Building Innovative Programs

How colleges can better connect students to what they need to help them start their working lives.

Skills are increasingly billed as the new currency of the education-to-work pipeline. But what do they really mean?

What happens when you give students access to a network of peers and mentors already working in the tech industry? At Georgia State University, they’re unlocking new levels of self-confidence and career success.

An innovative partnership at the University of Georgia saved a community newspaper – and gave students a new way to prepare for the work force.

Keith Curry, president of Compton College, describes how partnerships have improved student outcomes and helped revitalize his once-struggling institution.

Karen Curls and Lyle Gibson go to great lengths, literally, to teach the history of civil rights.

The Covid-19 pandemic permanently transformed the role of community colleges.

Rural colleges are often hundreds of miles from other higher-education institutions, so they must form partnerships outside the sector to achieve their goals.

Rural students face many obstacles to obtaining a college degree. But some colleges have found a way to meet them where they are.

Rural colleges faced declining enrollment, financial instability, and demographic shifts long before the pandemic. How are they faring now? College leaders from some of rural America’s most innovative colleges share their stories of success and lessons learned.