Stories
Culturally Sustaining Practices: Practitioner Perspectives & Student Stories
Hear from practitioners about why this work matters to them and the insights they’ve gained from it. Be inspired by adult learners at REACH colleges as they sha...
Stories
Bundled and Sequenced Supports: Practitioner Perspectives & Student Stories
Hear from practitioners about why this work matters to them and the insights they’ve gained from it. Be inspired by adult learners at REACH colleges as they sha...
Stories
Credentials to Degrees Pathways: Practitioner Perspectives & Student Stories
Hear from practitioners about why this work matters to them and the insights they’ve gained from it. Be inspired by adult learners at REACH colleges as they sha...
REACH Brief
Building Equitable Pathways to Careers: A toolkit inspired by a...
By designing for adult learners, colleges can ensure that, wherever adult students begin in the California Community Colleges system, they have a transparent pa...
Recorded Webinar
Recruiting and Retaining Faculty and Staff of Color
Dr. Eboni Zamani-Gallaher of the University of Pittsburgh presents on the needs, nuances, and challenges of recruiting and retaining faculty and staff of color.
Recorded Webinar
Real Estate Careers Pathways, Rio Hondo Community College
Rio Hondo's noncredit Real Estate courses are offered at no tuition cost to students. The curriculum is sponsored by the California State Department of Real Est...
Recorded Webinar
Equitable Marketing Practices for Adults of Color
This presentation from Friday, the REACH Collaborative's communications partner, looks at how to engage current students and utilize their input, create compell...
Press Release
Continued Growth in Demand Seen for VCCS Workforce Training
Virginia’s Community Colleges hosted its Hire Education Conference in December. The three-day conference attracted 300 workforce educators and business partners...
Recorded Webinar
Centering Adult Learners of Color: Pathways, Supports, Practices
Centering adult learners of color makes education better for everyone. Partners supporting the REACH Collaborative presented resources and strategies for implem...
Podcast
Promoting Racial Equity in Credentialing Pathways for Adult Learners of...
In this podcast series our equity champion consultants dive deeper into culturally sustaining practices and guided pathways.
REACH Brief
Re-imagining What Works for Adult Learners of Color
An introduction to the REACH Collaborative, the focus of the effort, and the three pillars that drive the work.
REACH Brief
Credentials to Degrees Pathways
A dive into the first pillar of the REACH Framework: How the REACH states are developing academic pathways of credentials in sequences that align with associate...
REACH Brief
Bundled and Sequenced Supports
A closer look at the second pillar of the REACH framework: the importance of bundling and sequencing supports to understand and address the many complexities of...
REACH Brief
Culturally Sustaining Practices
What are culturally sustaining practices and why do they matter in redesigning systems that value and empower adult students of color?
Recorded Webinar
Capturing Student Voice to Meet the Needs of Racially Minoritized...
A real understanding of the needs of adult students of color and an ability to support those needs requires direct insights and input. Watch this recorded prese...
Recorded Webinar
Community Cultural Wealth
Meeting adult students of color where they are now means learning where they come from and how it informs their goals and motivations. Watch a recorded presenta...
Recorded Webinar
Data & Equity
Data analysis is an important part of creating effective pathways for adult students of color, but it is essential to apply an equity lens to that process. Watc...
Recorded Webinar
Equity and Inclusion in Credit for Prior Learning
Adult students of color bring a wealth of earned experience to college with them, but too often, established processes for assessing learning fail to capture th...
Recorded Webinar
Learning Recognition: Integrating Credit for Prior Learning Into Credit
In developing effective Credential to Degree Pathways for adult students of color, colleges should offer those students credit for the knowledge and skills they...
Recorded Webinar
Learning Recognition: Messaging and Communicating CPL Opportunites
For adult students of color to take advantage of Credit for Prior Learning opportunities, they need to understand what CPL is and why it matters to them. Watch ...
REACH Brief
Investment in the Future: BIPOC/Adult Education, Skills …
The analysis delves into the economic implications of achieving workforce diversity in North Carolina's private sector and higher education, emphasizing the sig...
REACH Brief
Building Inclusive Infrastructure to Support the Success …
Within the State University of New York's community college system in New York, BIPOC students accounted for approximately 30% of the total student body, and ov...
REACH Brief
How Board of Trustee Members Advance an Equity-Minded …
The COVID-19 pandemic decreased student enrollment, especially among students of color, at Texas community colleges. Leaders are tackling this with the REACH Ne...
REACH Brief
Starting with Freedom in Mind: Moving Beyond Diversity to …
Traditional measures of student success, like job placement and transfer, have value but fall short in preparing students to challenge systems perpetuating comm...
REACH Brief
Are Community Colleges in Colorado Equity-ready?
Colorado has achieved significant progress in offering resources to enhance the awareness of college and university staff and faculty. Nevertheless, for genuine...
REACH Brief
Building a Leadership Blueprint for Racial Equity for Adult …
A focus on racial equity in community colleges often centers around promoting diversity to enhance the learning environment, incorporate critical race theory in...
Recorded Webinar
Leveraging Public Programs to Support Adult Student Success
Far too often, adult students of color face deal with basic needs challenges that jeopardize their success in the classroom. Offering supports that will help th...
Press Release
Adult Students and Students of Color Hardest Hit by …
California community colleges are joining a new national effort to help more adults of color gain credentials and degrees to close gaps in graduation rates and ...
Press Release
The North Carolina Community College System’s …
The North Carolina Community College System (NCCCS) announced a partnership with the Lumina Foundation to join the Racial Equity for Adult Credentials in Higher...
Press Release
Colorado Joins National Collaborative Aimed at Putting …
Colorado community colleges will provide more aid and resources for their older students, better track their college success, and create degree programs leading...
Press Release
Community Colleges in Six States Join National Effort to …
Education and training after high school, long known to be a vehicle for economic mobility, will play a pivotal role in our recovery, but only if that promise i...
Press Release
Colorado Community Colleges Selected by Lumina Foundation …
Colorado Community College System (CCCS) will work to help Black, Hispanic, Latino, and Native American adults earn credentials through all 13 of its colleges. ...
Press Release
Texas Community Colleges Selected by Lumina Foundation …
48 Texas community colleges will create pathways from short-term credentials to associate degree programs, focusing on overcoming barriers for adults of color. ...
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