The PACCE initiative was designed to identify and scale promising strategies for increasing the enrollment and reenrollment of adult learners in high-quality credit and non-credit programs. [...] Adult ESL learners benefit from CMC faculty and staff who share similar backgrounds, Spanish and dual language speaking and comprehension skills and immigrant and Latino identities. [...] With the PACCE grant and other funding, CMC explored a series of questions about their ESL offerings and their English-language learners: Were learners enrolling only in non-credit courses for English language acquisition? Would they be interested in credit-bearing courses and credential pathways? They conducted surveys and gleaned more insight from the adult ESL learner perspective. [...] Many faculty and administrators at CMC have much in common with their ESL learners, like their Spanish and dual language speaking and comprehension skills and immigrant and Latino identities. [...] About Equal Measure At Equal Measure, we hold that building sustainable equity strategies in a postsecondary context requires that colleges assess (1) their institutional history and readiness to implement equity strategies, (2) the history and context (like economics and demographics) of the communities they are intended to serve, (3) and what learner populations in their community have and conti.
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