Our resources and publications are developed to document and share promising practices and outcomes, practitioner-facing curriculum guides and toolkits, and professional development materials. This page is not exhaustive, if you are looking for a resource that you don’t see here, please reach out to us at nctn.worlded.org. Postsecondary Redesign Ability to Benefit Resource Page This … Continued
Transforming Data into Action describes the accomplishments of the eight colleges that participated in College Success for Single Mothers, a three-year project that NCTN launched in January 2020. The goal of the project was to increase colleges’ capacity to collect data to identify parenting students, with particular attention to single mothers students, and use that data … Continued
College Success for Single Mothers is a three-year project (2020-2022) led by NCTN, in partnership with PERG Learning and Achieving the Dream with funding from ECMC Foundation. The goal of the project was to increase colleges’ capacity to collect data to identify parenting students, with particular attention to single mothers students, and use that data to … Continued
The NCTN is a nationally-recognized leader in developing and promoting the role of college and career navigators and career coaches at the center of programs that foster student persistence and success. Our face-to-face and online training programs for college and career navigators have been offered in 25 states to hundreds of frontline staff and administrators … Continued
Sandy provides technical assistance, training, and project leadership on adult postsecondary success and career pathways initiatives. She works within and across the adult education, workforce development, and community college systems to equip each to better support low-income adults realize their education and career goals. Sandy is co-author of No Matter What Obstacle is Thrown My … Continued
Many working Americans require upskilling to compete and thrive in the 21st Century workplace and attain their educational and career goals (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, 2013). “By 2031, 72 percent of all jobs nationally will require postsecondary education and/or training.” (Center on Education and the Workforce, 2023) , economic growth depends on the … Continued
The stated purpose of the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) is “to strengthen the United States workforce development system through innovation in, and alignment and improvement of, employment, training, and education programs in the United States, and to promote individual and national economic growth.” Through this series of briefs on key policy levers … Continued
What is Ability to Benefit? The Ability to Benefit (ATB) provision in the Higher Education Act gives adults without a high school diploma or equivalent access to federal student aid. A critical dual enrollment strategy, ATB ensures access to postsecondary education for adults who are simultaneously working to complete their high school credential. Unfortunately, ATB … Continued
A network of holistic community and campus support services is critical for fostering the persistence and resiliency needed for college and career success. NCTN assists education and workforce development organizations to design student support program models that leverage and maximize available support and resources. NCTN facilitates customized professional development, produces curriculum and resources, and provides … Continued
Access to affordable, high-quality postsecondary education and training are critical to advancing economic opportunity and quality of life for all. Adults without an associate degree earn incomes of up to 18 percent less than those who earned this degree. The economic pay off for workers with a short-term credential without a degree is also considerable … Continued