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A ‘landmark’ scholarship for refugee students
The measure also required all participants to meet regularly to discuss common challenges and share best practices. There is real value in colleges’ working together on issues of refugee and displaced students, said Colleen Thouez, founder of the Refugee Resettlement Initiative at the National Association of System Heads. Individual Institutions “shouldn’t have to go it…
Read MoreWhite House Briefing on the Launch of the Welcome Corps, a Refugee Private Sponsorship Program
NASH’s Refugee Resettlement Initiative joins as a partner at the Jan. 24th “White House Briefing on the Launch of the Welcome Corps, a Refugee Private Sponsorship Program.”
Read More200+ Organizations Signal Support for the Welcome Corps, New Service Opportunity for Private Refugee Sponsorship
Washington, D.C. — Today, more than 200 diverse organizations are signaling their support for the Welcome Corps, a new U.S. government community service program that allows everyday Americans to privately sponsor refugees from around the world—representing the boldest innovation in refugee resettlement in more than 40 years, grounded in the generosity and compassion of American communities.
Read MoreWestern Kentucky University launches Resilient Refugee Program to support displaced students
The Resilient Refugee Program was awarded a grant from the National Association of System Heads, or NASH, to kick off its work. NASH is a nationwide organization consisting of higher education systems, including the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education. NASH’s Catalyst Fund honored WKU’s refugee program due to its potential for success and replication at…
Read MoreDemarginalizing Transfer
In 2022, we published 50 blog posts in “Beyond Transfer” elevating the insights of researchers, practitioners, equity-minded reformers and students themselves. Amid the tremendous diversity of contributors and topics included in the 2022 lineup, the unifying thread was each author’s commitment to leveling the playing field for the growing share of students who attend multiple…
Read MoreHigher Education Should be Wary of Promising Prosperity
When the overseers of 75 percent of all public undergraduate education in the US decide to do something, transformative change happens – at scale. This opportunity is now before us, thanks to the determined leadership of the National Association of System Heads (NASH), a group whose few dozen members are a small enough group to…
Read MoreThe NASH Improvement Model
The broken record of broken transfer seems to be on constant repeat in the higher education sector. Going back decades, many states, systems and institutions have enacted sweeping policy changes and invested significant resources in supporting transfer student success. Yet student outcomes have shown little improvement and appear to have even regressed during the pandemic. The question…
Read MoreOur Home Is Your Home
Why can colleges and universities no longer ignore their responsibility to refugees? Globally right now, a record one hundred million people have been forcibly displaced, the most recent surge stemming from the war in Ukraine. The conflict has pushed more than twelve million Ukrainians from their homes since March 2022, both inside and outside Ukrainian…
Read MoreIs College Worth It? Try Asking The Public How To Judge That
It seems that one striking contrast between the plans being developed by NASH and those previous efforts designed to extol the worth of a college degree is this newfound emphasis on reaching out directly to the public. “What is different here is the collective response were are organizing through our membership to tell this story,”…
Read MoreNew Campaign Wants to Prove ‘College Is Worth It’
The National Association of System Heads begins an initiative to bolster the public’s view of higher education by demonstrating—and where necessary improving—how the institutions drive social mobility and individual “prosperity.” NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—A coalition of dozens of public university systems across the country is launching a campaign aimed at improving public perception of the value…
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