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A Philadelphia partnership for growing the region’s talent pool

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Change By Degrees 2012 GRADUATES CELEBRATE WITH PHILADELPHIA MAYOR MICHAEL NUTTER - COURTESY PEIRCE COLLEGE In higher education, there's the rhetoric and there's the reality. Nationwide, only 58% of those [...]

Penn State World Campus at Graduate! Philadelphia

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View Article Penn State has been a partner in Graduate! Philadelphia since 2010.  Now PSU's online division, World Campus, joins Abington and Brandywine campuses in providing opportunities for Graduate! Philadelphia [...]

Partners for Livable Communities: Business at the Table

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View Article Business at the Table: The Employer Drive for Higher Education Attainment is about communities uniting around a common goal to help drive economic development. The goal is closing the college [...]

HuffPost Noel Harmon: Encouraging Adult College Completion

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I recently found myself in the emergency waiting room (back spasms) and overheard a conversation between what I can only assume was a RN administrator and a new nursing student. [...]

Financial Voices WURD 900 AM: Tips for Adults Who Want to Return to College

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View Article Graduate! Philadelphia's Hadass Sheffer spoke with Sharmain Matlock-Turner and Comebackers about options and opportunities for adults who want to go back to college in the Philadelphia area.

Graduate Memphis helps adults complete college

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View Article On July 2, 2012, Leadership Memphis launched Graduate Memphis — a free college resource center that will help Memphis-area adults return to college. Designed to have a historic [...]

Graduate Memphis opens doors on Monday July 2, 2012 (The Commercial Appeal)

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View Article Leadership Memphis and the Memphis Public Library have announced the opening of Graduate Memphis, a college resource center for adults seeking advice on how to return to college.

Wired Academic: Graduate! Philadelphia Builds Movement

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Wired Academic Graduate Philadelphia Article At a store front in the Gallery Mall here, Hadass Sheffer tells her staff not to keep customer’s waiting more than a minute.  Their customers, [...]

National League of Cities: Connecting Residents to High-Wage Jobs

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National League of Cities Article Mayoral leadership to boost local college completion rates is both a recent and growing phenomenon, often spurred by dual goals of attracting and retaining high-wage [...]

College Completion (NPR/WHYY)

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Radio Times With Marty Moss-Coane