Higher Education Consultation Leveraging our Communities for Adult Learners

The goal of this project is to bring to the attention of community foundations and state policy makers the enormous potential and importance of helping young adults through college. By the end of the complete project, community foundations in ten identified Michigan communities will have a clearer sense of the number of young adults in their regions who are positioned to complete college within 3 to 5 years; they will have data on the institutional capacity needed to serve these individuals and its adequacy to meet demand; they will have a better understanding of the attitudes, values and beliefs held by these individuals; and they will have evidence about the pay-off in economic and social benefits associated with a successful effort to get more of these individuals to re-enroll and graduate..