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.
Expanding Postsecondary Education Coverage Nationwide
The Associated Press is an independent, global, and nonpartisan news organization that provides its content and services to 3,500 member newsrooms across the country.
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 Rural and Prison Postsecondary Education and Workforce Training
Two newsletters produced by Open Campus foster deep engagement with the topic of postsecondary education and workforce training for rural and justice-impacted learners.
Building the Capacity for Postsecondary Education Storytelling
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.
Spotlighting Apprenticeship as a Pathway to Success
Inside Higher Ed is a leading media outlet for the postsecondary education community and has recently expanded its coverage to include a broader focus on workforce training solutions like apprenticeship.
Expanding Postsecondary Education Coverage into Rural Communities
The Institute for Nonprofit News is a nonpartisan public service organization that supports 500 independent news outlets across the country and has a growing interest in expanding storytelling into rural areas.
Reimagining Rural Postsecondary Education and Workforce Training Solutions
The Brookings Institution’s Reimagine Rural podcast highlights how strategic public investments in rural communities can spur innovation and development, including the ways in which postsecondary education and workforce training are key to opportunity for rural learners.
Elevating the Profile of Community Colleges as Economic Engines of Growth
The Arizona State University Foundation for a New University, along with the National Academy of Sciences, publishes “Issues in Science and Technology,” which provides accessible and diverse reporting on topics including postsecondary education.An Applied Research Agenda to Support Community College Reform and Learner Advancement
Field Development
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.
Accelerating Impact: Advancing Evidence for Postsecondary Success and Economic Mobility
Field Development
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.
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.
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.
Improving Coverage of Post-Secondary Education and Workforce Development for Rural Communities
Field Development
This grant supports the Institute for Nonprofit News in partnering with rural newsrooms to produce a two-year collaborative series focused on education and workforce development issues and to identify and execute proven strategies for building audiences in rural communities.
Exploring Innovative Financing to Strengthen Pre-Apprenticeships, Creating Rural Talent Finance Partnerships, and Establishing the Social Finance Institute
Field Development
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.
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