Newsletters

Colleagues, I’m glad to be writing to you for the first time as interim director of the Gates Foundation’s Postsecondary Learning & Navigation team. I hope you’ve read about the…

Earlier this month, we shared the next chapter of the Gates Foundation’s U.S. education strategy, including our commitment to double the rate of growth and help 10 million more 18-to-34-year-olds…

Dear colleagues – Summer offers something that’s increasingly rare: space to slow down. For many of us, the rest of the year is spent reacting to meetings, headlines, deadlines, and…

Colleagues — The conversation around postsecondary value continues to evolve. For years, much of the national debate centered on a broad question: Is college worth it? But improving college value…

Dear colleagues, In our last newsletter, we focused on the first challenge our Digital Holistic Student Supports (DHSS) work aims to solve: disconnected data. Today, information about students is often…

Dear colleagues— For too many college students, and the staff supporting them, navigating college can feel harder than it should. This is the first in a two-part series on our…

Dear colleagues— In our work, we spend a lot of time talking about postsecondary value – what it means for students, which institutions are delivering it, and what it takes…

Dear colleagues, I hope each of you is looking forward to restorative time with friends and family as we close out the year. Much of our work this year has…