
University personnel tend to view "helicopter" parents as problematic. This article presents an alternative view in which these highly engaged parents can instead be utilized productively. The authors describe and assess the fidelity of a novel program in which involved parents were effectively leveraged to mitigate student…
Descriptors: Parents, Parent Student Relationship, Drinking, Parent Participation
Rawle, Fiona; Bowen, Tracey; Murck, Barbara; Hong, Rosa Junghwa – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2017
Curriculum mapping can be used to document, align, visualize, and assess curricular data, such as learning outcomes, assessment materials, instructional techniques, and student pre- and post-testing scores. A cross-disciplinary Curriculum Mapping Initiative currently underway at the University of Toronto Mississauga aims to: (1) develop guidelines…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Concept Mapping, Interdisciplinary Approach, Educational Strategies
Qurashi, Fahid – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2017
The Prevent policy was introduced in 2003 as part of the UK counter-terrorism strategy (CONTEST) with the aim of preventing the radicalisation of people to terrorism. In 2015, it was given a statutory footing in the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act and it became a legal duty for Higher Education Institutions among others. Since then, Higher…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Expertise, Terrorism, Prevention
Plumlee, Tucker – Council for Adult and Experiential Learning, 2016
This report examines the competency-based education (CBE) efforts of the 21 Jumpstart participants and their varied journeys in developing CBE programs: the unique decisions they have made around their developing programs; the challenges that have delayed some programs or prevented others from moving to implementation; and lessons from these…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, College Programs, Program Descriptions, Barriers
Willard, Jacklyn; Vasquez, Andrea; Lepe, Marco – MDRC, 2019
College Promise programs aim to make students believe they can afford college, and to give them the opportunity to go to college and earn degrees without taking on significant debt. At the core of all College Promise programs is a scholarship: All eligible College Promise students receive scholarships that may cover up to 100 percent of tuition…
Descriptors: College Programs, Paying for College, Access to Education, Scholarships