Connecting Opportunities
So multiple pathways through learning are valued and connected.
Pave pathways between workforce training, work-based learning, and higher education.
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Allow students to use Pell Grants for high-quality, short-term programs.
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Create a path to help more students access credit for prior learning (CPL).
Ensure learners can know, navigate, and access higher learning options that will bring economic mobility.
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Allow students to use federal financial aid for competency-based education (CBE) programs.
The 40 million Americans with some college and no credential have a path back into higher learning.
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Create a satisfactory academic progress, or SAP, reset.
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Create a Pell lifetime eligibility used (LEU) reset.
Related Resources
OP-ED: Creating Opportunities
Creating Opportunities That Will Lead to a Sustaining Wage, Economic MobilityCredit for Prior Learning (CPL) Backgrounder
How Credit for Prior Learning (CPL) Can Benefit Today’s Students