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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.
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
A Sharper Focus: 2019 Education Philanthropy Report
- Refined strategy focuses on increasing equity for learners from low-income backgrounds
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
New Grants Support a Spectrum of Student Success Initiatives
- ASU Local: Creating a New Model of College Success
- On the Go: Find Ascendium Staff in the Field
New Initiative Will Help "Optimize" HEP Delivery in MN, IA and NY
- CAPR Conference Reflects on Developmental Education Reform Research and Next Steps
- Reflections on the First Year of the Ascendium Fellowship Program
- New Book from the NAS Spotlights Strategies for Helping Those Not Benefitting from Developmental Math
Fall 2019 Grantmaking Update
- Celebrating a New Campus in Our Own Community
- Danielle Vetter to Join Education Grantmaking Team
- On the Go: Find Ascendium Staff in the Field
GFE Annual Conference to Highlight Ascendium Grant Partners’ Great Work
- Mesa, Arizona Wins the FAFSA Completion Challenge
- New NAS Report Explores Strategies for Helping More Students Succeed in Math
- On the Go: Find Ascendium Staff in the Field
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