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.

Stockton University

University Partners With Businesses for Enriching Summer Work Experience

A university uses the relationship-building experience from its community engagement efforts to build a summer workforce development program that benefits the local economy and university students predominantly representing underserved populations.

Sul Ross State University

Growing Enthusiasm for STEM Through Engaging Teachers and Instruction

Using a multidisciplinary approach, this university is building a pipeline of teachers in the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) disciplines from underrepresented populations. It is also inspiring and educating the next generation of STEM students by bringing developments in the sciences and math to the Latinx and Indigenous communities.

Texas A&M University-San Antonio

Developing Career-Ready and Community-Minded Students Is the Mays Center Mission

The Mays Center for Experiential Learning and Community Engagement provides enhanced learning opportunities and access to resources and relationships in order to develop students into career-ready and community-minded graduates. Whether you are a student, faculty or staff member, alumni, a nonprofit community partner, or an employer looking to recruit talent for your organization, the Mays Center for Experiential Learning and Community Engagement has something for you.

University of Maryland Eastern Shore

Building a Pipeline of Diverse Teachers for the Next Generation of K–12 Students

To counter the small percentage of men of color in the education field, this university professor created an enterprising, vigorous program to support the pursuit of their degree and their profession as teacher leaders for the next generation of increasingly diverse students.

University of Maryland Eastern Shore

Using a Biomedical Research Pathway to Diversify STEM Fields

UMES partners with a local school district to introduce students from underrepresented minority communities to biomedical research ideas and methodologies as a way of building diversity in STEM careers.

University of North Georgia

Mentoring Program Builds Relationships to Inspire First-Generation Students

This university strategically and intentionally created a mentoring program that fills the gaps hindering first-generation students from pursuing and completing their degree-seeking path in higher education.

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University of Northern Iowa

Forging Pathways to High-Demand Careers

Building and retaining a professional workforce benefits from the collaborative efforts of education at the secondary and postsecondary levels.

University of Northern Iowa

Personalized Partnership Helps Nontraditional Students Achieve Bachelor’s Degrees

Distance-learning partnerships in higher education level the academic playing field for nontraditional and place-bound students who want to earn bachelor’s degrees.

University of South Carolina Upstate

‘Moving Up’ Students With Push for Career Readiness

This university’s focus on social mobility and a culture of success for all students resulted in a new initiative that pulls together faculty, staff, and employers to concentrate on career readiness to prepare the students for success now and in the future.

University of Southern Indiana

Fortifying a Workforce for the Future

Through an intensive initiative that enhances an existing state free-tuition program, this university supports students in middle and high school as they prepare for college to meet the demands of a more dynamic, diverse workforce.

Washington State University Tri-Cities

Making University Life Fun While Supporting Student Success

A university incentivizes student participation in campus groups, organizations, activities, and events in the hopes of improving retention and graduation rates as well as academic performance among students, particularly first-generation and minority students.

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