Institute for Higher Education Policy: Summarizing the Results of "Project Win-Win"

^{December 3, 2013 | Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education}

The Institute for Higher Education Policy has released Searching for Our Lost Associate`s Degrees: Project Win-Win at the Finish Line, a final report summarizing a large-scale effort designed to identify and, in some cases, retroactively award degrees to former students who earned credit towards an associate`s degree but never received one. The report details results from 61 institutions in nine states and offers numerous policy recommendations and ideas for best practices related to those seeking to duplicate the strategy elsewhere. Of the 20,100 students within nine credits of earning a degree at institutions participating in the project, just under 2,100 either returned to school or indicated that they intended to return. The report suggests that employing the Win-Win sequence and moving through it at a faster pace would likely improve these outcomes. Further recommendations include constructing a team of experts at institutions who can guide the process from start to finish, creating a tracking system capable of following students as they move from institution to institution and across state borders, and building comprehensive data capacity from the very beginning. 

WICHE`s Adult College Completion Network will also host a webinar on the project on December 10. For more information click here: http://www.adultcollegecompletion.org/webinars.

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