Peter P. Smith is senior vice president for academic strategies
and development at Kaplan Higher Education. Before joining the
company, in 2007, he helped to create and then run the Community
College of Vermont, was founding president of California State
University-Monterey Bay, and represented Vermont in Congress. His
new book, Harnessing America's Wasted Talent: A New Ecology of
Learning (Jossey-Bass), is out this month.
Cassandra Leach always planned to go to college. As an honors
student and editor of her high-school newspaper, she dreamed of a
career in journalism. But after a couple of years at Morgan State
University, in Baltimore, she ran out of money and had to leave the
historically black college.
Her plans to return dissolved when, at 19, she got pregnant. She
eventually got out of a bad relationship with the baby's father,
only to get pregnant again six months later with someone else.
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Welcome to Hopes for Higher Education
Hopes for Higher Education is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the overall quality of life for youth aging out of the foster care system. We aim to impact the educational resiliency of foster youth by forming direct connections with higher education institutions and community organizations. Our efforts are aimed to improve, impact, and initiate life long learning.
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Hopes for Higher Education is a Certifying Organization for the President’s Volunteer Service Award
In respect to sub-scales, the study found that for youth preparing to age out of foster care higher levels of emotional reactivity were associated with lower levels of responsibility. Further, in comparison to their non-foster care peers, youth in foster care scored significantly lower in their sense of relatedness, responsibility, and emotional reactivity. Results from this study will add to the existing body of literature concerning foster youth emancipation.
Federal Student Aid, an office of the U.S. Department of Education, provides federal student aid, which includes grants, loans, and work-study. Each year millions of students wait until the last minute to file the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). Apply early! If there are any problems with your paper work you will have [...]
Selected from thousands of entries across the United States, Dr. Deborah Sims founder of Hopes for Higher Education is one of 10 national recipients of the Maybelline New York Beauty of Education Award, an award that recognizes women who motivate, mentor and make a difference in their communities through the power of education. Sims will [...]
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