What Students Want
Students and workers pursuing non-degree pathways are navigating higher education systems not designed with their realities in mind. In our latest brief, "What Students Want: Students’ Experiences and the Implications of Enhanced Holistic Supports for Non-Degree Pathways," we share insights from our Student Advisory Council on the supports they need to succeed
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It is time to modernize higher education policies to ensure equitable college access, completion, and connection to quality careers that lead to economic mobility—and help businesses thrive by training talented workers that can fill in-demand jobs. We must center students' lived experience and expertise in our policy change efforts to begin to redress structural racism in our education and training systems and to make college accessible to all people, particularly those who have faced systemic barriers to educational opportunity.
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It's time to make college work for working people
Voters support the need to modernize higher education policies to ensure equitable college access, completion, and connection to quality careers that lead to economic mobility—and help businesses thrive by training talented workers that can fill in-demand jobs.
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Expanding College & Career Possibilities: A Policy Action Initiative
Expanding College & Career Possibilities: A Policy Action Initiative is a dynamic peer learning and policy action community where skills advocates in 20 states will engage in peer learning, policy action labs, and access tailored technical assistance and research and promotion – all with the goal of increasing college affordability, holistic supports, and completion of quality non-degree credentials that offer pathways to quality careers and further education.
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Amplifying Student Voices: Meet NSC’s new Student Advisory Council
NSC’s Making College Work campaign aims to transform postsecondary education by driving policy change that widens the path to postsecondary education, begins to redress structural racism in our education and training systems, and better serve students, employers, and our economy.
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See what the experts and organizations across all of NSC's networks are doing to make college work for working people, business, and our economy.
