Impact Report
Together with our higher education and employer partners, we’re proving what’s possible when you empower the next generation of leaders with the skills, networks, confidence, and experience necessary to launch a strong career.
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What does this report cover?
Together with our dedicated partners, Braven is reigniting the promise of the American Dream.
By 2032, we aim to serve 80,000 to 100,000 students, equipping 25,000 new undergraduates each year with the career-readiness skills, networks, confidence, and experience to thrive through the Braven model.
So far we’ve helped to empower nearly 14,000 Fellows across the country and we’re just getting started. In this report, we shine a spotlight on the powerful journeys of these remarkable leaders as we explore five critical questions about Braven’s impact:
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Why our work matters
Only about one quarter of the 1.4 million students who are the first in their family to go to college or who have limited financial resources will graduate and secure a strong first job or enter graduate school.1
That’s about one million students every single year who aren’t on the path to the American Dream.
Mission
In collaboration with our higher education and employer partners, Braven empowers promising college students with the skills, networks, confidence, and experience necessary to transition from college to strong economic opportunities, which lead to meaningful careers and lives of impact.
Vision
The next generation of leaders
will emerge from everywhere.
The Braven Equation
In combination with students earning a four-year degree, Braven seeks to support career readiness, thereby ensuring students graduate ready to secure a strong first opportunity.
Braven refers to the sum of these four career-readiness factors as the Braven Equation.
The Braven Experience
Braven empowers promising college students on their paths toward quality economic opportunities through a semester-long, cohort-based course—developed with input from our higher education partners and faculty—and support that extends beyond the course, continuing through six months after college graduation.
In our core higher education model, students take the course for credit. Students who come through BravenX via college success organizations receive a financial stipend in lieu of credit.
Are our Fellows securing quality career outcomes that put them on the path to the American Dream?
Braven 2024 Graduates
Secured Strong Roles Post-Graduation
Of the 980 Braven Fellows who graduated from college in 2024, 84% are employed or enrolled in graduate school and 78% secured quality or pathway outcomes.2
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Coordinator,
Housing Services for Next Door Solutions to Domestic Violence
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With Spelman College and Braven’s help, Kynadi Franklin-Carter built the foundation for her path to the American Dream.
Fellow Enrollment
in Graduate School
In 2024, 23% of our 980 graduates went on to graduate school within six months of graduation.
Enrollment in graduate school is one of the ways Braven defines a quality outcome.
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Internships Often Lead to Strong First Opportunities After College
For college students, internships serve as critical proof points of experience that open professional doors.
The influence of internships on post-graduate success is underscored by our data: Braven Fellows nationwide who have completed at least one internship in college are 18 percentage points more likely to secure a quality first opportunity than Fellows who have not (67% vs 49%).
Rise of AI Presents Opportunities and Concerns for New Graduates
AI is likely to automate tasks that are tedious and routine–those typically performed by entry-level talent.3
But in the rapid rise of AI, there is still tremendous value in a college degree.
With the advancement of AI, the human skills students practice while earning a college degree are more important than ever: problem solving, communication, collaboration, and real-world experience. Just as important is students’ AI literacy: the ability to leverage AI thoughtfully, strategically, and confidently to enhance their work and impact.
College helps early career
professionals develop:
While no one is certain of the true impact AI will have on the job market, research shows that economic opportunity will increasingly favor workers with higher levels of education and training.
According to The Future of Good Jobs report produced by Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce, while there will be good jobs in every educational pathway in 2031, only 15 percent will be available to workers on the high school pathway, compared to 66 percent on the bachelor’s degree pathway and 19 percent on the middle-skills pathway.7
Are we impacting more students and maintaining program quality?
~14,000 Braven Fellows Served Nationwide to Date
During the 2024-2025 school year, Braven supported 3,500+ Fellows nationwide.
2024-2025 Braven Fellows in our Core Higher Education Model
2,940 Fellows completed the Braven course in the 2024-2025 school year at:
The City College of New York
Delaware State University
Northern Illinois University
Rutgers University-Newark
San Francisco State University
San José State University
Spelman College
2024-2025 Fellows are:
of Fellows who take the
Braven Accelerator Course feel
Braven has improved their chances of getting a job a great deal or quite a bit.
Net Promoter Score:
a widely used customer satisfaction metric on a scale of -100 to 100 that measures how likely a Fellow would recommend Braven to a friend. Above 0 is good, above 20 is favorable, and above 50 is excellent.
Top 5 Majors
Are we supporting Fellows to secure internships and complete college?
