Wednesday, January 15, 2025
What Does the Future of Postsecondary Advising Look Like? Kentucky Has a Plan.
Co-author: Danesha Ward
Blog: Mind the Gaps
Category: College and Career Readiness
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Tuesday, February 27, 2024
Aligning Advising Across K-12 and Postsecondary Systems is Better for Students, Institutions, and Communities
Co-Authored by Janice Le, Danesha Ward, and Erin Workman Over the past several decades, we have seen growing energy and emphasis put on building accountability into our education systems; yet, one metric is often deemphasized, or overlooked altogether: how prepared...
Wednesday, September 13, 2023
Attainment as the North Star: Supporting a Strategic Postsecondary Vision in Mississippi
Since its founding more than 40 years ago, the Woodward Hines Education Foundation (WHEF) has been steadfast in its commitment to transforming postsecondary outcomes for students and families all across Mississippi. Building on its early work as a small startup...
Thursday, August 3, 2023
The Role of Employers in Building Students’ Social Capital
Supporting and advocating for employer engagement in college and career pathways is a key priority for ESG. In our efforts to build stronger pathways for students, our team has worked with industry leaders, workforce boards, and chambers of commerce on...
Monday, August 22, 2022
Accelerate ED: Building A Better Path between K-12, College, and Work
How Accelerate ED design teams are building essential opportunities for all students to earn postsecondary credentials
Tuesday, April 12, 2022
Spotlight: Connecting the Momentum Metrics to New Economic Opportunities in Tipton, TN
Last year, Ford announced plans to build BlueOval City, a $5.6 billion mega campus that will produce next generation electric vehicles and batteries, in western Tennessee. The move will create 6,000 jobs in the region and has the potential to...
Tuesday, March 15, 2022
Accelerating Recovery: Where Are We Now?
Two years ago this month, the world as we knew it changed. As schools and economies shuttered across the globe in response to the coronavirus pandemic, it quickly became clear that the impacts of this crisis would reverberate for years...
Monday, February 28, 2022
Spotlight: Creative Partnerships to Improve Student Success in Osceola County, FL
It’s no secret that schools across the country are often strapped for resources and time to fully support each student’s individual needs. This is particularly true for schools that serve a majority of students of color and/or those experiencing poverty....
Thursday, February 3, 2022
Leveraging Cross-Sector Partnerships to Redesign High School Mathematics
Over the course of my 13-year tenure in advising and academic affairs at both open-access community colleges and selective four-year institutions, I uttered the words “You have to change your major or find a different program” far too many times—disproportionately...
Tuesday, September 21, 2021
States’ Pivotal Role in Expanding Postsecondary Advising
The pandemic has caused dramatic shifts in K-12 education, higher education, and the labor market and diverted many students’ postsecondary plans. Students are entering their third year of pandemic-impacted schooling, and they need advising on how to navigate these changing...
Thursday, May 14, 2020
Accelerate Recovery: Stop the College Readiness COVID Slide
The COVID-19 crisis continues to lay bare the reality that a postsecondary credential is the safest bet for an individual’s long-term economic stability. The most recent unemployment figures may be the harshest reminder yet that, in the aggregate, the answer...
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
Let’s Deliver on the Potential of Advanced Coursework
What is one of the most powerful predictors of a student’s likelihood to enroll and succeed in higher education? Whether that student earned postsecondary credit while in high school—through completion of a dual enrollment course, passage of an Advanced Placement...