Spring 2015 UPDATE

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• The Importance of Linking Policy Intent to Policy Outcome: An Interview with Mark Mitsui
• Pathways to What?: The Implications of Learning Outcomes Paradigms forPathways to Results
• Perspectives on Opportunity Generating Pathways at OCCRL’s Scaling Up Conference
• Building Illinois’ Green Workforce through Career Pathways
• Strengthening Career Pathways in Manufacturing Education
• Guiding Principles for Scaling Transformative Change
• Strategies for Transformative Change

Fall 2014 UPDATE

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• Charting Pathways in Challenging Times: An Interview with Eboni Zamani-Gallaher
• Dual Credit Funding Policies in Illinois: Understanding How State and Local Funding Relates to Student Access and Participation
• PRC Spotlight Briefs Highlight Promising Practices
• The Path to Revised Guiding Principles for the Transformative Change Initiative
• The Alliance for Quality Career Pathways (AQCP) Framework: Building Momentum to Individual Prosperity and Regional Economic Competitiveness
• Upskill America: U.S. Department of Education Launches the Career Pathways Exchange
• Pathways to Results: Helping Practitioners Improve Pathways and Programs of Study

Spring 2014 UPDATE

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• Letter from Director Debra Bragg on OCCRL’s 25th Anniversary
• An Interview with Adrianna Kezar: Opportunities and Challenges for Scaling Up Innovation in Higher Education
• Pathways to Results Conference Highlight: Examining the Context for Scaling Up in Higher Education with Marcy Drummond
• An Interview with Health Professions Pathway (H2P) Consortium Director Marianne Krismer
• Guiding Principles from Transformative Change Initiative about Scaling Up
• Reverse Transfer Initiative Credit When It’s Due Expands: Three New States Join Initiative
• Scaling Career Pathways: Insights and Experience from the Field —20 Featured Presentation from the 2014 Pathways to Results Conference
• Executive Summary of Jobs for the Future’s Thinking Big: A Framework for States on Scaling Up Community College Innovation

Fall 2013 UPDATE

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• Community Colleges and the Increasing Importance of Data: An Interview with David Baime
• The Illinois Longitudinal Data System (ILDS) Research Agenda
• Potential Models for Using State Longitudinal Data System (SLDS) Data to Improve Student Learning
• Education Lessons Learned with Longitudinal Data Systems and Quasi-Experimental Design
• State Longitudinal Data System (SLDS) Research Agendas: National Context and Instructive Models

Spring 2013 UPDATE

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• Valuing Credentials: An Interview with Anthony Carnevale
• The Value of Progressing Along the Continuum of Educational Attainment
• The Potential Value of a Reverse Transfer Associate Degree: Diverse Values and Perspectives
• Rethinking Asian American Students’ Educational Pathways
• Barriers to Retention and Degree Completion of African American Males in Illinois
• Recent Doctoral Research on Community Colleges

Fall 2012 UPDATE

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• Educational Equity: An Interview with Dr. Eboni Zamani-Gallaher
• Rethinking College and Career Readiness: A Call for Understanding Context to Address Racial Inequality
• How Policy Affects Access in the Context of the College Completion Agenda
• Past Failure, Future Opportunity: Lessons Learned about the Experiences and Perceptions of Males of Color in College and Career Readiness Programs
• Siguiendo Tu Sueno “Chasing Your Dream”: What Research Says about Barriers and Supports to Latino Student Community College Persistence
• Pathways to Careers Network Supports College and Career Transitions for Adult Learners

Spring 2012 UPDATE

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• The Unsung Sector: An Interview with Under Secretary Martha J. Kanter about America’s College Completion Agenda and Community Colleges
• Pathways to College Completion: Credentialing Models for Students who Stop Short of a Bachelor’s Degree
• A Guide to Major U.S. College Completion Initiatives
• TAFE DIRECTORS AUSTRALIA (TDA) Occasional Papers What the UK, US and Australia Can Learn from Each Other
• Pathways to Results: Implementation of a Data-Driven Approach
• High Schools Promoting Career and College Readiness: An Interview with Mr. Corey Tafoya of Woodstock High School
• Contributions of Transfer Students and Structures to the College Completion Agenda

Fall 2011 UPDATE

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• Partnerships that Support High Schools That Work Reform: An Interview with Dr. Gene Bottoms
• OCCRL Engages with High Schools in PTR Pilot
• Bridges Across the P-16 Continuum: The Role of Educational Partnerships
• College and Career Readiness in Illinois: What Illinois’ Pilot Projects Tell Us about the Challenges of Alignment
• Accelerating Opportunity Initiative Awards Grants to Eleven States to Transform Adult Education
• Developing and Leveraging Partnerships and Collaboration to Transition Adult Students into Postsecondary Education and Employment
• Partnership Research for Advanced Technological Education (ATE)
• Strategies for Involving Partners in Pathways to Results

Spring 2011 UPDATE

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• The Equity Scorecard(TM): An Interview with Dr. Estela Bensimon
• Pathways to Results in Illinois
• State Perspective on Student Transition
• Pathways to Results Projects at Southwestern Illinois College
• Lessons from the Frontlines of the PTR Process
• STEM Learning exchanges
• Significant Discussions: A Guide for Secondary and Postsecondary Curriculum Alignment
• Book Review: Patton, M. Q. (2011). Developmental Evaluation: Applying Complexity Concepts to Enhance Innovation and Use. New York, NY: The Guilford Press.

