The Retention Project

07/13/2012

The AmeriCorps Retention Project wants to change this!

http://www.nwpr.org/post/federal-report-northwest-college-completion-rates-stall

Young adults in the Pacific Northwest are becoming less likely to hold college degrees, according to a federal report released Thursday.

07/12/2012

Reading helps retention!

Created in 1993, the Corporation for National Service is a public-private partnership that engages Americans of all ages in service through three national service initiatives - AmeriCorps, which includes more than 600 local and national programs, AmeriCorps*VISTA, and AmeriCorps*NCCC; the National S...

07/10/2012

07/10/2012

http://mentoringsymposium-eorg.eventbrite.com/

Summer Symposium on Mentoring Research Friday, July 27, 2012 Portland State University, Lincoln Performance Hall The PSU Center for Interdisciplinary Mentoring Research is proud to present the Summer Symposium on Mentoring Research. This special one-day symposium is for a national audience of pro...

07/10/2012

If you're stumped on how to capture your nonprofit in an image, here are 6 ideas for you to try!

07/10/2012

http://seattle.broadwayworld.com/article/Seattle-Centers-Next-50-Learning-Month-Explores-Future-of-Education-August-2012-20120704 #

How do we expand perspectives around learning, education, culture and environment so that people of all ages and backgrounds can realize their intrinsic passions to learn and grow? The Next Fifty invites the community to explore how we might evolve approaches and systems of learning in the 21st cent...

07/09/2012

This week, the foundation unveiled a suite of grants that will help address some of the sector’s seemingly intractable problems: skyrocketing tuition, persistently low completion rates, continued budget cuts and diminished seat capacity. Totaling $9 million, these grants support a range of options t...

07/05/2012

Mentoring is a lifetime investment in a child and one that is critically important today to prevent school dropout, improve self-esteem and combat bullying in America's schools and online.

07/03/2012

One of our favorite mentoring advocates, Eric Liu speaking...
http://www.whitehouse.gov/live/white-house-social-enterprise-and-opportunity-series-forum-citizen-based-innovation

06/29/2012

Mentoring can help! Do you have an AmeriCorps Retention Project at your campus?
http://www.publicagenda.org/blogs/the-completion-crisis-what-students-have-say

We've all heard and read the stats: Only 4 in 10 young Americans earn a higher education credential by the time they are 35. Add to that our unsustainable student debt situation, and higher education in this country just looks bleaker and bleaker.

06/29/2012

http://www.civitaslearning.com/press/infographics/

The United States used to lead the world in educational attainment. We now rank 16th. Our low college graduation rates are not keeping pace globally or meet workforce demands over the next decade-plus, and are creating serious economic problems today. ...

06/27/2012

WASHINGTON -- Public colleges must increase access by keeping costs of attendance down and harnessing technology to engage and educate students, a parade of big-name speakers said Tuesday at a conference celebrating the sesquicentennial of the national legislation that established public universitie...