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Community College Baccalaureate Programs as an Equity Strategy: Student Access and Outcomes Data

Community College Baccalaureate Programs as an Equity Strategy: Student Access and Outcomes Data

CCBs provide an important baccalaureate access point for adult students and that graduates have strong employment and wage outcomes.

Mar 3, 2022

Elizabeth Meza, Ivy Love

Building Trust: Election Administration and the Role of Higher Education

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Building Trust: Election Administration and the Role of Higher Education

Hollie Russon Gilman co-authored a Columbia World Projects report on how universities can restore trust in elections.

Feb 22, 2022

Hollie Russon Gilman

Equity and Racial Justice: Where Do They Fit in a National Security Strategy?

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Equity and Racial Justice: Where Do They Fit in a National Security Strategy?

Eight essays exploring what a U.S. national security strategy focused on racial equity and justice could look like at home and abroad.

Feb 22, 2022

Heather Hurlburt, Shalonda Spencer, Sneha Nair, Elana Aquino, Shannon Paige, Sundaa Bridgett-Jones, Mari Faines, Nola Haynes, Amaney Jamal, Theodore Johnson, Pratima Narayan, Esq.

The Representation of Social Groups in U.S. Education Materials and Why it Matters

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The Representation of Social Groups in U.S. Education Materials and Why it Matters

This brief highlights the disparities in representation of characters from different racial, ethnic, and gender groups in educational media.

Feb 16, 2022

Amanda LaTasha Armstrong

The Naked Don’t Fear the Water: A Journey Through the Refugee Underground

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The Naked Don’t Fear the Water: A Journey Through the Refugee Underground

Matthieu Aikins follows a friend’s daring refugee odyssey from Afghanistan to Europe, exposing the human heart of the migration crisis.

Feb 15, 2022

Matthieu Aikins

Youth Apprenticeship Quality Assessment Tool

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Youth Apprenticeship Quality Assessment Tool

This four-step protocol aims to help youth apprenticeship leaders improve policies, procedures, and practices in support of learner success.

Feb 9, 2022

Lul Tesfai

Support for Ranked-Choice Voting across Race and Partisanship

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Support for Ranked-Choice Voting across Race and Partisanship

A large survey experiment tests how voters evaluate ranked-choice voting after reading how it works and arguments for and against it.

Feb 3, 2022

Joseph Anthony, David C. Kimball, Jack Santucci, Jamil Scott

For-Profit Colleges and the Myth of Institutional Equity

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For-Profit Colleges and the Myth of Institutional Equity

For years, for-profit colleges have maintained they must be regulated just the same as other colleges. It’s actually a faux equity campaign.

Feb 2, 2022

David Whitman

The Public Workforce Development System and Gig Workers

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The Public Workforce Development System and Gig Workers

Kelsey Berkowitz explores how the workforce development system can better help gig workers achieve their long-term career goals.

Jan 31, 2022

Kelsey Berkowitz

Funding Non-Degree Workforce Programs at Community Colleges

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Funding Non-Degree Workforce Programs at Community Colleges

Findings from ��Ƶ and Non-Profit Finance Fund’s study of financing approaches for non-degree workforce programs.

Jan 26, 2022

Dana Archer-Rosenthal

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Community College Baccalaureate Programs as an Equity Strategy: Student Access and Outcomes Data

Building Trust: Election Administration and the Role of Higher Education

Equity and Racial Justice: Where Do They Fit in a National Security Strategy?

The Representation of Social Groups in U.S. Education Materials and Why it Matters

The Naked Don’t Fear the Water: A Journey Through the Refugee Underground

Youth Apprenticeship Quality Assessment Tool

Support for Ranked-Choice Voting across Race and Partisanship

For-Profit Colleges and the Myth of Institutional Equity

The Public Workforce Development System and Gig Workers

Funding Non-Degree Workforce Programs at Community Colleges

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