Browsing by Author "Davis, Leanne"

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    Innovative Strategies to Close Postsecondary Attainment Gaps: Building Collaborative Partnerships through the Stakeholder Engagement Process
    Quintanilla, Andres; Davis, Leanne; Ajinkya, Julie (Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA, 2020-03-01)
    This report takes a deep dive into the southeast Indiana region to examine efforts by the Community Education Coalition (CEC) to connect regional leaders across sectors through a framework known as the Stakeholder Engagement Process. By intentionally engaging a diverse set of community stakeholders, CEC ensures that the collaboration pursues strategies and interventions that lead to educational and economic growth for all populations, including those who have been historically underserved. Following the interview portion of the guidebook, the authors provide a Stakeholder Equity Assessment Tool [on page 12] to enable other communities interested in forming similarly effective collaborations to apply an equity lens when identifying and engaging diverse community partners to collectively implement strategies to increase attainment in their region.
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    Innovative Strategies to Close Postsecondary Attainment Gaps: Institutional Debt-Forgiveness Programs
    Ajinkya, Julie; Davis, Leanne; Salanger, Connor (The Institute for Higher Education Policy, 2019-04-01)
    Nationwide, 35 million adults have earned some college credits, but have yet to earn a degree. Many of these students struggle to afford the growing cost of postsecondary education and are unable to complete their degrees because of financial holds on their institutional accounts. These holds can be enormous barriers for today’s students, especially low-income students and students of color – discouraging them from remaining on the pathway to completion, while also preventing returning students from enrolling to complete a degree.   This report features an interview with leaders at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, who share details about the innovative debt-forgiveness program they implemented as a reenrollment strategy for students who stopped out of their university without completing a degree.