WHY MEDIA PARTNERSHIPS?
High-quality reporting and storytelling are vital for investigating, proposing, and disseminating systemic solutions to challenges faced by learners from low-income backgrounds. When media highlight problems alongside evidence-based solutions, successful practices have the potential to scale up. Media amplification can also encourage individual policymakers, communities, and government agencies to address critical issues in improving postsecondary education and workforce training outcomes. By framing and amplifying the issues critical to improving postsecondary education and workforce training outcomes, media partners get important information in front of those who can advocate for and make real, systemic change.
Learn more about how our media partnerships support learners from low-income backgrounds.
Bringing Forward Underserved Learners’ Experiences
The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Different Voices of Student Success lifts underserved learners’ experiences and shares best practices for supporting them.
Connecting Postsecondary Education, Training, and Work
The Job, a weekly newsletter from Work Shift News, provides in-depth coverage on education, training, and work, equipping policymakers and others with the information they need to act on it.
Empowering Incarcerated Learners on their Postsecondary Education Journeys
Roadtrip Nation’s video and digital storytelling on postsecondary education in prison connects incarcerated learners, and those who support them, with narratives to help them define their own road in life.
Highlighting Solutions in Postsecondary Education and Workforce Training
The Hechinger Report produces high-quality reporting on research, reforms, and promising solutions with the goal of improving the American education system.
Supporting National Reporting on Postsecondary Education in Prison
Open Campus’ biweekly newsletter College Inside investigates the future of postsecondary education in prison by focusing on incarcerated learners’ stories.
Supporting National Reporting on Rural Postsecondary Education and Workforce Training
Open Campus’ bimonthly newsletter Mile Markers explores the voices and issues shaping postsecondary education and workforce training in rural communities.
Strengthening Media Coverage of Postsecondary Education Topics
The Education Writers Association is the go-to resource for education writers, supporting the expansion of high-quality, thoughtful media coverage nationwide.
Reporting on Postsecondary Education Pathways in Wisconsin
Wisconsin Watch, one of the nation’s longest-standing nonprofit newsrooms, helps residents explore pathways to improving their communities and lives.
Listening to What’s Next in Postsecondary Education
Academic Intelligence’s Future U. podcast series examines the postsecondary education landscape through interviews with national thought leaders and innovators.Delivering Expert Reporting on Rural and Prison Workforce Training and Postsecondary Education
Field Development
This grant supports Open Campus in producing newsletters focused on postsecondary education for rural and justice-impacted learners and fostering deep engagement around these topics. Further, funding will support Open Campus in building the capacity of local networks to produce high-quality, state-based reporting on rural workforce development.
Expanding Reporting, Shaping the Future: Investing in Journalism that Advances Economic Opportunity (WorkShift / The Job)
Field Development
This grant supports Work Shift in publishing weekly digital content covering apprenticeships, community college-led opportunity hubs, and state policy and funding innovation. As part of this work and important to its strategy, Work Shift will engage with targeted decision makers through outreach and speaking engagements and raise the quality of news through local reporting fellowships.
National Reporting by Hechinger Report on Postsecondary Education and Workforce Training
Field Development
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.
Supporting Reporting on Indigenous Communities, Identity, and Postsecondary Education
Field Development
This grant supports Indij Public Media in expanding national reporting on postsecondary education and workforce training for Native learners and communities.
Elevating Better Pathways to Opportunity - Voices of Student Success
Field Development
This grant supports The Chronicle in creating and producing/publishing a virtual forum series, special reports, case studies and grantee spotlights that highlight topics like workforce innovations, guided pathways, AI in transfer, apprenticeships, and more. All will be published in their student success portal that exists outside the paywall.
Strategic Evidence Planning Cohort
Field Development
This grant supports Project Evident in engaging with six Ascendium-funded partners to develop roadmaps for generating the data and evidence needed for internal learning, program improvement, and communication of impact.
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