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New Grants, New Report on Postsecondary Education in Prison Metrics, Strong Start to Finish

• New Grants Support a Spectrum of Student Success Initiatives
• IHEP Releases Groundbreaking KPI Framework Report
• Strong Start To Finish Shows Early Promising Results: Case Studies

Report Details Framework for Gathering Data on Higher Ed in Prison

There is a national need to identify key performance indicators (KPIs) of student success for higher education in prison programs, and a report from the Institute for Higher Education Policy explores how to use those KPIs to identify and benchmark those programs. This important work was supported by a grant from Ascendium.

Supporting Success: The Higher Education in Prison Key Performance Indicator Framework

The much-anticipated release of IHEP’s report on key performance indicators establishes a set of metrics to collect data to help the field better understand and improve incarcerated student outcomes. Read more about Ascendium’s interest in funding this report.

Transfer Research Funding, Text Steps, New Resources and Recent Grants

• COVID-19’s Effect on Transfer: Toward a Clearer Picture
• Districts Take Next Steps After Text Steps
• New Resources

Maintain Momentum, WV Climb, Racial Justice Grants

• $10 Million Pandemic Grant Initiative Maintains Momentum for Student Success
• Collaboration is Key for West Virginia’s Climb
• Ascendium Awards $200,000 to Madison-Area Nonprofits Working for Racial Justice

New Website, Investment Priorities and More

• Checkout our new website!
• Measuring Success
• 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.

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

Ascendium Announces Funding for Three Sites in Major Higher Education in Prison Initiative

Madison, WI— Ascendium Education Group has committed up to $5 million in funding for its new initiative, “Optimizing Delivery Systems for Higher Education in Prison: Postsecondary Pathways for Re-Entry Transition.” This initiative represents Ascendium’s first major project in the higher education in prison (HEP) space since unveiling a new funding strategy featuring HEP as one of four key focus areas earlier this year.