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Ohio uses Gates funding to require credential data enrichment at all 22 community colleges
Summary
Ohio Department of Higher Education and the Ohio Association of Community Colleges described a Gates-funded effort to enrich credential records across 22 community colleges, offering stipends, monthly supports, and a January marketing launch after May202D August enrichment.
Ohio higher-education leaders described a coordinated, Gates-funded effort to expand credential transparency across community colleges and beyond.
Shree Vithya Upalapathy, of the Ohio Department of Higher Education (ODHE), said Ohio has engaged with Credential Engine since 2019 and performed statewide bulk uploads from the state27s higher-education information system. Those bulk uploads exposed data inconsistencies and gaps because the state27s HEI collects a narrower set of fields than the registry requires. "The bulk upload that we did sets a very, very minimal baseline," Upalapathy…
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