Pathways to Securing Internships for All Students
Securing an internship during college is challenging.
Common reasons students cite for not interning include prioritizing paid work over unpaid internships due to financial need and the difficulty of finding and securing an internship due to a lack of social networks, managing heavy course loads, and a lack of awareness about how to find internships.10
In 2023, approximately 8.2 million students wanted an internship, but only 3.6 million had the opportunity.8 This means only about four in ten college students secured an internship during their undergraduate experience.
Even in light of these barriers, internships remain an important means for organizations to recruit college-level talent for entry-level roles.
According to the National Association of Colleges and Employers’ (NACE) 2024 Internship & Co-op Survey, 53% of eligible interns on average were converted into full-time, entry-level hires by their employers in the 2023-2024 academic year.9
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Braven Fellows Outpace Graduates Nationally in Internship Attainment
Compared with graduates nationally, Braven 2024 graduates were 22 percentage points more likely to have at least one internship during their college experience, better positioning them to secure a strong first opportunity post-college.
The Braven Experience Drives Meaningful Increase in Internship Attainment
Internships are a key step toward strong career outcomes.
In the 2024-2025 school year, Braven Fellows saw a 19 percentage point uplift in internship attainment between the start and end of the Accelerator course, speaking to an important element of the immediate impact of the Braven experience.
Ashling Partners
–
MS Power
Platform Consultant,
Ashling Partners
Braven Doubles
Size of Capitol Hill
Policy Fellowship
Originally launched in 2024 in partnership with Rutgers University-Newark, the Capitol Hill Policy Fellowship has expanded nationally in its second year.
The program now includes eight undergraduate Braven Fellows from Rutgers–Newark, San José State University, and The City College of New York, all placed in paid internships in Congressional offices in Washington, D.C.
The program is designed to support students who are first in their families to go to college and/or face financial constraints to access public service careers through a comprehensive nine-week Fellowship experience.
Fellows receive fully covered housing, transportation, a professional wardrobe stipend, and a generous living allowance. They also receive personalized coaching, mentorship, and career development support from Braven and higher education partners.
Representative LaMonica McIver (NJ-10)
Representative Herb Conaway (NJ-13)
Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee-- Minority Staff
Representative Lois Frankel (FL-21)
Representative Nydia Velazquez (NY-7)
Representative LaMonica McIver (NJ-10)
Senator Tim Kaine (VA)
Public Affairs & Administration
Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman (NJ-12)
Investing in
Future Leaders
Started in 2024, The Sharon G. Eubanks-Pope Internship Grant awards Braven Fellows with a stipend for both full-time and part-time opportunities, bridging the financial gap for students seeking to build their career experience.
In 2025, 14 Braven Fellows were awarded the grant.
COLLEGE
Bronx Defenders Intern
COLLEGE
Mathematics Research Assistant at Swarthmore College
COLLEGE
R&B Therapeutic Services LLC Intern
NYU Resilient Lab Intern
COLLEGE
Cook County Sheriff’s
Office Intern
COLLEGE
EndocrineCo. Intern
UNIVERSITY
Accelerant Intern
STATE
UNIVERSITY
Hardy Williams Mastery
Charter School Intern
COLLEGE
Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital Intern
COLLEGE
Tolbert Counsel LLC Intern
COLLEGE
University Of Miami Global Institute Intern
COLLEGE
International Rescue Committee Intern
COLLEGE
Legal Aid Division Intern
COLLEGE
Research Assistant at Rennie Harris Puremovement
Accenture
Encouraging Levels of
College Completion
Braven Fellows have achieved a 92% six-year on-time graduation rate.13
Nationally, only about 7 in 10 students graduate within six years of college enrollment.14 Braven Fellows, who typically join us during their sophomore or junior year, are persisting and graduating at an encouraging rate.
Are our Fellows developing the career readiness skills, networks, and confidence needed for success?
Growth in
Career-Readiness Skills
The Braven experience focuses on the following six career-readiness skills: career navigation, problem-solving, teamwork, communication, organization, and leadership.
Why these career-readiness skills?
These career-readiness skills are:
In 2024-2025, Braven Fellows achieved an average Accelerator course pass rate of 92% and an average final grade of 82%, showcasing strong career-readiness skill mastery.
