Sentences with phrase «early college experience»

Colleges and universities should partner with secondary schools to provide college and career planning guidance as well as early college experiences.

Specifically, Ashley led the Department's efforts to expand access to early college experiences for over 20,000 low - income students per year.

We also saw advanced placement and early college experience enrollments increase by 127 percent since 2010 - 11 and graduation rates increase by 4.5 percent last year alone.

At ACE Academy we provide motivated, focused, and diligent students the opportunity to engage in Early College experiences.

Students are able to earn college credit through the University of Connecticut Early College Experience program by applying to take courses at the high school that can be transferred to applicable schools.

«I was afraid that I would walk in my front door, and they would all be sitting there,» she says, of the fear that marred her earliest college experiences.

Preliminary research on successful STEM schools indicates that cultivating partnerships with industry, higher education, nonprofits, museums, and research centers is important for engaging students in STEM learning through internships, mentorships, interdisciplinary project - based learning, and early college experiences (Means, 2008; National Research Council, 2011).

Every student had an early college experience.

Nicole and James both used the early college experience to meet their needs for a more challenging academic environment but chose different patterns of early college attendance based on individual factors.

ACE Academy has a unique partnership with the Iron and Washington County School Districts which provides an early college experience without robbing students of a «normal» high school experience.

As the early college experience is made available to a broader range of students — including many who are less academically prepared than traditional dually enrolled students — Pour says it's essential that community colleges create plans to help those students develop the necessary skills for success.