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We work to make education more accessible, affordable, accountable, and equitable
Our work is large-scale, interconnected, driven by data and grounded in learner and parent perspectives. By working in every part of the education system, we provide a broad point of view and deep knowledge that allows for bigger impact.
SPOTLIGHT | Encouraging State Leadership in Expanding High-Quality Instruction
Project: Collaborative for Student Success
Length: 2021 - Present
Focus Area: Strategic Advice and Counsel
Category: K-12
HCM Strategists has held a strategic partnership with the Collaborative for Student Success since the Collaborative’s founding in 2014. In 2021, HCM supported the launch of the CurriculumHQ platform to advocate for and track publicly available state data on high-quality instructional materials, curriculum adoption guidance, and professional development and learning.
SPOTLIGHT | Providing Strategic Counsel for Redefining Rural Education
Project: Alliance of Regional Rural Colleges (ARRC)
Length: 2021 - present
Focus Area: Strategic Advice and Counsel
Category: Postsecondary
HCM Strategists provided strategic advice and counsel to ARRC, a new advocacy and research organization that’s challenging Capitol Hill leaders to rethink how they evaluate and fund rural and regional colleges.
Outcomes-Based Funding (OBF): Driving Outcomes for Students Through Aligned Funding Models
Project: HCM Outcomes-Based Funding Framework
Length: Ongoing
Focus Area: Strategic Advice + Counsel, Market and Policy Research + Analysis, Designing, Evaluating and Implementing Policy Agendas
Category: Postsecondary
A thought leader with deep experience in tracking, analyzing and working with states to improve state postsecondary policy, HCM Strategists has developed an unparalleled understanding of the state postsecondary policy and funding landscape.
Tackling Inequities Through Intentional Strategic Planning
Project: HCM Strategic Planning
Length: Ongoing
Focus Area: Strategic Advice and Counsel
Category: Postsecondary
HCM’s strategic planning brings a keen awareness of the external political and economic environment; research and best practice; and the central role of equity, diversity and inclusion that informs effective leadership.
Support for Equity-Minded Leadership
Project: HCM Equity Framework
Length: Ongoing
Focus Area: Strategic Advice and Counsel
Category: Postsecondary
HCM believes state, system, institutional and community-based equity-minded leadership is needed to identify and eliminate postsecondary educational disparities that exist pervasively across racial, ethnic, income, geographic and gender lines.
IMPACT | Transforming funding and financial aid systems across the country
For over 12 years, HCM has worked across several states to transform the higher education financing model.