- Reflects on strength, values, and interests
- Explores multiple career options
- Takes career actions such as making plans, creating a portfolio, and building networks
- Presents ideas clearly and purposefully
- Listens actively to understand and asks questions
- Demonstrates empathy and respect
- Leads from values
- Grounds in purpose and assets
- Learns continuously from feedback and reflection
- Works effectively towards shared goals
- Navigates differences
- Holds self and others accountable for deliverables
- Plans and prioritizes tasks
- Monitors progress and adjusts
when faced with challenges - Gets things done
- Defines the problem and identifies root causes
- Designs potential solutions
- Tests and implements solutions
Network Strength
Extensive research has illustrated the importance of networks or social capital in career navigation and success.22
Braven supports students to build professional networks consisting of strong relationships and to build the skills necessary to mobilize those networks to advance their career goals.
To measure students’ Network Strength, we leverage resources from the Search Institute. We capture a critical component of a student’s network strength.
In 2024-2025, Braven Fellows scored a 4.08 out of 5.0 in Network Strength.23
To put these results into context, on a scale of 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree), Braven Fellows report that by the end of the Accelerator, their networks encompass trusted strong ties and valuable weak ties that they can rely on for professional support.
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Growth in Confidence Measures: Self-Efficacies
Each semester, Braven measures growth in self-efficacies from the start to the end of the Braven Accelerator.
Self-efficacy is a person’s belief in their ability to succeed in various situations and is associated with academic and lifetime success. It is not typically measured through traditional assessments like standardized tests, but plays a large role in explaining job search, career search behaviors, and career outcomes.
In 2024-2025, Braven Fellows showed statistically significant growth24 across all three non-cognitive self-efficacy measures.
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Are we building employer and higher education partnerships with true shared value?
Employer Spotlight:
This year, Atlassian is one of Braven’s partners investing $250,000 and providing crucial programmatic support.
Braven’s collaboration with Atlassian helps open doors to the American Dream.
Braven has 14 projects in
Jira Service Management across all departments at Braven.
Atlassian provided $75,000+ in product support, fueling Braven’s ability to scale impact.
Braven’s transition to the Atlassian suite enables our teams to:
Atlassian
“Our partnership with Braven shows what’s possible when we go all-in: our funding fuels their growth, our technology amplifies their reach, and our volunteers become champions after meeting Braven Fellows who just need that first door opened. If you believe talent is everywhere but opportunity isn’t, Braven is proving we can change that and they’re inviting all of us to be part of the solution.”
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RED Lab
Higher Education Spotlight: San Francisco State University
In Fall 2024, Braven launched a partnership with San Francisco State University, expanding our footprint in the Bay Area to equip even more students with the skills, networks, confidence, and experience they need to launch strong first jobs.
San Francisco State University
"Partnering with Braven reflects SF State’s deep commitment to student success. Together, we’re ensuring that more of our students—many of whom are first in their families to attend college—graduate not only with a degree but also with the confidence, networks, and career readiness to thrive in the workforce."
Braven National
Faculty Council
The Braven National Faculty Council is a distinguished collective of faculty leaders from Braven’s partner institutions.
Faculty have deeply informed our model from the start. This past year we formalized their engagement through our Inaugural Faculty Council. These trailblazers serve as strategic advisors in shaping the evolution of our curriculum. They’ve discussed topics ranging from Braven’s approach to generative AI in the curriculum to strengthening alignment between the Capstone Challenge and AAC&U’s high-impact practices.
Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Professor,
Northern Illinois University
Assistant Teaching Professor
Africana Studies and Political Science Internship and Study Abroad Director,
Rutgers University-Newark
Associate Director of Field Education & Teaching Instructor,
Rutgers University-Newark
Associate Professor,
Sociology and Criminal Justice; Interim Assistant Dean of the College of Humanities, Education & Social Sciences,
Delaware State University
Director for Liberal, Integrated & Leadership Studies,
Delaware State University
Professor of Rhetoric & Writing and Director of First-Year Writing,
San José State University
We couldn’t do it without you!
