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Notes from the Field
Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Launches National College Advising Corps with National College Access Network and UNC-Chapel Hill
The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation has awarded ten $1 million grants to universities in nine states to create the National College Advising Corps. The National College Access Network and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are overseeing this initiative. Participating colleges will enlist and train college seniors to work as college advisors for one to two years following graduation. Advisors will assist low-income high school students through the college application process. The project follows in the tradition of AmeriCorps and is based upon a successful model created by the University of Virginia.
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Reports and Resources
Going to the Source: A Practical Way to Simplify the FAFSA
This report from The Institute for College Access and Success (TICAS) recommends simplifying the FAFSA process by allowing financial aid applicants to ask the IRS to provide relevant income data directly to the U.S. Department of Education. This approach would decrease the length and complexity of the application form, reduce the possibility for errors, and decrease the administrative burden of data verification that currently falls on colleges and universities.
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College Learning for the New Global Century
This report from the Association of American Colleges & Universities discusses the aims and outcomes of a twenty-first century college education based on the skills that the current economic and international environment demand of college graduates. The report underscores that a policy commitment to expanded access to college must be anchored in an equally strong commitment to educational excellence.
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Getting There – and Beyond: Building a Culture of College-going in High Schools
This report from the USC Center for Higher Education Policy Analysis argues that high school students are best served by schools with a strong college culture that cultivates aspirations and behaviors conducive to preparing for and enrolling in college. It discusses the key elements of a college-going culture, common challenges to building and sustaining such a culture, and how a school can strengthen its college-going culture.
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The Evaluation Exchange: Advocacy and Policy Change
This issue of the Harvard Family Research Project’s "Evaluation Exchange" offers a series of articles about the unique challenges in evaluating advocacy and policy change efforts. Topics include: prospective evaluation, theory-based evaluation, use of logic models, evaluation of social media, constituency building, and how to assess networks.
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