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New Website, Investment Priorities and More

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• Focus Area Investment Priorities in Action

Ascendium Education Group Announces New Philanthropy Website, Investment Priorities

The new website points partners to critical information on how Ascendium is working to change postsecondary and workforce training systems so that learners from low-income backgrounds can achieve upward socioeconomic mobility.

Strong Start to Finish

Learn about Strong Start to Finish, the groundbreaking pooled-funding project on developmental education

Emergency Grant Guidance

• Emergency Aid Grants? We Have Guidance to Share
• Essential Service: Tools of the Trade
• New Resource: Trends & Challenges in Financial Aid Awards

Transforming Community Colleges for Student Success

Sue Cui, Senior Program Officer, reflects on her Aspen Presidential Fellowship for Community College Excellence

A Sharper Focus: 2019 Education Philanthropy Report

• Refined strategy focuses on increasing equity for learners from low-income backgrounds

COVID-19: Ascendium's Role as a National Leader in Postsecondary Philanthropy

Read the Chronicle of Higher Education story

For Our Partners: Ascendium’s COVID-19 Response Plan

Read our COVID-19 response

Largest-ever Study of Impact of Open Educational Resources in College Reveals Benefits of Introducing OER Courses on a Broad Scale

Community college students taking multiple OER courses earned more credits and similar grades than students who took no OER courses and reported high engagement with course materials; effort saved students $10.7 million and was cost-effective for colleges

Final Ohio ASAP Report Shows Increased Graduation and Transfer Rates

• Meet Ascendium’s New Deputy Director of Grantmaking Miles Wilson
• Promising Early Findings from an Experimental Study of Multiple Measures Assessment and Placement
• ATD’s Open Education Resource Initiative Succeeds in Scaling up Courses