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Liberalism
10.12.22
The Principles That Unlock Human Potential
Education
03.14.23
Aspire Ability: Repairing today’s talent marketplace
Education
12.21.22
Charles Koch Foundation Partner Impact Update (2022)
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Education
09.18.23
Catalyze: Career-connected learning helps learners find meaningful work
Education
08.22.23
Merit America helps workers find new ways to contribute through meaningful jobs
Education
03.14.23
Aspire Ability: Repairing today’s talent marketplace
Education
12.21.22
Charles Koch Foundation Partner Impact Update (2022)
Education
07.13.22
Strong employer leadership needed to upskill Americans
Education
06.30.22
Harmel Academy of the Trades: Inspiring Young Men to Transform the World Through Skilled Work
Education
06.29.22
Closing the jobs awareness gap
Education
06.22.22
Jane Estrada: A Message to My Younger Self
Education
06.15.22
"Micro-pathways": An Urgent Solution to Transform Community Colleges in the U.S.
Education
06.08.22
Skills-based hiring can guarantee America’s job boom doesn’t leave Black talent behind
Education
05.27.22
Forget skills gaps: The true problem is skills craters
Education
05.18.22
Leading With Data and Heart: Changing the Tides of Intergenerational Poverty
Education
05.11.22
Helping learners understand how they can impact the world
Education
05.04.22
How to empower students to live intentional lives
Education
04.27.22
(Re)Defining the Goal: Kevin J. Fleming Discusses Transforming Education in America
Education
04.20.22
Learning in the Flow of Work: The Future of Learning
Education
04.13.22
Driving transformation at the intersection of work and learning
Education
12.28.21
Unlocking Student's Potential for Success
Education
10.21.21
Dare to be different
Education
07.28.21
The Future of STEM Education After the Pandemic
Faculty at Purdue University have created a hybrid model for STEM education that could be a glimpse into the future.
Education
07.21.21
What is digital credentialing? And how could it change education?
Sean Gallagher of Northeastern University gives us a primer on the state of the field, opportunities, and threats.
Education
06.30.21
Connecting students to purpose and passion
Intentional Life Lab gives students tools for lifelong learning and discovery.
Education
06.23.21
Putting students and families first in public education
Dr. Ashley Rogers Berner researches educational pluralism around the world to find new ways to provide K-12 education in America.
Economic Progress
06.15.21
My experience: Sophia
The Tocqueville Scholars Program at the University of New Orleans helps students chase their dreams.
Education
05.05.21
My experience: Shirley
A mom embraces lifelong learning with the help of PelotonU.
Education
05.03.21
College for the new majority
PelotonU breaks ground in the hybrid college space.
Economic Progress
04.28.21
SkillUp Coalition Mobilizes to Get 1 Million Americans Back to Work
Employers, education providers, and philanthropies take action.
Education
04.14.21
Postsecondary education needs alternative financing models
Cancelling student-loan debt will not solve the root cause of surging cost. But innovative financing models could make a positive difference.
Education
04.12.21
Student success through quality instruction
Quality transcends any medium. It gets students logged-on early. It deepens learning. And it draws students and faculty together.
Education
04.07.21
Create Micro-pathways That Stack to Degrees (and Lead to Good Jobs)
The new majority of learners don’t need a costly degree. They need a well-designed, affordable micro-pathway that leads to a high-growth job.
Education
04.05.21
One university: Multiple products
A college education is no longer something that happens to young people in one physical place, during one period of their lives.
Education
03.31.21
Integrate learning and work with a job-embedded degree
Instead of being in the background as a supplement to learning, work experience needs to be central in order to build the future workforce.
Education
03.29.21
Separate knowledge from brand
What if university brand was no longer the dominant signal of quality for employers evaluating applicants?
Education
03.24.21
Make access the new arms race
The pandemic’s ultimate and lasting impact will be that it gave higher education permission to consider new ways of thinking and operating.
Education
03.22.21
Make it easy for students to transfer credit
A new ASU Transfer Credit Guide emphasizes the applicability of credits, rather than simply the transfer between institutions.
Education
03.17.21
Allow students to build their education one brick at a time
PelotonU aims to provide students with the flexibility and support they need to balance family and work obligations.
Education
03.15.21
Value and teach practical knowledge
Ben Nelson of Minerva champions useful or “practical” knowledge as the most important component for enabling a free and dynamic society.
Education
03.10.21
Build faster, cheaper pathways to good jobs
Ryan Craig and Ayesha Khan of Achieve Partners argue for a “what you need when you need it” learning model.
