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Redesigning America’s Community Colleges

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Inequality And Four-year Degree Attainment

Inequality and four-year degree attainment

  • August 13, 2020
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Talent
  • 2 Comments

Four-year degree attainment is essential to eliminating income and racial inequality. As the chart below makes clear, those with a four-year degree or more work more and earn more. In a terrific analysis of four-year degree graduation rates by race…

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How To Improve Community College Completion Rates

How to improve community college completion rates

  • February 12, 2020
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Talent
  • 0 Comments

By and large across Michigan and the country community college completion rates are quite low. As detailed in Redesigning America's Community Colleges this largely is a result of how community colleges are designed. For ease of access, not completion. Redesigning…

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The Community College Completion Challenge

The community college completion challenge

  • May 3, 2019
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Talent
  • 0 Comments

The recently released MDRC evaluation of the Detroit Promise underscores the community college completion challenge. Despite adding financial incentives and intensive supports to free tuition, only 29 (five percent) of 390 students who started in the program earned at least…

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The Difficulty Of Getting To 60 Percent With Post-secondary Credentials

The difficulty of getting to 60 percent with post-secondary credentials

  • April 26, 2019
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Talent
  • 0 Comments

Governor Whitmer with lots of bi-partisan and business community support has established the goal of 60 percent of Michigan adults having a post- secondary credential by 2030. The Lumina Foundation––which has been at the center of the national effort to…

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Community Colleges Need To Be Redesigned

Community colleges need to be redesigned

  • November 9, 2018
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Talent
  • 2 Comments

At least rhetorically––not so much when it comes to funding––there is a lot of support on a bi-partisan basis for community colleges. They are seen as critical to preparing workers for the skilled trades and other mid-skill jobs. Occupations employers…

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