This week features Greater Minds, an initiative of Greater Spokane Incorporated. The program launched just a year ago and is making progress towards its goal to raise the proportion of residents in Spokane County with high-quality degrees or certificates from 40 percent to 60 percent by 2025. Read about how the initiative came to be […]
Community Spotlight: Graduate! Philadelphia
Community Spotlight with Tom Ahart, Director of College Success Services at Graduate! Philadelphia
Every so often, we bring the spotlight to one community within the Network so that you can continue to learn about the background, interests, and insights of your peers. This week, read about Tom and his work as Director of College Success […]
Community Spotlight: Upgrade San Antonio
Community Spotlight with Micaela Rios, Director of Upgrade San Antonio
Micaela Ríos joined the Education Partnership in March 2015 as a College Access and Success Advisor for cafécollege. She is now the Program Director for Upgrade San Antonio. Ms. Rios enjoys guiding families through the college application process, as well as dispelling myths for first generation […]
Community Spotlight: Graduate! ABQ
Community Spotlight with Dan Mendelsohn, Director of Graduate! ABQ
How did an adult completion agenda first come about in your community?
Graduate! ABQ is part of a larger initiative in our community called Mission: Graduate, which is focused on increasing the number of degrees and certificates by 60,000 by the year 2020. The key […]
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Karen Ridgle
“Graduate Memphis helped me to set some goals for myself that had been put on the back burner. Now I am student at LeMoyne-Owen College with a 3.5 GPA. Since returning to college to pursue my degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Management, my confidence level has increased and now I freely share […]
Greg Akers
“My experience with Graduate Memphis was phenomenal. Without the organization’s assistance, I certainly wouldn’t have a degree. I would not have gotten up the courage to look into going back to school, and the information, advice, and direct introductions Graduate Memphis gave me was fundamental to my graduating.”
Keith Colquit
I had been unemployed for several years due to a back injury I got from my last (highly paid) job. I took a job as a school janitor to pay the bills, but it was at such low pay, with no benefits, and was far from being my dream job that I realized I had […]
Kimberly Lowe
I started going to Temple University in 1989 but had to leave to help out at home when my father passed and my mother was ill. To help with money I took a job as a Philadelphia Corrections Officer.
Almost twenty years later, I walked into Graduate! Philadelphia. I was supporting my friend […]
Julia Capece
I have been trying to get back to school to complete my degree since 2005. I didn’t know which school to attend, what area to study, or how I would pay for it. All I knew was that I wanted to go back and finish this time. I attended countless college fairs, and I was […]