Our community college completion challenge
A year ago I wrote about the year two results from the MDRC evaluation of the Detroit Promise Plus program. This post is largely a
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A year ago I wrote about the year two results from the MDRC evaluation of the Detroit Promise Plus program. This post is largely a
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
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,
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
I support President Obama’s proposal to make community college tuition free for those students who stay on track academically. Expanding education opportunity and outcomes is
The good folks at Bridge Magazine published a guest commentary I wrote based on my commencement address at Alma College. (The Bridge column is here
Conventional wisdom has it that big cities are dead. This time the cause of their predicted demise is the pandemic. It is widely believed that
I am a long-time fan of Kettering University. Particularly their integration of learning and work with their one semester at school followed by one semester
Tuition-free college is having a moment. States across the country are offering tuition-free programs at their community colleges. And last year New York State began
Over the past few months, Michigan Future facilitated a College Success book club for a group of stakeholders in the city working to get more