Media Partnerships

This grant supports Community College Research Center in deepening the evidence base on a range of student success reform areas and partnering with community colleges to use research as a tool to strengthen their programs and services, increase efficiency, and improve student outcomes.

This grant supports MDRC in conducting in depth research in partnership with postsecondary and workforce training practitioners and policymakers to identify best practices, effective program components, and overall strategies that improve economic mobility for learners from low-income backgrounds.

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.

This grant supports Rockwood Leadership Institute in implementing the Fellowship for Formerly Incarcerated Leaders in Higher Education in Prison program for three additional cohorts.

This grant supports Social Finance in piloting innovative workforce training financing models to improve labor market outcomes for learners from low-income backgrounds. Social Finance will design models leveraging outcomes-based funding structures in two areas: (1) to support learners in accessing and succeeding in pre-apprenticeships and (2) to catalyze training programs within specific industry sectors critical to rural workforce needs. Social Finance will also launch the Social Finance Institute as a hub for dissemination of insights from these and other initiatives, with a focus on informing public and private leaders about strategies to build sustainable and inclusive talent development pipelines.

This grant supports The Hechinger Report, a publication of the Teachers College at Columbia University, in producing high-quality reporting on emerging trends, challenges, and promising solutions in postsecondary education and workforce training.