During “California’s Best Practices: Pathways From Prison to College,” we were honored to showcase the incredible work of UCI LIFTED. The LIFTED team shared the process of creating a UC bachelor’s degree program in prison, who is involved, and how it is growing.
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Broadband internet is vital to our quality of life—yet it is treated as a luxury in the marketplace. Our communities and digital equity advocates will be looking to the California legislature to lead us into a new era by classifying broadband internet as a public utility.
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No one better understands the needs of the postsecondary community than those who directly implement, use, and benefit from OER. Join us in welcoming the Spark Community Advisors, who will ensure the Spark Grants funding cycle’s investments are community guided and effective.
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Unlock opportunities for incarcerated students with UCR LIFTED! Through a Spark Grant, UCR will offer Bachelor of Arts degrees in a California prison. Learn about the expansion of the LIFTED model and join the model to create degree pathways in prison.
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The Student Basic Needs Coalition (SBNC) is addressing the significant gap in student enrollment in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) by leveraging a student-led approach. Through a Spark Grant, they will support five or more California higher educational campuses, directly helping lessen food insecurity.
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Housing is one of the most complex and expensive basic needs students and their families face. While most efforts are siloed in different systems and sectors, the Foundation for the Los Angeles Community Colleges will seek to understand how to work across California’s higher educational systems to collaboratively house students.
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The 2023 Smart Justice Spark Grantees are creating an educational summit to spread the Pathways to College model, helping incarcerated women build careers, and establishing a BA pipeline in prison.
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Katie Wagman, Textbook Affordability Fellow, explores the impact of automatic textbook billing programs have on students and ways to protect students’ interests.
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The California Student Parent Pooled Fund seeks to address the unique challenges faced by student parents, fostering equity and systemic change for this overlooked demographic. Get to know the inaugural cohort of grantees!
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Through a Spark Grant, Believe in Students will center the voices of students struggling to meet their basic needs, while educating faculty and staff members through a new online offering of the #RealCollege Curriculum.
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