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Announcing the Winner of the Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence

Highlighting the need to improve student learning and graduation rates in community colleges — leading to good jobs — the Aspen Institute College Excellence Program today announced that...

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Prize Jury

A jury of former elected officials and other prominent national business, labor, education and civil rights leaders will review quantitative and qualitative data to select a winner and runners-up....

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Former community college presidents and faculty, along with respected researchers and policy experts, will review extensive data and applications for each eligible community college to select a set...

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Get to know us: Q&A with Josh Wyner

The recently launched College Excellence Program will be hosting an event on April 25, with Dr. Jill Biden and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, to announce the top 120 community colleges eligible...

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Get to know us: Q&A with Karen Elzey

Last October Skills For America’s Future, an initiative of the Aspen Institute’s Economic Opportunities Program, was launched at the White House. The following is a Q & A with Skills for America’...

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Obama seeks to partner businesses, 2-year colleges

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Economic Opportunities Program

The Economic Opportunities Program (EOP) advances workforce training, community college, microenterprise and asset building strategies for lower income Americans.