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Student Outcomes Beyond Completion: National Findings From the 2021 Strada Alumni Survey

Students can see the high costs of education, but a clear and predictable career path is more opaque in an ever-shifting labor market transformed by remote work, gig work, outsourcing, automation, artificial intelligence, and global supply chains.

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Strada, Taskforce on Higher Education and Opportunity launch $10 million challenge

​​The grant competition seeks to connect learning with employment for first-generation students, those who struggle to afford education, and students of color.

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How the HBCU experience builds leaders

Roslyn Clark Artis grew up in southern West Virginia, the only African American in her graduating class. The daughter of a coal miner, she dreamed of becoming a lawyer and applied to every public university in her home state, hoping to find an affordable route to college.

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28 HBCUs join ambitious initiative to connect students’ education and aspirations

A $25 million grant from Strada taps the collective experience and insights of HBCU leaders to scale experiential learning and leadership development within the college experience.

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Listening to Recent High School Grads

Steep declines in undergraduate enrollment during 2020 and 2021 threaten to widen existing equity gaps in college completion and career opportunities.

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Examining the Value of Nondegree Credentials

Nondegree credentials have been growing rapidly for decades. During the COVID-19 economic crisis, interest in nondegree credentials and skills training options was especially high. Questions about their quality and value, however, remain.

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Reconnecting Recent High School Graduates With Their Education Aspirations

The high school classes of 2020 and 2021 have endured massive disruption to their education.

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Reconnecting to College for the High School Classes of 2020, 2021

In order to inform solutions for how to reconnect with young adults whose education plans have been disrupted, Strada Education Network is conducting a multiphase research study with high school graduates from 2020 and 2021.

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Back to Class

The pandemic has led to a national crisis of widespread disruption to both work and education for millions of adults in the U.S., especially those from historically marginalized groups.

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Trends in Education Plans

Already, an estimated 28 million Americans have canceled education plans, results from the fifth week of this nationally representative survey* show.

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Are Student Loans Worth It?

Over the past 15 years, the number of student loan recipients has increased by 51 percent and the debt associated with those loans has more than doubled.

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Powering Purpose

Invest now in community colleges to fuel economic opportunity.

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Building the data infrastructure for Workforce Pell: A roadmap for states and institutions

The newly launched Model Workforce Pell Data Framework offers a practical roadmap for a robust data infrastructure aligned across education and workforce systems.

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How employers can embrace the time-tested benefits of work-based learning

The practice of learning on the job has been around for centuries, but its capacity to prepare learners for the workforce and expose businesses to emerging talent is generating modern excitement.

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How Mississippi made locally led coaching happen statewide

With dedicated career coaches in 90 percent of its public high schools, the state connects learners with information about education pathways to high-demand, high-wage jobs.

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Celebrating the mentors who coached, cheered, and cajoled us in our journeys

For January’s National Mentoring Month, Strada staff reflected on how mentors in all their forms have shaped our journeys as students and professionals.

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Class of 2025 includes first cohort of Strada Scholars

This year the Strada HBCU Initiative celebrates its fourth year — a milestone that includes the graduation of many students in the first cohort of Strada Scholars.

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10 elements for state data systems

Strada worked closely with state data agencies and higher education executives to identify 10 critical elements that contribute to the capacity of state data systems.

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