Fall 2010 UPDATE

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• The College Fear Factor: An Interview with Rebecca Cox
• What the Literature Tells Us about Bridge Programs
• From Curiosity to Results: The Creation of a Summer Bridge Program
• Illinois Connections in Engineering (ICE)
• Making the “College Connection”: Colorado’s SUN (Success UNlimited) Initiative, an Intensive Transition Program
• Results of the 2010 Illinois Bridge Status Survey
• Bridge Resources

Spring 2010 UPDATE

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• The Lumina Perspective: A Conversation with Holly Zanville
• The Applied Baccalaureate Degree: What We Have Learned So Far
• Applied Baccalaureate Policy in Six States
• Development of Washington’s Community and Technical College Applied Baccalaureate Degrees
• Employer and Graduate Perspectives of the Community College Applied Baccalaureate: Meeting the College Mission

Fall 2009 UPDATE

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• Year Three of the Shifting Gears Initiative: An Interview with Whitney Smith from the Joyce Foundation
• Basic Skills for College and Careers
• Lessons from Illinois’ Evaluation of Shifting Gears 1.0
• Inside the Black Box: Three Bridge Programs Involved in Illinois Shifting Gears
• Shifting Gears Phase Two: Advancing Policy
• Supporting Bridge Instruction through Title I of the Workforce Investment Act

Spring 2009 UPDATE

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• Moving Forward with College and Career Readiness
• Evaluating the College and Career Readiness Act
• The CCR Project at South Suburban College
• Developing High School Partnerships
• OCCRL Welcomes Dianne Bazell, New Deputy Director, Illinois Board of Higher Education
• Kentucky’s P-16 Council as Agent of Change: Implications for College and Career Readiness in Illinois
• Achieve and the American Diploma Project
• Rethinking College Readiness
• College and Career Readiness Resources
• The Early College Movement: An Interview with Nancy Hoffman

Fall 2008 UPDATE

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• Implementing Programs of Study: An Interview with Rich Katt
• Equity in Access and Opportunity for Bright Future
• OCCRL’s Role in Implementation and Evaluation of Perkins IV Programs of Study
• The College and Career Readiness Act Evaluation: Early Findings
• What’s Unique About Programs of Study? Three CTE Experts Respond

Spring 2008 UPDATE

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• Perkins IV: An Interview with Kimberly Green
• Perkins IV: An Interview with AACC’s Jim Hermes
• State Secondary CTE Standards
• Implementing Perkins IV: A Snapshot of Illinois’ Progress
• Book Review
• Perkins IV and Career Development: Considering Pathways for Students and their Parents

Fall 2007 UPDATE

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• Improving Access, Transition, and Success: Meeting the Challenges Facing College Students with Disabilities
• The TEAM Project at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Increasing Access and Improving Transition of Illinois Community College Students
• Illinois’ Shifting Gears Initiative: Helping Adult Students Transition to College and Careers
• OCCRL Reports Released: New Research on Youth and Adult Transition
• Credit-Based Transition Programs

Spring 2007 UPDATE

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• Right of Entry, College Access, and Controversy: Implications of the Spellings Report
• Accountability in Community Colleges
• The Zero-Sum of Higher Education Affordability
• The Community College Response to Quality Issues and Recommendations from the Spellings Report
• Book Review
• The Future of Higher Education: A Conversation with Charlene Nunley

Fall 2006 UPDATE

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• Students’ Right to Know: Help Students Take Advantage of Illinois’ Strong Articulation Agreements
• IS IAI IMPROVING TRANSFER?
• Update on Articulation: A Conversation with Jan Ignash
• Developing the Associate of Arts in Teaching: An Articulation Partnership in Illinois: An Interview with Dr. Charles Evans, Assistant Vice-President for Academic Affairs University of Illinois

Spring 2006 UPDATE

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• Working in a Data Mine or Coaching?–The Importance of Research in One Community College
• How Does Community College Research Impact the Students’ Experience in the Community College?
• Research That Matters to the Community College: An Interview with John Levin
• Increased Needs for Community College Research in a “No Frill” World

Fall 2005 UPDATE

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• Online Learning: How to Engage the Milliennial Generation
• Exemplary Professors: Factors Leading to the Development of Award Winning Teachers
• Early Start on College Possible in 50 States, But Results Unclear
• The Case for Learning Communities
• The First-Year Experience: Supporting Student Learning, Student Development and Student Success
• Giving a Little TLC: Providing Insights to Technology and the Learning College

Spring 2005 UPDATE

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• The Dance of Assessment and Accreditation
• Assessment at Harold Washington College
• Implementing Academic Assessment: Parkland College’s Journey
• The Culture of Assessment
• Assessment Conference and Course Announcement
• Academic Assessment: An Interview with Peter Ewell

Spring 2004 UPDATE

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• Illinois’ New Course Applicability System
• Intrusive Advisement: A Model for Success at John A. Logan College
• Developmental Writing and Student Success
• Academic Pathways to Access and Student Success
• Narrowing the Gaps in Educational Attainment: Assessing and Responding to Needs for Community College Services
• Transfer in Illinois: Meeting the Needs of Different Racial/Ethnic Groups

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