Reporting on Apprenticeships as a Critical Pathway to Success
Field Development
This grant supports Inside Higher Ed in producing a four-part series on apprenticeships using case studies, expert interviews, personal narratives, and other in-depth on-site reporting. It will examine how innovative programs are aligning earn-and-learn opportunities to workforce needs and creating pathways to economic mobility for rural and other underserved learners.
Fair Chance to Advance: Transforming Systems and Building Pathways from Corrections to Quality Jobs
Connect
This grant supports Jobs for the Future (JFF) in fostering alignment across agencies and systems to improve postsecondary education programming and workforce training for learners with a history of incarceration. JFF will support leaders from state departments of correction, postsecondary systems, workforce agencies, and employers to remove systemic barriers to employment, create clear training pathways, and promote fair chance hiring.
Growing the Community of Formerly-Incarcerated Leaders in HEP
Field Development
This grant supports Rockwood Leadership Institute in implementing the Fellowship for Formerly Incarcerated Leaders in Higher Education in Prison program for three additional cohorts.
Developing Pre-entry Resources
Support
This grant supports Our Community Ltd in developing and disseminating career exploration resources to help incarcerated individuals make informed decisions about postsecondary education and workforce training that can provide opportunity for employment and upward mobility after release.
Seeding the Rise Up Summit
Field Development
This grant supports Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison in conducting a comprehensive convening and planning process to solidify the programmatic and logistical strategy for the annual virtual Rise Up Conference, now in its fifth year. Hudson Link is exploring the need and feasibility to transition Rise Up to a permanent, in-person annual event.
Measuring Rural College Student Access and Success
Field Development
This grant supports the Student Success Through Applied Research Lab at the University of Wisconsin—Madison in generating new insights, with novel data sources, into where rural students attend college, which colleges serve them well, and whether they return home after college.
Supporting the Massachusetts Prison Education Consortium
Connect
This grant supports The Educational Justice Institute in coordinating the Massachusetts Prison Education Consortium to convene providers, collect and analyze academic and corrections data, and develop a strategic plan for the expansion of postsecondary education programs in prisons across the state.
Beyond the College Walls: Principles and Partnerships for the Next Community College Decade
Field Development
This grant supports Achieving the Dream in sponsoring the publication of a new edited collection from Harvard Education Press that outlines key elements of community college reform required for those institutions to meet the needs of today’s and future learners.
Supporting the Reimagine Rural Podcast
Field Development
This grant supports the Reimagining Rural Policy initiative at the Brookings Institution in producing its third season of the Reiminagining Rural podcast. The podcast explores how strategic public investment in rural communities can spur innovation and development, including the ways in which postsecondary education and workforce training are core to opportunity for rural learners.
Synthesis of Evidence Across Three States on Shortened Academic Terms
Support
This grant supports Wheelhouse Center for Community College Leadership and Research in synthesizing evidence from three states about the impacts of shortened academic courses on student outcomes.