Building Cities by Degrees: Lessons on Increasing College Completion from Six Talent Dividend Cities

Autor/inn/en	Rutschow, Elizabeth Zachry; Aceves, Aurelia De La Rosa; Taketa, Jessica
Institution	MDRC
Titel	Building Cities by Degrees: Lessons on Increasing College Completion from Six Talent Dividend Cities
Quelle	(2017), (82 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Municipalities; Competition; Graduation Rate; College Graduates; Educational Attainment; Achievement Gap; Low Income Students; Minority Group Students; College Students; Context Effect; Partnerships in Education; Intervention; College School Cooperation; School Business Relationship; Student Financial Aid; Student Personnel Services; Ohio; South Carolina; Nebraska (Omaha); Florida (Orlando); Oregon (Portland); Virginia (Richmond) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Magistrat; Wettkampf; Hochschulabsolvent; Hochschulabsolventin; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Collegestudent; Hochschulpartnerschaft; Finanzielle Beihilfe; Studienfinanzierung; Studienförderung
Abstract	While completion of a college credential is a critical step toward increasing one's viability in today's labor market, only about 40 percent of Americans earn an associate's or bachelor's degree by age 27. Many policymakers, education leaders, and philanthropic organizations have focused on improving graduation rates. In 2011, the Kresge Foundation sought to build on this work by launching the National Talent Dividend $1 Million Prize Competition. Leaders of the initiative posited that a city's per capita income would rise as the number of degree holders rose, and the contest promised to award $1 million to the city with the greatest proportional increase in its college degree completion over a four-year period. Given the strong performance of many cities in the competition, the Kresge Foundation was interested in learning which particular strategies may have been influential in their postsecondary gains and in sharing potential lessons from the Talent Dividend work with the larger field. This case study examines the efforts of six of the top cities in the competition (Akron; Columbia, South Carolina; Omaha, Nebraska; Orlando, Florida; Portland, Oregon; and Richmond, Virginia) in an effort to build a set of hypotheses around the activities that may have helped these cities increase degree attainment. In examining the efforts of multiple institutions to raise graduation rates within their city, this study departs from higher education research that tends to focus on individual colleges. And because three colleges in the case study cities have been among the nation's most successful in decreasing achievement gaps between low-income and traditionally underrepresented minority students and their more wealthy, white peers, the research also focuses on identifying which approaches might be particularly important in closing such gaps. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01