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Webinar: Midwestern Higher Education Compact hosts dual-enrollment forum; Minnesota P-20 and Complete College America outline equity-focused strategies
Summary
Speakers from Complete College America and Minnesota's P-20 Partnership described aligning dual/concurrent enrollment with college completion strategies, keeping student costs covered, expanding co-requisite supports, and using statewide convening to remove funding and policy barriers.
Complete College America and Minnesota's P-20 Partnership used a Midwestern Higher Education Compact webinar to argue that dual and concurrent enrollment should be reframed as a state-level strategy for college completion and equity, not merely an access program for high-achieving students.
Brandon Protus, assistant vice president for Alliance Engagement at Complete College America, said CCEA's goal is "to dramatically increase college completion rates and close institutional performance gaps," and urged a systems approach that aligns dual enrollment with colleges' guided pathways, advising, and supports.
"If we want to achieve equity," Protus said, "we need to put [marginalized] students in the middle," and described three stages of concurrent-enrollment practice: expanding access, aligning coursework with college pathways, and centering equity in who benefits. He recommended multiple…
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