David Johnston of the Connecticut-based Center for Higher Education Retention Excellence (CHERE) has been selected as a 2013 Angels in Adoption award recipient. The award is given on behalf of the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute (CCAI) to those who have demonstrated commitment to improving the lives of children in need of permanent, loving homes.
Read MoreCHERE brought in Dr. Lindsay Coleman Page, co-author of The Summer Melt Handbook, based on a study conducted at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a panel of students and educators at the secondary and post-secondary levels. The October 30 program was at the University of Saint Joseph in West Hartford. A portion of the registration fee supported emergency funds for Career Beginnings students pursuing higher education.
Read More“First-Year Experience: What Works and Why” will be the focus when Housatonic Community College hosts a day-long workshop sponsored by the Center for Higher Education Retention Excellence on September 27 in Bridgeport.
The reasons for the less-than-ideal retention and graduation rates in Connecticut and nationally are many and complex:
The backdrop for the upcoming workshop by Betsy Barefoot, Vice President of the John N. Gardner Institute for Excellence in Undergraduate Education, to be held on September 27 at Housatonic Community College, is a series of sit-up-and-take-notice statistics:
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