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Increasing Access to High-Demand Occupational Training: An Exploration of G3's Recruitment and Enrollment Strategies

24 Jul 2024

We draw on published enrollment and outcome data from VCCS and interview data collected from eight of the 23 community colleges implementing the G3 program to examine college-level G3 outreach, recruitment, and enrollment strategies and the process for awarding G3 aid. [...] Admissions and student services staff we spoke with described the G3 application and enrollment processes as potentially confusing on the front end due to program eligibility requirements and on the back end due to the last-dollar scholarship design. [...] The group of prospective students applying to college explicitly because of the G3 benefits may already plan to enroll in an eligible program but may require advising on their credit or noncredit program options, financial aid application (discussed in the next subsection), the credential they should pursue, and the number of credits to enroll in. [...] Efforts to better integrate recruitment and enrollment in credit CTE and noncredit workforce programs may be an opportunity for institutions to strengthen and streamline marketing, enrollment procedures, and advising in ways that can increase student access to G3-eligible programs and funds. [...] Later quantitative analyses will explore the effects of G3 policy features on student outcomes, such as requiring students to attend full-time in order to receive the living stipend, and whether the G3 aid amount is large enough to encourage lower income students to enroll in the five high-demand fields.

Authors

Maria Cormier, Richard Kazis, Nikki Edgecombe & Myci Atkinson

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Pages
17
Published in
United States of America

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