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Don’t Waste This Crisis, for Students’ Sake

Josh Wyner advises college leaders to take advantage of this crisis to fix transfer, increase need-based aid, and improve instruction.

BY College Excellence Program

Blog Post

05.27.2020
Community Colleges

Creating Outreach That Works

An interactive activity to allow college staff to practice drafting effective messaging to unemployed, underemployed, and opportunity youth populations.

BY College Excellence Program

Publication

11.01.2019
Community Colleges

Understanding and Reaching Underrepresented Prospective Community College Populations

In 2018 - 2019, the Aspen Institute, with support from the Siemens Foundation, conducted eight focus groups and a national survey to better understand how unemployed, underemployed, and opportunity youth populations think about work, training, and community college. This brief summarizes our findings.

BY College Excellence Program

Publication

11.01.2019
Community Colleges

Outreach and Messaging to Underrepresented Populations: Tools and Resources

These tools leverage Aspen’s research to help college leaders better understand how to craft messaging to encourage these populations to pursue strong community college technical programs.

BY College Excellence Program

Publication

11.01.2019
Community Colleges

Heads of the Class

Through its Aspen Presidential Fellowship, the Institute’s College Excellence Program teaches aspiring community college presidents how to make students’ future success their central goal.

BY Linda Perlstein, & 3 more

Longform

06.05.2019
Community Colleges

Florida's Best Win $1 Million Prize

Most Aspen Prize finalists have paired clear program roadmaps for all students with strong advising systems to support students along the way.

BY Institute Staff

Longform

06.05.2019
Community Colleges

The Workforce Playbook

Through quantitative and qualitative research on practices at 30 high-performing community colleges, and using concrete examples and step-by-step instruction, Aspen highlights what colleges can do to build more effective workforce programs.

BY College Excellence Program

Publication

06.01.2019
Community Colleges

The Employer Guide

What distinguishes partnerships that succeed? How can they be built? This publication answers those questions, offering guidance to employers seeking to build strong partnerships with community colleges.

BY College Excellence Program

Publication

06.01.2019
Community Colleges

Aspen Prize For Community College Excellence

The Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence honors those institutions that strive for and achieve exceptional levels of success for all students, while they are in college and after they graduate or transfer.

BY College Excellence Program

Publication

04.09.2019
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