{"id":12230,"date":"2012-11-30T14:04:44","date_gmt":"2012-12-01T00:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=12230"},"modified":"2021-01-20T10:11:52","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T20:11:52","slug":"hawaii-joins-national-network-to-advance-student-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2012\/11\/30\/hawaii-joins-national-network-to-advance-student-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawai\u02bbi<\/span> joins national network to advance student success"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
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The University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>’s seven community colleges join a multi-state collaboration working toward improving student success and completion. (Photo courtesy Leeward Community College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> was recently announced as one of five states accepted into the Postsecondary State Policy Network<\/a>, an initiative led by Jobs for the Future<\/a> in conjunction with Achieving the Dream, Inc.<\/a><\/p>\n

The University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Community Colleges<\/a> will lead Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>’s participation in the network with the goal of implementing long-lasting reforms so more students can earn a market-valued credential.<\/p>\n

The other states announced recently include Connecticut, Oklahoma, Massachusetts and Virginia.<\/p>\n

Accelerating community college success and completion<\/h2>\n

The Postsecondary State Policy Network is a multi-state collaboration committed to advancing state policy agendas that accelerate community college student success and completion. The network’s objective is two-fold—to help states design administrative, system and legislative policies that support institutional reform strategies; and to spread across the states the lessons and models emerging from efforts to define effective and efficient student pathways to completion.<\/p>\n

In the coming year, Achieving the Dream supported states, including Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>, will pursue a range of evidence-based reform initiatives, from piloting performance-based scholarships and improving transfer success, to fundamentally transforming the delivery of developmental education. These reforms are crucial in meeting the national demand for a more college-educated citizenry.<\/p>\n

Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> has identified the following major evidenced-based reform initiatives for the coming year that align with and augment the Network’s goals of accelerating state-level innovation and policy action to improve student success and completion—<\/p>\n