Mark Milliron referenced this engaging project today at the Action Analytics Symposium. The video is from the project site, where they explain their work to gather stories from students across the nation about the challenges and hopes of students…clearly with a view toward advancing graduation and academic completion/success. Their Facebook page suggests they are especially focused on non-traditional students, promoting an “upcoming web series that follows non-traditional students through their daily struggle to complete school.”
The video stories are inspiring–like our students.
The consistent theme in the videos is that the underlying challenge for so many students is the balancing of work, home, and college, a compelling finding of the Gates Foundation report, With Their Whole Lives Ahead of Them: Myths and Realities About Why So Many Students Fail to Finish College.
