National College Attainment Network
Project Title
As a final general support grant
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
The National College Attainment Network s (NCAN) builds, strengthens, and empowers education communities and stakeholders to close gaps in postsecondary attainment for all students. The more than two million students served by 500+ NCAN members demonstrate significantly higher rates of postsecondary enrollment and graduation. NCAN provides professional development, networking, benchmarking, tools, and news so organizations can effectively deliver college access and success services. With Corporation support NCAN membership grew by 24% over the last five years. Continued support will further strengthen member services/professional development/capacity-building resources to help NCAN members keep first-generation college students, students of color, and low-income students on the pathway to postsecondary access and success.
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For continued support for professional development and capacity building for the postsecondary access and success field
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
24 months
Description
The National College Attainment Network’s (NCAN) mission is to build, strengthen, and empower education communities and stakeholders to close equity gaps in postsecondary attainment for all students. Students served by NCAN members outperform other low-income students in enrolling in and graduating from postsecondary. However, the COVID-19 pandemic and related economic crisis have set back years of hard-won progress in raising postsecondary enrollment and attainment rates for students. NCAN provides professional development, networking, benchmarking, tools, and news so that organizations can deliver college access and success services more effectively. With continued Corporation support NCAN will strengthen member services/professional development/capacity-building resources to help members keep students of color and students from low-income backgrounds on the pathway to postsecondary access and success.
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For providing information, tools, and online training to high schools and college access organizations to improve these supports for high school students
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
24 months
Description
The National College Attainment Network’s (NCAN) mission is to build, strengthen, and empower education communities and stakeholders to close equity gaps in postsecondary attainment for all students. Students served by NCAN members outperform other low-income students in enrolling in and graduating from postsecondary. NCAN provides professional development, networking, benchmarking, tools, and news so that organizations can deliver college access and success services more effectively. The COVID-19 pandemic upended not just how NCAN member organizations serve students, but also the nature of both the advice students need and the processes related to postsecondary planning, transition, and persistence. NCAN has experienced a surge in access to member services as organizations seek to understand the pandemic’s effects, and how to operate one hundred percent virtually. With the Corporation’s support NCAN will strengthen member services/capacity building resources to help members keep students of color and students from low-income backgrounds on the pathway to postsecondary attainment.
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For support of an initiative to increase cross-sector engagement to close the postsecondary equity gap
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
12 months
Description
National College Access Network’s (NCAN) mission is to build, strengthen, and empower education communities and stakeholders to close equity gaps in postsecondary attainment for all students. Students served by NCAN members regularly outperform other low-income students in enrolling in and graduating from postsecondary. NCAN provides professional development, networking, benchmarking, tools, and news from the field so that organizations can deliver college access and success services more effectively. NCAN also advocates at the national level for policies to improve access and success. Support from the Corporation will allow NCAN to drive broader participation from key sectors in closing the equity gap in postsecondary outcomes. This project will help NCAN work across the K-12/higher education pipeline and across multiple sectors to generate leadership buy-in, collect and share relevant data, change policies, provide funding, and deliver/coordinate evidence-based support to students. NCAN will identify exemplar communities, new partners and champions, and tools and resources for engagement with more audiences beyond 2020.