Search Tips:

Search Tip 1: Searching the Entire Site:
In the blue bar near the top of each page is a search box that provides a convenient way to search all the Pathways to College Network's Libraries and the entire Pathways' website at once using a word or word combination of your choice. Enter search words into the blue bar. Click on "Search Site" (results will include the first 5 or fewer items relevant to your search from each library and the general site listed in 4 sections). To see additional items, click on "View All Results" in any section for which 5 items are listed.
Search Tip 2: Using the Research Studies Library:
You can either “browse” or “search” the library. Browsing allows you to see all the items related to a topic, one or more key words, or a combination of both. Searching allows you to find a specific document. • Browse a topic by selecting “Show All Items in Topic” to generate a listing of all of the catalogued items for that topic, or by selecting a keyword or any combination of keywords and clicking on “Show Keyword Items.” More keyword selections yields more results (an “OR” search). • Perform a Keyword Search from the Keyword Search Page. On the Research Studies page, click on “Search by one or multiple keywords.” Select a keyword to find items associated with that keyword or select multiple keywords to find items associated with all keywords. Note: for this search, more keywords produce fewer results (an “AND” search). Click on the Search button. The results of a keyword search are listed as a bibliography in alphabetical order by author. If a single keyword search produces too many results, try adding a second or third keyword. • To print search results, click on the browser’s print icon, go to the print menu, or press CTRL/p. • To send search results to an email address, click on the check boxes of the desired records in your search results bibliography, enter an email address in the text box, and click on “Email Selected Records.” Note: you may send to multiple addresses by separating email addresses with a comma. • “Smart Search” is a search strategy that intelligently finds items associated with the words or phrases you enter in the Search box. “Description” finds words you enter in the Search box in the short paragraph describing each item in the library.
Search Tip 3: Using the College Access and Success State Data Library:
• On the Home page, click on a state to go directly to data for that state or use the "Find Selected State Data" tool to locate a state and a specific information category. • For each state, you may browse the information categories in the left navigation area and select resources from any category. • You may search the state sites by entering the desired text in the Search box at the top of the page and clicking "Search".
Search Tip 4: Using the College Planning Resources:
• Conduct a word search for materials in the Directory by entering text in the Search box pertaining to the document title, description, or organization that produced the material. • Keyword search: using the 6 sets of keywords, you may use as many keywords as you wish to define your search. We recommend selecting an audience, content keyword, and any other keywords that could help to define what you seek.

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News from the Pathways to College Network January 2010

2010-01-19

News
from the Pathways to College Network
New Pathways to College Website
We are very pleased to announce the launch of the new Pathways to College (Pathways) website: . The Pathways website provides easy access to research-based best practices, policies and resources for improving college access and success for underserved students. The website supports three online libraries and an expanding set of tools targeted to practitioners, policymakers, and researchers, working in college access and success issues. We are thrilled to share this valuable resource with you and hope you turn to it to support your own work to increase educational opportunities for underserved students.

Pathways' online libraries and tools include: PCN Online Library; College Planning Resources; College Access and Success State Data; College Access Marketing (CAM); College Readiness for All Toolbox; National College Access Program Directory; State Policy Inventory Database Online (SPIDO). Links to these sites will be included in every newsletter along the left-hand side of the screen.
Pathways Welcomes New Staff Member
Pathways is pleased to welcome Anne Bowles, who joined IHEP this month as a Policy and Outreach Associate. Ms. Bowles works directly to support the Pathways to College Network. Prior to joining IHEP, Ms. Bowles served as a Program Associate with Pathways' partner, the American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF), where she co-authored a compendium on the benefits of expanded learning opportunities for older youth: Learning Around the Clock. From 2005-2008, Ms. Bowles taught Middle School Social Studies in the New York City Public Schools through Teach For America (TFA). She earned her BA in Sociology from the University of Michigan and her MS in Education from Pace University in New York City.
From the Field:
Pathways Partners Making a Difference
AACC Report on Recession Community College Enrollment "Surge"
From the Executive Summary:"In an attempt to better understand how community colleges responded to the recent economic maelstrom, the American Association of Community Colleges surveyed its member institutions to examine changes in enrollment, local factors contributing to enrollment shifts, and the lessons learned from their experiences." Get the report here.
ECS Report out: Revving the Education Engine
From the Education Commision of the States website: "This new ECS paper engages education, policy and workforce leaders to explore how to effectively align education, workforce and economic development policy to meet state and regional workforce needs. ... The paper provides examples of promising policies and programs states are employing to create greater alignment, as well as practical steps that state leaders can take in their states to fully leverage their education assets to meet state workforce and economic development goals." Get the report here.
NCAN Announces 13 New Member Organizations
From the announcement: "The National College Access Network is pleased to announce the addition of 13 new members to the organization. NCAN's roster extends to over 230 organizations in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, Micronesia, and Canada, all dedicated to the belief that every young person should be able to attain a college education." Among the new member organizations are Scholarship America and the DC chapter of EnvironMentors.
New Logo for CCSSO
From the Dec. 17, 2009 press release:""This logo provides a more contemporary look; illustrates a more action-oriented agenda; and reflects the coming together of states."
AAC&U Releases National Employers Survey Findings
January 20, 2010, American Colleges and Universities will release findings from a new national survey of employers describing their views of college learning in the wake of the economic downturn. See selected findings below and watch for the full report scheduled for release at 2 p.m. on January 20, 2010.
Reports and Resources
The Education Trust's New Gap Analysis
From the press release:"As state leaders put the finishing touches on applications for Race to the Top (RTT) funding, a new Ed Trust analysis of achievement gaps shows some states may be better positioned for higher scores on their grant applications. ... Using state NAEP data from all four of these perspectives, the report found that Delaware, Florida, Massachusetts, Texas, and Vermont are top states. But it also found that wide gaps could spell failure for applications from Arizona, California, Michigan, Mississippi, and Rhode Island."
2010 Education Appropriations Guide From New America Foundation
The New America Foundation has released an issue brief which is, according to its website, "intended to be a helpful guide to the appropriations process and recently enacted fiscal year 2010 education funding." The brief includes tables comparing the most recent appropriations to past years, the president's budget request and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
NASH/EdTrust Access to Success Baseline Report Available
In 2007 the National Association of System Heads began a voluntary association committed to "close the historic gaps in college access and success between students of different racial and economic backgrounds," according to the NASH Access to Success website. The baseline report covers more than three million students-almost 40 percent of undergraduates attending public four-year colleges and universities and 20 percent of those attending all public two-year and four-year colleges. Get the report here.
French President Calls on Universities to Expand Access and Success
The "grand ecoles," small, highly selective French Universities, once drew one-in-three of their students from low-income families; now they draw only one-in-ten. President Nicolas Sarkozy has called on the elite schools to expand access, but there's been pushback from the institutions. Read the Associated Press article here.
Report Identifies 25 HSIs "potential exemplars" in STEM
The University of Southern California's Center for Urban Education has released the results of a three-year National Science Foundation-Funded Study. The report discusses 25 Hispanic Serving Institutions which have decreased or eliminated the gaps between Latina/Latino bachelor degree holders in STEM fields and non-Latina/Latino degree holders.
 
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