Working to Increase Graduation Rates at Community Colleges: The Role for the K-12 System
Posted by Philadelphia Education Fund on March 26, 2018
Join us for breakfast on Thursday, April 5th
as we discuss:
Working to Increase Graduation Rates at Community Colleges: The Role for the K-12 System
Approximately, 6.2 million students are enrolled in two-year community colleges. This enrollment figure represents 36 percent of all undergraduate students in the United States.
According to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, the six-year completion rate for students in these programs hovers somewhere between 39 to 57 percent – compared to 59 to 66 percent at four-year colleges and universities.
What are we to make of these statistics? Is this good? Is this bad? With more than 30,000 Philadelphia students currently enrolled in community college and thousands of new students enrolling every year, what obligations fall to the K-12 system in preparing students for post-secondary success and what supports are needed at community colleges to help students persist?
At this April’s Education First Compact, we invite you to hear from and dialogue with researchers and practitioners who are working across the K-16 spectrum of education to innovate solutions, define strategies, partner more intentionally with the K-12 system, and increase post-secondary completion rates through community colleges.
PRESENTERS
Fateama Fulmore
Director, High School Supports
School District of Philadelphia
Judith Gay
Vice President, Academic Affairs
Community College of Philadelphia
Paul Harrington
Director, Center for Labor Markets and Policy
Drexel University
Paula Umaña
Project Director
Single Stop
MODERATOR
Farah Jimenez
President and CEO
Philadelphia Education Fund
Thursday, April 5, 2018
7:45 – 10:00 am
FREE Breakfast and Registration
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Location:
String Theory School – Vine Campus
Auditorium
1600 Vine Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
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