In 2017, New Profit, John Legend’s FREEAMERICA, and Bank of America teamed up to take on this challenge and launch Unlocked Futures, an accelerator program with two key areas of…
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Click here for more.Giving Compass’ Take: • Duquesne Professor Robert Sroufe discusses the importance of engaging business students in addressing climate change and offers ways to make it happen. • How can funders help business…
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Click here for more.Giving Compass’ Take: • Smithsonian magazine notes that, since the Great Recession, the number of history majors at colleges and universities has dropped by more than 30 percent, mainly due…
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Click here for more.Giving Compass’ Take: • The Hechinger Report gives details about a special program at Western Michigan University and other colleges that have started to help foster youth earn degrees. •…
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Click here for more.Giving Compass’ Take: • This EdSurge post reports on the importance of higher education institutions developing ways to meet students where they are on the technology side, especially in workforce…
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Click here for more.Giving Compass’ Take: • Education, particularly higher education, is not the great equalizer and wealth distribution as well as family income are contributing factors to getting a bachelor’s degree. • How can…
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Click here for more.Giving Compass’ Take: · Loïck Roche at The Hechinger Report explains why universities around the world should be doing more to help and support refugees, and how a European school is…
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Click here for more.Giving Compass’ Take: • Student loans have become an all too common crisis in America and other parts of the globe. The author breaks down how to solve this crisis…
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Click here for more.Giving Compass’ Take: · Tara García Mathewson discusses the need for change in higher education and how to make it more relevant and worthwhile. · How can colleges and universities…
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Click here for more.Giving Compass’ Take: • Almost 60 percent of New York students who graduated last year continued their education, and the state also saw an increase in college readiness. • How has education…
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Click here for more.Giving Compass’ Take: • David Cantor reports that as college degrees become increasingly common and decreasingly valuable, prep schools are working to prepare students for employment without college degrees. • How…
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Click here for more.Giving Compass’ Take: • Holly Kuzmich argues that the middle class needs innovative, rather than free, college to grow and succeed. • How can funders help colleges to innovate to better…