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San Antonio College Emerges Winner of the 2021 Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence
San Antonio College won the 2021 Aspen Prize. This award, funded by Ascendium, Joyce Foundation and Siemens Foundation, honors community colleges with outstanding practices that impact and benefit learners of color and learners from low-income backgrounds.
For College Students in Crisis, Emergency Grants are a Lifeline
Students from low-income backgrounds who struggled to complete their degree during the COVID-19 health crisis have been able to utilize completion grants through the University Innovation Alliance. Support for exploring the development and piloting of these grants was provided by Ascendium in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Grant Explores How to Take Competency-Based Education to a System Level
The Kentucky Community and Technical College System Foundation is launching a yearlong planning project to research what it would take to implement a competency-based education platform at scale within its general education, career, technical and workforce training programs. Ascendium’s investment of $614,000 supports the project under our grantmaking focus area Streamline Key Learner Transitions.
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.
Data Project Will Clarify COVID-19's Impact on Equity in College Transfer
Ascendium's project with the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center will provide much-needed, near-real time data on college student transfers in the COVID-19 era
West Virginia’s Climb
Read more about a unique initiative Ascendium is supporting that puts partnership and collaboration at its center.
Strong Start to Finish
Learn about Strong Start to Finish, the groundbreaking pooled-funding project on developmental education
Transforming Community Colleges for Student Success
Sue Cui, Senior Program Officer, reflects on her Aspen Presidential Fellowship for Community College Excellence
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