College Futures Foundation

Save the dates for our 2014 Regional Convenings: 5/20 in LA and 5/21 in Oakland! Grantees, check out the link for more info--including other learning opportunities and new Foundation staff.

News About Convenings from College Access Foundation Marty joined the Foundation in April 2013 as Chief Learning Officer. Marty is responsible for the leadership, management, and day-to-day operations of the Foundation’s evaluation, learning, and research functions and their application to strategy development, program planning, and achievement of CAF...

http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/the-short-list-college/articles/2013/07/02/10-highest-priced-public-colleges-for-out-of-state-students?src=usn_tw

10 Highest-Priced Public Colleges for Out-of-State Students Nonresident students pay a premium to attend these top-rated public college and universities.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2013/07/01/10-things-every-college-grad-needs-to-know-about-money-2/?utm_campaign=forbestwittersf&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

10 Things Every College Grad Needs To Know About Money Mary Morrison, who has taught a personal finance class to Stanford University seniors for 15 years, has seen the depths of college students’ ignorance about personal finances. There was the young woman who thought “paid vacation” meant that her boss would pay for all her travel and leisure activitie...

Humanities degrees likely steady (vs in decline), though much under-valued.

The Humanities in Dubious Battle Here's what the Harvard report doesn't tell us.

A viable and smart contribution to the question of how to integrate humanities-based skills in higher ed curriculum and delivery, for 21st c relevance.

Rethinking the Bachelor's Degree to Bolster the Humanities - Next - The Chronicle of Higher... The number of bachelor’s degrees awarded in traditional arts-and-sciences fields (English, mathematics, biology) peaked in the late 1960s, when about half of all degrees awarded were in those disciplines. Today, such majors account for about a quarter of degrees, as students have fled to practical d...

Great synopsis of the socio-economic education divide in this country: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/16/schooling-ourselves-in-an-unequal-america/

Schooling Ourselves in an Unequal America To regain our lead in educational achievement, we’ll have to work from the bottom up.

College Bound 2.0 Graduation recognizes young Black men headed to college!

See http://oaklandlocal.com/2013/06/college-bound-brotherhood-2-0-graduation-to-recognize-bay-area-young-black-men-headed-to-college/

College Bound Brotherhood 2.0 Graduation recognizes young Black men headed to college African-American young men from throughout the San Francisco Bay Area who have graduated from high school and are heading to college in the fall will be recognized June 19 at a special graduation c...

Will common core close the gap between K-12 and and college? http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/05/03/common-core-curriculum-k-12-could-have-far-reaching-effects-higher-education

Common Core curriculum for K-12 could have far-reaching effects on higher education | Inside Higher For traditional college freshmen, the gap between high school and college is easy to step across -- a few months, at the most, between graduating from one institution and enrolling at another. For those institutions, though, the distance between K-12 and higher education is often more like an unbrid...