Higher Education Partners & Employer Partners
Chicago State University (BravenX)
The City College of New York
Delaware State University
National Louis University
Northern Illinois University
Rutgers University - Newark
San Francisco State University (launched Fall 2024)
San José State University
Spelman College
5 Strong Scholars Foundation
Achieve Atlanta
Arkansas Commitment
Ascend Public Schools
Associated Colleges of Illinois
Augustana College
Breakthrough Kent Denver
Carmen Schools of Science & Technology
Chicago Scholars
Chicago State University
City Year Chicago
Coney Island Prep Public Schools
Cooperman College Scholars
Coral Academy of Science Las Vegas
Cristo Rey Network
DREAM Charter School
DSST Public Schools
Evanston Scholars
Excel Academy Charter School
Excellence Community Schools
Freedom Preparatory Academy Charter Schools
IDEA Public Schools
Judson University
KIPP Metro Atlanta
KIPP Forward
KIPP NJ
Lehman College
LISA Academy
National Association for Urban Debate Leagues
Newark Youth Career Pathways Program
North Central College
Noble Schools
Rivet School
SEEDS
The Academy Charter School
The Wight Foundation
Uncommon Schools
Uplift Education
UtmostU
Adobe
Apollo Opportunity Foundation
Atlassian
Barclays
Blackstone Charitable Foundation
Capital One
Deloitte
JPMorgan Chase Foundation
LinkedIn
Morgan Stanley
NBA Foundation
Prudential Financial
Allstate
Brooks Brothers & The Golden Fleece Foundation
Cognizant US Foundation
Salesforce
San Jose Sharks Foundation
The College Board
UBS
Audible
Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance
Blackbaud
BlackRock
CBRE
CIBC Bank USA
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice
CME Group Foundation
Cornerstone Research
NerdWallet
Northern Trust
nvp
Panasonic North America
Pathward N. A.
PwC
Silver Lake
Taco Bell Foundation
United Airlines
Wells Fargo
Devils Youth Foundation
Hall Capital Partners
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey
J&L Companies
M&T Bank
Neuberger Berman
Rakuten International
WSFS Bank
1Huddle
AEA Investors
Amazon
Cadent
Catalina
Chicago Sky Foundation
Choose New Jersey
Cisco
Cramer-Krasselt
Enkey.ai
Exelixis
GEM Realty Capital
Google
Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment
Hispanic Foundation of Silicon Valley
IQVIA
Jacobs Levy Equity Management
McKinsey & Company
McMaster-Carr
Medline
Metro Atlanta Chamber
Micron
National Coalition of 100 Black Women
NetApp
PagerDuty
Philadelphia 76ers
Southern New Hampshire University
Staffmark
Student Leadership Network
Summit Trail Advisors
Sutter Health
Synchrony
Texas Instruments
Unacast
Vanguard
Visa
Workday
Philanthropic Supporters ($10k+)
A Better Chicago Fund, a Fund of the Robert R. McCormick Foundation
Abrams Foundation
Akila Grewal
Allan & Gill Gray Philanthropies
Anonymous x 8
Arbor Rising
Arrow Impact
Arthur & Toni Rembe Rock
Atlanta Foundation
Axim Collaborative
Bennett Raccah Charitable Fund
Bill Unger
Bloomberg Philanthropies
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Carroll and Milton Petrie Foundation
Charles & Helen Schwab Foundation
Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies
Charles Ashby Lewis & Penny Bender Sebring
Charles Hayden Foundation
Charter School Growth Fund
Chicago Community Trust
College Futures Foundation
Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan
Crankstart Foundation
Crown Family Philanthropies
Cynthia Bowman
David Cohen & Kristen Argo
Deloitte Foundation
ECMC Foundation
Ellie’s Foundation Fund
Finnegan Family Foundation
Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation
Gilliam Foundation
Give for the Future Fund
Give Forward Foundation
Grace & Steve Voorhis
Gray Foundation
Howard P Colhoun Family Foundation
Impact100 Essex
Irene Esteves
Jeffrey H. & Shari L. Aronson Family Foundation
John & Wendy Cozzi
John Greenwood
John Matthew Sobrato & Andie Sobrato
Kasey McJunkin
Ken & Vicky Lang
Ken Ohashi & Adam Freed
Laffey-McHugh Foundation
Leon & Toby Cooperman Family Foundation
Leslie Family Foundation
Linda & Brian Sterling
Lindmor Fund
Lisa & Joseph Amato
Longwood Foundation
LuLuMa Foundation
Lynn Selassie
M&T Weiner Foundation
Mansueto Foundation
Marc and Jeanne Malnati Family Foundation
McCance Family Foundation
Meghan Mckay & Allen Thorpe
Michael & Susan Dell Foundation
MR Macgill
Mr. & Mrs. Richard Witmer, Jr.
Muriello Family Giving Fund
New Profit, Inc.
