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REACH Framework
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The REACH Collaborative focuses on creating pathways designed for Black, Hispanic, Latino, and Native American adults to earn quality credentials that lead to a degree. We work with states and community colleges to replace systems and beliefs that unfairly hold adult learners of color back from better education and life with pathways, supports, and practices that celebrate and value their unique lived experiences.
The REACH Collaborative framework guides community colleges in developing pathways that embrace the unique experiences and needs of adult students of color.
- Credentials to Degrees Pathways remove unfair barriers to high-wage, family-supporting careers. Their speed and stackability are a necessary and practical response to the expensive stops and restarts adult learners of color have faced for far too long.
- Bundled and Sequenced Supports place people-first supports throughout a student's educational journey. Proactively providing adult learners of color with what they need, when they need it, inside and outside of the classroom, makes education work better for everyone.
- Culturally Sustaining Practices create environments where racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds and lived experiences are acknowledged and valued—where adult learners of color feel they belong and can thrive.
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- Resource Publication Date: 2024
- Posted by: Christina Stocks
- Posted in: Critical Sectors Job Quality Grant