How New Jersey is offering opportunity through tuition-free community college paid civicnation
Hispanic and Latinx and one out of nine black students at New Jersey community colleges graduate in three years.
Secretary Zakiya Smith Ellis addresses the CCOG Learning Community during this past January’s in-person convening.With closing these equity gaps as a priority, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy tasked the Secretary of Higher Education and the Higher Education Student Assistance Authority with creating a program that would reach as many people as possible, with few restrictions, in order to maximize the opportunity.
This semester, all qualifying students at the 13 New Jersey county colleges participating in the pilot are receiving a clear message that they can go to college for free with CCOG; however, the state also recognized that populations and needs still vary across the state. The state has provided innovation grants of $250,000 to every one of New Jersey’s 19 community college to build capacity for the program.
Free community college benefits not only disadvantaged populations, but all sectors and communities, helping to improve the economy. These programs are about collaboration, whether through the creation of a learning community among peer institutions, connections with other state agencies such as the Department of Labor and Workforce Development, Department of Human Services and Department of Children and Families, or getting businesses involved.
The New Jersey CCOG program is just a first step. It is part of a larger vision and conversation happening around the importance of higher education and increasing attainment for all residents of the Garden State. New Jersey benefited by learning about the successes and lessons from other College Promise models across the nation.
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