Sentences with phrase «college access advocate»

Nathan has received more than 40 awards, the most recent being the 2012 Kentucky College Access Advocate of the Year by the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education.

College access advocates look at those numbers and want to double down on reform, seeking to improve the quality of remedial education, or to skip it entirely, encouraging unprepared students to enroll directly in credit - bearing courses, or to offer heavy doses of student support.

This Journal is hosted by Western Michigan University and its co-editors are Patrick O'Connor, Ph.D. and Christopher Tremblay, Ed.D, both college access advocates in Michigan and beyond.

This year's awards dinner honored outstanding college access advocates from across Michigan.

New to this year's conference as a celebration of MCAN's fifth anniversary, was an awards dinner Sunday night that honored six outstanding college access advocates from across Michigan.

KALAMAZOO, MI — Two Michigan college access advocates have launched a new digital academic journal focused on various aspects of the national college access movement.

In this FCAN webinar, Rachel Fishman, Senior Policy Analyst at New America's Education Policy program and author of New America's College Decisions Survey, and Troy Miller, FCAN's Associate Director for Research and Policy, discussed the survey's findings and how they can help policymakers and college access advocates tailor their strategies for greater impact.

College access advocates need to develop long - term structural solutions to these disparities such as equitable school finance laws and more generous financial aid policies.

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She earned a marine science degree from Southampton College in 1981 and has advocated on behalf of shellfish growers for access to underwater lands through the Peconic Bay Leasing Program with Suffolk County.

Immigrant advocates called Wednesday for Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan's support of a budget proposal that would give access to college financial aid to young immigrants without legal status.

ALBANY — Immigrant rights advocates are pressuring Governor Andrew Cuomo to negotiate a deal with Senate Republicans on the Dream Act after lawmakers said Monday the proposal to allow undocumented college students access to state tuition assistance had fallen out of the budget.

Jon Tennant, an open - access advocate and a Ph.D. student at Imperial College London, likes the concept.

NHRP was founded in 1983 by the College Board, a nonprofit that advocates for expanded access to higher education and administers college - level exams such as tCollege Board, a nonprofit that advocates for expanded access to higher education and administers college - level exams such as tcollege - level exams such as the SAT.

College Access the Focus in RCAN Training at WXXI April 29, 2015 Fifty youth workers, educators, counselors and student advocates gathered for «Training the Trainers.»

On Wednesday, April 25, from 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m., Michigan College Access Network and college access and success organizations from across the state will meet with state legislators, advocate for postsecondary education, and highlight the work being done to increase Michigan's degree - attainmenCollege Access Network and college access and success organizations from across the state will meet with state legislators, advocate for postsecondary education, and highlight the work being done to increase Michigan's degree - attainmentAccess Network and college access and success organizations from across the state will meet with state legislators, advocate for postsecondary education, and highlight the work being done to increase Michigan's degree - attainmencollege access and success organizations from across the state will meet with state legislators, advocate for postsecondary education, and highlight the work being done to increase Michigan's degree - attainmentaccess and success organizations from across the state will meet with state legislators, advocate for postsecondary education, and highlight the work being done to increase Michigan's degree - attainment rate.

THE COMPASS AWARD: Advocating for Attainment Ensuring public policy supports Michigan's momentum toward achieving the Big Goal — 60 percent by 2025 — is a critical strategy of the Michigan College Access Network.

Lauren Asher is a college affordability advocate with the Institute for College Access and Scollege affordability advocate with the Institute for College Access and SCollege Access and Success.

Mar. 13, 2018 - LANSING, Mich. — The Michigan College Access Network (MCAN) held its eighth annual conference in Lansing and acknowledged 12 outstanding postsecondary education advocates from across the state at the awards dinner Monday evening.

March 9, 2016 - LANSING, MICH. — The Michigan College Access Network held its sixth annual conference in Lansing and recognized numerous outstanding college advocates from across the state on Tuesday at their annual College Access Impact Awards College Access Network held its sixth annual conference in Lansing and recognized numerous outstanding college advocates from across the state on Tuesday at their annual College Access Impact Awards college advocates from across the state on Tuesday at their annual College Access Impact Awards College Access Impact Awards dinner.

MCAN works toward achieving this goal by advocating for policy reforms that lower the barriers to college for students, sponsoring a number of statewide initiatives focused on increasing college access, delivering professional development to train college access professionals to be highly qualified and effective college advisers, and strengthening like - minded and mission - aligned statewide college access and success initiatives.

In November, she along with a team of Michigan school counseling advocates traveled to San Diego State University to focus on creating and implementing measurable action plans for improving school counseling preparation, programs and practices with the goal of increasing college access for all students.

March 14, 2017 - LANSING, MICH. — The Michigan College Access Network (MCAN) held its seventh annual conference in Lansing and announced eight outstanding postsecondary education advocates from across the state on Monday and Tuesday.

Letter from more than 50 organizations and advocates for students, consumers, veterans, service members, faculty and staff, civil rights and college access to Education Secretary John King thanking him for the Department's commitment to fully implement the gainful employment regulation in 2016.

Letter to Acting Education Secretary John King from 51 organizations that advocate on behalf of students, consumers, veterans, faculty and staff, civil rights, and college access responding to the Department of Education's request for comments on the proposed Enterprise Complaint System.

In this report, SETDA continues to advocate for increasing robust access both in and out of school to best prepare all students for college and careers.

A new policy coalition launched on Capitol Hill today to advocate for policies that increase student access to high quality college options in high school including dual enrollment, concurrent enrollment, and early college high schools.

It will then analyze the program's impact, distinctive features, limitations and potential for expansion in order to highlight CAC's instructive value to other college access programs and advocates.

Success Academy: «Build exceptional, world - class public schools that prove children from all backgrounds can succeed in college and life; and advocate across the country to change public policies that prevent so many children from having access to opportunity.»

CAC»S meticulous program design and thoughtful branding make it an instructive model for other college access programs and advocates.

She sat on the Young Advocates» Society Standing Committee for the 2012 - 2015 term, serves on the board of College Montrose Children's Place and is a participant member of the Crown Wardship No - Access Pilot Project and the Child Advocacy Project.