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This new series aims to elevate the work underway around the country to improve outcomes for transfer students. The series will also share lessons and tools that can help accelerate change and lower barriers to equitable transfer student success. The first blog in the series is titled “Introducing Tackling Transfer” and was authored by Alison Kadlec of Sova.
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Getting at a Real College Cost Driver: Health Care by Terrell Halaska and Kristin Hultquist (formerly Conklin).
By William Crowe, Shanna Smith-Jaggars and Chris Soto -+ View Media -
Getting at a Real College Cost Driver: Health Care by Terrell Halaska and Kristin Hultquist (formerly Conklin).
By John Fink, Maria Hesse, Cheryl Hyman, Shirleatha Lee, Sharon Morrissey, and Elena Quiroz-Livanis -+ View Media -
As higher education faces an uncertain future amid a global pandemic and calls for greater racial equality, the nation’s governors should chart a long-range strategy that stimulates the economy, avoids the boom-and-bust cycle of funding colleges, and avoids mistakes that have left many behind, write experts from the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education and a policy consulting firm.
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HCM Strategists, one of the nation’s leading advocacy and public policy firms, today announced the launch of a new blog series exploring different issues facing the field of education following the COVID-19 pandemic. This new series is titled, “Addressing COVID-19 Concerns in Education,” and will identify emerging and necessary policies and practices across schools, institutions of higher education, federal and state government for postsecondary and K-12 education.
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Every year around this time, the NCAA releases its list of 68 teams that will participate in the March Madness tournament. This year, the tournament was canceled due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Unfortunately, this year, fans around the country must forgo the ritual of analyzing team statistics, weighing defensive and offensive strengths or choosing their favorites based on mascots and team colors to build their brackets.
By Danielle Zaragoza, Elizabeth Salinas and Jessica Collis -+ View Media -
A recent report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests we may be winning the battle against cancer. But we will lose the war if we don’t do something about the rising cost of drugs in the United States.
By Ceci Connolly and Bobby Clark -+ View Media -
If you look closely at a particular photo here, you’ll find the collector in a crowd of nude New Yorkers lying on the Queensboro Bridge.
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Clinical trials function more efficiently and produce better results when patients are engaged in the process. Increasingly, the industry is moving towards a patient-centric approach to clinical research and the design of trials. Reducing patient burden is a big part of this as it helps to boost recruitment and retention rates. But there is also value in engaging patients in the design of the trial itself.
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HCM Strategists, one of the nation’s leading healthcare advocacy, policy and engagement firms, today released a new in-depth policy brief addressing the shortage of mental health services on college campuses. This brief seeks to identify the major factors impacting the supply and demand framework around mental health services on campuses.
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By Amanda McMahon and Jessica Bonilla -+ View Media
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Valarie Clark, MPA previously worked for the American Association of Medical Colleges, Krista Forbes recently worked in community sustainability for ECO District Hampton Roads and Yuri Velasquez joins HCM from the Florida Department of Health. They bring their community engagement experience and health policy expertise to HCM working with the NIH’s All of Us Research Program.
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For most families, paying for college means relying on some form of financial aid. Yet last year, 43% of high school seniors didn’t submit the one form required for nearly all types of student aid: the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). These students missed out on a stunning $24 billion in money for college.
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“The theory behind outcomes-based funding is that it makes a direct alignment between the state’s finance policy and the state goals,” Scott Boelscher of HCM Strategists, a public policy firm, told the commission members. “… It has the ability to influence institution actions through financial incentives, is what springs to mind first, but also through awareness of state priorities and awareness of institutional performance. And it provides incentives to adopt and scale evidence based student success best practices.”
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Washington, D.C. – HCM Strategists, one of the nation’s leading healthcare advocacy, policy and engagement firms, today announced that Cara Tenenbaum will be joining the staff as a Director for HCM’s Health Innovation practice. Cara is an expert healthcare policy analyst that specializes in women’s health, digital health and personalized medicine.
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If states and schools are successful, they will significantly increase bachelor’s attainment rates for community college transfer students and take a major step toward improving opportunity for those often disadvantaged by our education system. If nothing is done, free community college may not turn out to be all that free — but a costly detour instead.
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Author Liz Ross of HCM Strategists also references the Obama-era School Improvement Grant program, which researchers found largely unsuccessful. “Given the lessons learned from the SIG program, it is fair to ask: how can we be sure that districts will not continue to take the path of least resistance when provided with more flexibility under the law?” she writes.
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When Elizabeth Ross, the director of K-12 state policy at the consulting firm HCM Strategists, was working on a report published in November on school improvement work under ESSA and checked what state education department websites said about their school improvement practices, some of the sites hadn’t been updated since before ESSA passed.
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HCM Strategists, one of the nation’s leading advocacy and public policy firms, today announced that Bobby Clark will be joining the staff full-time as a principal. Bobby is a renowned expert on a number of health policy issues, including the regulation of food, drugs, and medical devices, as well as biomedical research and development, health insurance reform, health care financing, and delivery system reform.
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Author Liz Ross of HCM Strategists also references the Obama-era School Improvement Grant program, which researchers found largely unsuccessful. “Given the lessons learned from the SIG program, it is fair to ask: how can we be sure that districts will not continue to take the path of least resistance when provided with more flexibility under the law?” she writes.
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