Beating the Odds to Improve Student Success

About 2.2 million students will enroll as full-time freshmen this fall. What are the odds for their success? Less than 60 percent of full-time freshman at four-year schools will earn a degree within six years. The results are even worse for low-income and minority students. At community colleges, less than 30 percent will earn a degree within three years.

A new report, Beating the Odds: What It Means and Why It's Important, from HCM Strategists and supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, profiles a diverse group of more than postsecondary institutions and their efforts to help more students, particularly those who are traditionally underrepresented, successfully earn a degree.

Back to Basics: HIV/AIDS Advocacy as a Model for Catalyzing Change

The Back to Basics: HIV/AIDS Advocacy as a Model for Catalyzing Change report notes that HIV/AIDS activists' advocacy model has the potential to help millions more, across diseases and issues, by creating a roadmap for catalyzing significant public policy change. It urges all advocates to get smart, adjust the strategy as needed, hold people accountable, and learn from the legacy these activists left behind. To read the full report, click here.

To view related articles and news stories pertaining to the report, see below:

Report Outlines Lessons from AIDS Advocates. An article in the Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report. Read the Kaiser Health News article.

Learning from the HIV/AIDS Advocacy Movement. An article in the Research!America Blog. Read the Research!America blog post.

Lessons from HIV/AIDS Advocacy. A mention and link to the report in Politico's Afternoon Pulse. Read the Afternoon Pulse mention.

Lessons from AIDS/HIV Advocacy Efforts. An article in the Wall Street Journal by Amy Dockser Marcus. Read the Wall Street Journal article.

Tracking Momentum

Tracking Momentum is HCM's Quarterly Progress Update on Advancing Higher Education Productivity in America. To view current editions, please click below or visit: http://collegeproductivity.org/strategy-labs.

• December 2011
• October 2011
• June 2011
• March 2011
• December 2010
  
• September 2010

Strategy Labs

The state Productivity Strategy Labs are lead by HCM Strategists on behalf of Lumina Foundation for Education. As part of this work, HCM produces content on state practices in higher education. Click here for more information: http://collegeproductivity.org/strategy-labs.

Strateg-E

Strateg-E is HCM's quarterly newsletter that highlights key accomplishments of the firm and its clients. Click below to view current and past publications:

• July 2011
• February 2011
• December 2010