Project APPLY
Project: Project APPLY | Partnership length: 2020| HCM Service Area Spotlight: Strategic Communications, Campaigns + Coalitions | Portfolio Category: Postsecondary
HCM Strategists and Kinetic Seeds created Project APPLY, a content series to enliven a national conversation around how today’s students and workers experience learning after high school.
OVERVIEW
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic and economic crises brought massive disruption to our workplaces and learning institutions, millions of Americans were already pursuing further education and training beyond high school in a variety of ways, ranging from online education to apprenticeships, digital badging, military service, and traditional college classrooms. As the country looks to spur economic recovery by quickly and affordably getting more students and workers the degrees and credentials needed for in-demand jobs, it is critical that we zero in on–and find ways to expand and improve–learning pathways and ensure that learners reap the benefits of their experiences.
OUR WORK
In partnership with Kinetic Seeds, the Project APPLY series highlighted the diverse ways students and workers access learning and offered ideas for how we might better recognize this learning through portable credit that can be applied to degrees and credentials with workplace relevance. As part of our overall, ongoing portfolio of postsecondary work around transfer, our experts made the case for how this approach increases equity, builds affordable pathways, and meets workforce needs.
To learn more about Project Apply visit: https://medium.com/@Project_APPLY.
IMPACT
“Empowering Today’s Learners and Workers with Due Credentials” by Dr. Lara K. Couturier, principal at HCM Strategists, and Christine Flanagan, president of Kinetic Seeds.
“Completion Agendas Require Transition Cultures” by Dr. Robin Colson, Director of Innovation of Florida Virtual Campus and Leigh Anne Cappello, Chief Experience Officer of Kinetic Seeds.
“Achieving Equity Requires Valuing the 21st Century Learner Experience” by Elizabeth Salinas, senior research associate HCM Strategists.
