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    Community Colleges Need Digital Preparation for COVID-19

    EdSurge Aug 16, 2020

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Sean Gallagher, at EdSurge, explains how community colleges are becoming more prominent and need better digital preparation for COVID-19. • How can we work to make…

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    How COVID-19 Impacts First-Gen and Minority College Students

    The Hechinger Report Aug 15, 2020

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Ted Mitchell explains how first-gen and minority college students experience disproportionate disruptions to their learning during COVID-19. • How does this threaten to reverse the recent…

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    Expanding Access and Opportunity Through Community-Based Organization and College Partnerships

    The Aspen Institute Aug 13, 2020

    Giving Compass’ Take: • A new report from Aspen College Excellence Program’s American Talent Initiative and College Greenlight illustrates how college access and success community-based organizations (CBOs) can be instrumental partners…

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    How Higher Education is Grooming the Next Generation of Changemakers

    Stanford Social Innovation Review Aug 11, 2020

    Giving Compass’ Take: • CQUniversity is in the process of embedding social innovation education practice across the curriculum and offers insights into its strategic planning.  •  How can other universities learn…

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    How COVID-19 Impacts Student Debt in Low-Income Households

    Brookings Aug 9, 2020

    Giving Compass’ Take: • A study from Brookings indicates the way in which COVID-19 impacts student debt, with disproportionately increasing levels in low-income households. • Why does COVID-19 put ]those…

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    Engaging Students in Higher Education’s Remote Environment

    EdSurge Aug 9, 2020

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Mordecai I. Brownlee, at EdSurge, encourages leaders to innovate higher education’s remote environment to improve inclusion and engagement. • How does higher education’s remote environment currently…

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    Liberal Arts Colleges Can Help Students Develop Soft Skills for Future Workforce

    The Hechinger Report

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Despite the trends of the future workforce pointing toward more technology, employers are also looking for applicants with effective soft skills. Liberal arts colleges may have…

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    Jobless College Students are Mentoring Young People

    The Hechinger Report Jul 31, 2020

    Giving Compass’ Take: • As COVID-19 disrupts college students’ plans of internships and jobs in the summer, many are taking on virtual mentoring opportunities to stay employed.  • There are…

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    US Higher Education Needs to Stop Neglecting Black Women

    Hechinger Report Jul 31, 2020

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Brandy Jones and Janelle Williams, at The Hechinger Report, call for accountability in US higher education, which has been institutionally alienating and neglecting Black women for generations.…

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    Successfully Improving Advising with Technology

    CCRC | MDRC Jul 30, 2020

    Giving Compass’ Take: • CCRC and MDRC share how three schools are using technology to improve their advising process, highlight essential components and challenges of reform. • How can philanthropy help…

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    Can Student Loan Forgiveness Help Stimulate the Economy?

    Urban Institute Jul 29, 2020

    Giving Compass’ Take: • The authors examine the effectiveness of student loan forgiveness programs as an adequate and cost-effective form of stimulus for the economy during the pandemic.  • What…

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    Immigrants with Health Degrees Can’t Find Work During COVID [PDF]

    Migration Policy Institute Jul 27, 2020

    Giving Compass’ Take: • A fact sheet at Migration Policy Institute covers the underutilization of immigrants with health degrees in health care positions despite increased need during COVID-19. • How…

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