Education
03.09.21
Building a brighter future for all learners
We ask leaders in postsecondary education for one big idea that could make a positive difference in the lives of learners.
Education
12.22.20
Highlighting Innovations in Postsecondary Education (2020)
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the search for short- and long-term innovations in postsecondary education.
Education
10.07.20
A Young Superstar’s Quest to Unlock Her Own Potential, and Inspire Others
“I don’t know for sure what I’ll be doing in the future, but I do know that I am passionate about law, education, and policy,” Smith said. “I can advocate for people, be a voice. In everything I do, I keep moving toward that light.”
Education
08.26.20
More than just a degree
Since 2014, the UNCF/Koch Scholars Program (UKSP) has awarded thousands of scholarships to first generation, low-income Black students who have a passion for developing an entrepreneurial mindset and applying it to all aspects of life. But helping individuals is not what most impresses UNCF’s president and CEO Dr. Michael Lomax about the program. For Lomax, the biggest upside is UKSP’s focus on enriching communities, not just individuals.
Education
02.05.20
Protecting Academic Freedom
Scholars at Risk Network focuses on a vital mission: Protect scholars and promote academic freedom
Economic Progress
01.03.20
At a Small Midwest High School, Shop Class is Reborn
The Cardinal Manufacturing program teaches students skills like welding, machining, and woodworking, as well as accounting and office management. The result is a student-run, profit-sharing fabrication and repair business that has become so successful it now serves as a model for other school systems nationwide.
Education
11.19.19
Beyond the Textbook: Junior Achievement’s Real-life Economics Lessons Update
The Junior Achievement Economics curriculum just got an update, making students see schoolwork through the lens of their own lives.
Education
09.11.19
Despite Challenges in Higher Education, Americans Still Give Colleges and Universities a Passing Grade
Though a large portion of Americans believe higher education is going in the wrong direction, they still see colleges and universities as important institutions for innovation.
Education
08.08.19
Thriving Debate Teams at Historically Black Colleges Demonstrate the Benefits of Debate for Students
A great tradition is revived thanks to the launch of the National HBCU Speech and Debate League, which teaches students critical thinking, empathy, and leadership through debate.
Education
07.26.19
Mivera University, Rethinking the College Learning Experience
A school called Minerva is reinventing the university with a unique blend of coursework that emphasizes experimental learning.
Education
06.28.19
Innovation Convention: Finding the Next Edison
The Invention Convention is routed in the principals of science, technology, engineering, and math, as well as invention and entrepreneurship, and is empowering the next generation of innovators.
Education
04.04.19
Empowering the Next Generation of Social Entrepreneurs
American University’s Entrepreneurship Incubator is helping students develop businesses that are bettering the world.
Education
12.20.18
Life Is a Startup: An Interview with Noah Wasserman
Noam Wasserman has been studying how entrepreneurs succeed for decades. Now he’s applying his findings to the life choices we all have to make.
Education
10.03.18
Rethinking America's School System in the Context of Other Countries
Johns Hopkins’ Ashley Berner says that other democracies fund all types of schools, including religious ones. Why we don’t is a historical artifact that Berner is keen to challenge.
Education
08.28.18
Hunter Haymore UNCF Koch Scholars
Criminal Justice
07.31.18
Every Run Doesn’t Need to End in a Crash: Rick Aguilar and SkillsUSA
Education
07.20.18
Jordan Williams: A UNCF/Koch Scholar and Young Mogul Who's Connecting Others
Education
10.05.17
Julian Jones: Living the Life Of Your Dreams
UNCF/Koch Scholars alum Julian Jones explains how starting his own business, with the help of his UNCF mentor, is enabling him to live the life of his dreams.
Education
10.05.17
Jacey Stuckey
Jacey Stuckey describes how she flourished, despite having the odds against her. She started college with less than $300 to her name, and now she aspires to be a "queen-pin" of investing and private equity.
Education
10.05.17
Kathaleena Monds: The Importance of People
From folding newspapers to developing software, Albany State University professor Kathaleena Edward Monds has learned important lessons about entrepreneurship, innovation, and community.
Education
10.01.17
New Ways to Learn at High Point University
Education
09.29.17
UNCF & Koch Scholars Program
Education
09.29.17
SkillsUSA: Educating the Next Generation of Inventors
Education
09.29.17
The Thurgood Marshall College Fund’s Center for Advancing Opportunity
