Promising Practices

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Reimagining Postsecondary Education

These Promising Practices focus on five key areas outlined by the Postsecondary Value Commission:

Equalize access to increase postsecondary value
Remove affordability as an impediment to postsecondary value
Eliminate completion gaps and strengthen post-college outcomes to ensure postsecondary value
Improve data to expose and address inequitable postsecondary value
Promote social justice by providing equitable postsecondary value

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Check out our Presidential PVC Task Force Talking Points to help guide engaging conversations about your institution’s Promising Practices.

Arkansas State University System

Using Online Programming to Increase Transfers to Universities

This university system created a vigorous online program that mainly serves nontraditional and underrepresented students, particularly individuals who are seeking to transfer to a four-year institution and who live and work hours away from a university.

California State University, Dominguez Hills

Reengaging and Reenrolling Students With Some College and No Degree

This university’s program creates a culture of belonging and acceptance that welcomes the growing number of returning students with some college, no degree who want to complete their coursework and earn their degrees.

California State University, Stanislaus

Creating a Revolving Door of Opportunity

Through Project Rebound, Stanislaus State is helping to demonstrate how higher education can transform the lives of formerly incarcerated individuals so they can become productive and positive members of the community.

California State University, Stanislaus

Increasing Graduation Rates by Meeting Students’ Basic Needs

Mounting evidence of how food, housing, and financial insecurities are impacting student graduation rates spurred this university into action. It created a program that responds to students’ basic needs, resulting in more students completing their degree journeys.

Central Connecticut State University

Success Central: Supporting Underrepresented Students Through Peer Coaching

To combat the decline in retention and graduation rates among underrepresented student groups in postsecondary education, this university offers an innovative peer-coaching initiative in which mentors address mentees’ unique challenges and support their academic and personal accomplishments.

Central State University

Boosting Reenrollment With Holistic Academic Strategy

After learning that declining reenrollment was linked to rising rates of academic probation and academic suspension, this university created a program that offers a success skills course, peer mentorship, and academic support to help students achieve good standing and complete their degree journeys.

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Chicago State University

Growing a Stronger Community From High School Through Career Placement

This university is investing in its surrounding community with a comprehensive program that supports and enriches underrepresented students from dual-enrollment courses in high schools to holistic programs and scholarships in college to career placement in positions with sustainable wages upon graduation.

Colorado State University – Pueblo

Creating a College-Bound Culture for Underserved High School Students

To make higher education more accessible, this university partnered with area school districts to create centers that helped high school students from communities of color as well as first-generation students negotiate the application process and increase enrollment in universities and college.