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| Sixteen Community Colleges Selected for National Initiative (October 22, 2005) |
Breaking Through Aims to Make Higher
Education Possible for Many Adults Who Are Now Poorly Prepared
for Postsecondary Programs or Good Jobs
Sixteen community colleges
have been selected to participate in a multi-year national
initiative to increase the number of low-skilled adults
who enter and complete occupational and technical degree
programs in community and technical colleges.
Breaking Through:
Helping Low-Skilled Adults Enter and Succeed in College
and Careers will be managed by the National Council
for Workforce Education and Jobs for the Future. The Charles
Stewart Mott Foundation made a $751,000 grant to JFF this
year in support of the initiative, which is designed to
use community colleges as a vehicle to help low-income people
advance in the labor market and to enhance their income. |
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| Groundbreaking Forum Explores the Fate of the American Dream (September 28, 2005) |
Business and Government Leaders Gathering to Find
Solutions for Education and Workforce Crisis
On
September 19-20, top corporate, education, and workforce policymakers
came together to address the failure to prepare the nation for the
demands of the knowledge-based, global economy of the 21st century.
Through a dynamic, interactive forum, town hall-style gatherings, and
addresses by prominent policymakers, 100 business and government
leaders discussed how we can restore the “American Dream.” Participants
emerged with concrete strategies and resources to help provide more
young people and adults with a better education and better careers. |
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| Making a Difference Awards Honor Four (September 19, 2005) |
Presentation Opens Two-Day Gathering
of Business and Government Leaders to Find Solutions for Education and Workforce Crisis
On Monday, September 19,
the first Arthur H. White Making a Difference Awards will
recognize four extraordinary individuals—from organizations
in Los Angeles, San Jose, Hartford, and Boston—who
have improved the lives of people in their communities.
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| Report: High Growth Occupations Within Reach for Many Low-Skilled U.S. Workers (September 15, 2005) |
Report
Identifies Workforce Development Strategies for Job Growth, Especially
Among Minorities, Immigrants and Low-Income Americans
For
too many of America’s citizens, the goal of earning a paycheck to
support a family, the key to the American Dream, has slipped out of
reach. In response to this national crisis, Jobs for the Future
has published The Right Jobs: Identifying Career Advancement
Opportunities for Low-Skilled Workers, a landmark new report that
pinpoints 16 specific occupations that have the promise to lift
thousands of Americans out of poverty into the middle class.
Written by researchers Susan Goldberger, Newell Lessell and Radha Roy
Biswas, the report discusses six of the occupations in detail,
providing such crucial information as growth estimates, earning
potential and educational requirements. The report also offers
comprehensive public policy strategies that, if implemented, will make
these jobs more accessible to the workers who need them. |
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| Region Exploring Strategy to Improve College Access for Low-Income and Minority Youth (June 28, 2005) |
Nineteen New England Programs Cited as Excellent Models
A
new report, Head Start on College, released today by Jobs for the
Future (JFF) as part of its Double the Numbers initiative and
commissioned by the Nellie Mae Education Foundation, explores the
potential of dual enrollment programs as a way of expanding the
pipeline of traditionally underserved students who enter higher
education institutions in New England.
Each
year, more and more high school students reduce their college costs and
get a head start on college through programs that enable them to earn
up to two year’s worth of tuition-free college credit. But while New
England high schools lead the nation in providing advanced placement,
an option that benefits students headed for selective colleges, they
lag behind schools from other regions in implementing an approach that
is more likely to serve lower-income and minority students.
“Policymakers
and educators concerned with improving the access of underrepresented
students to postsecondary education are beginning to consider dual
enrollment as a strategy to introduce higher education to a ‘second
population’: young people who may not consider themselves college
bound,” explains JFF’s Nancy Hoffman, who co-authored the report with
Amy Robins. |
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| Community Colleges Solicited for Excellence Award (April 8, 2005) |
| MetLife Foundation to Recognize Innovation
in Helping Youth and Adults Succeed in College
April 8, 2005
Community colleges from across the nation are invited to apply for the
2006 MetLife Foundation Community College Excellence Award. Two
community colleges will be honored for their institution-wide
commitment to helping diverse students enter and succeed in
postsecondary education. The winning colleges will each receive a
$30,000 award and national recognition.
“Across the country, community colleges are responding to the
achallenges their students face through innovative strategies and
programs,” notes Sibyl Jacobson, president and CEO of MetLife
Foundation. “This award recognizes their important work.”
Administered by Jobs for the Future, the MetLife Foundation Community
College Excellence Award celebrates and highlights the accomplishments
of colleges that are helping less-advantaged youth and adults succeed
and advance in college and careers. |
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| Community Colleges Where Everyone Wins (April 6, 2005) |
| “It’s education that makes you special,” says Mei Yen Huang, a
41-year-old community college student. “Each hour is precious now and I
want them all.”
This 41-year-old, who came to the United States from Taiwan ten years
ago with her son, is a student at City College of San Francisco. CCSF
and Community College of Denver are featured in Walking the Talk, a
publication from Jobs for the Future and Next Generation Press
presenting compelling stories of college leaders, faculty, and staff
working together to help students like her succeed. |
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| Five Cities Receive Grants for Innovative Partnerships (January 12, 2005) |
| American high schools are revealing serious leaks in the “pipeline”
that should take young people through school and into economically
productive adulthood. Nationally, more than 30% of students do not
complete high school in a timely way. In some inner-city neighborhoods,
the odds of high school graduation are only fifty-fifty.
In response to this alarming trend, several funders have come together
to support efforts in selected cities to improve educational options
and outcomes for the growing numbers of struggling and out-of-school
youth. The Youth Transition Funders Group, a group of local, regional,
and national philanthropies, today announced grants to enable five
cities to strengthen their strategies for reducing the numbers of young
people who drop out and reconnecting those who have left school. |
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