Origami Works Foundation
Osa Foundation
Paul M. Angell Family Foundation
Paula Sneed & Lawrence Bass
Prosper Road Foundation
René Kern
Richard & Susan Braddock
Ron & Kathy Sonenthal
Sandy & Jim Reynolds
Sarah Berghorst
Sarah Peter
Schreiber Philanthropy
Schultz Family Foundation
Shellye Archambeau
Siegel Family Endowment
Siragusa Family Foundation
Sobrato Family Foundation
Square One Foundation
Steve Mandel
Strada Foundation
Stupski Foundation
Susan & Thomas Dunn
Susan Grant
Tammy and Bill Crown
The Carson Family Charitable Trust
The Cleveland Avenue Foundation for Education
The Ichigo Foundation
The John P. & Anne Welsh McNulty Foundation
The Joseph Pedott Charitable Fund at The Chicago Community Foundation
The Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund
The Mayer and Morris Kaplan Family Foundation
The MCJ Amelior Foundation
The Molly Blank Fund of The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation
The Support New Jersey Fund
Tipping Point Community
Victoria Foundation
Vivo Foundation
Walton Family Foundation
William and Charlene Glikbarg Foundation
Yield Giving
Younger Family Fund
Shellye Archambeau
Roger G. Arrieux, Jr.
Richard Barth
Phillip L. Clay
John F. Cozzi
Susan Dunn
Irene Esteves
David S. Levy
Shalinee Sharma
Elizabeth Thompson
Harry L. Williams
Charlie Wolfson
Addendum
Course outcomes for 2024-2025 BravenX Fellows
580 Fellows completed BravenX during the 2024-2025 school year.
2024-2025 BravenX Fellows are:
of BravenX Fellows who take the
Braven Accelerator Course feel
Braven has improved their chances
of getting a job a great deal or quite a bit.
Net Promoter Score:
a widely used customer satisfaction metric on a scale of -100 to 100 that measures how likely a Fellow would recommend Braven to a friend. Above 0 is good, above 20 is favorable, and above 50 is excellent.
Top 5 Majors
All-time BravenX Impact
BravenX Partners
2024 FELLOW
COLumbia university
Communications Strategist
Columbia Undergraduate Student Life
“Participating in the BravenX Accelerator has been one of the most impactful parts of my college experience. It gave me the structure and space to reflect on the kind of professional I want to become and helped me align my personal goals with my career aspirations. I especially appreciated being able to apply my current skills through a capstone project that felt both relevant and exciting. Because of BravenX, I feel more prepared and confident in the job search process—I truly believe it’s given me an edge in recruitment.”
Spotlight:
IDEA Public Schools
IDEA Public Schools believes that each child can go to college. Since 2000, IDEA Public Schools has grown to a network of tuition-free, K-12 public charter schools in the United States, currently serving 87,000 college-bound students in 145 schools across Texas and its affiliates.
In the last 17 years, IDEA has sent nearly 100% of its graduates to college and remains on track to uphold that legacy.
of Alumni Affairs,
IDEA Public Schools
“At IDEA Public Schools, our Alumni Affairs Team proudly partners with Braven to drive real, measurable outcomes for our alumni.
With 15,000 alumni today, and on track to serve 50,000 by 2030, we’re scaling and engineering an alumni support model that proves positive 60%+ college graduation rates amongst our alumni.
Braven shares our commitment and urgency. They’re not just leading a movement. They’re transforming what success looks like for students. This partnership directly fuels our mission: to prepare our graduates for success in college and life, generally, and to democratize college completion, specifically. We’re not just imagining change, we’re building it, together through real partnership.”
Endnotes
- Statistics are drawn from data provided by the National Center for Education Statistics, including figures from its Digest of Education Statistics (January 2024 table) and a report on Pell Grant recipients (February 2018). Further data is from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center’s “Transfer and Progress” report (February 2024) and the IPEDS Trend Generator (data as of Winter 2020–21).
- We have jobs data for 88% of the Braven Class of 2024. Jobs data reflects Braven core sites only: City College of New York, Northern Illinois University, Rutgers University-Newark, San José State University, Spelman College.
- Thompson, Derek. “The Job Market Is Worse Than It Looks—Especially for Young People.” The Atlantic, 18 Apr. 2025, https://www.theatlantic.com/economy/archive/2025/04/job-market-youth/682641/.
- McKendrick, John and Andrew Thurai. “AI Isn’t Ready to Make Unsupervised Decisions.” Harvard Business Review, 16 Sept. 2022, hbr.org/2022/09/ai-isnt-ready…supervised-decisions.
- Sanders, Nada R. and John D. Wood. “The Skills Your Employees Need to Work Effectively with AI.” Harvard Business Review, 3 Nov. 2023, https://hbr.org/2023/11/the-skills-your-employees-need-to-work-effectively-with-ai.
- Caddy, Becca. “How Does ChatGPT Know So Much about Everything? Here’s Where AI Gets Its Knowledge from.” TechRadar, 7 June 2025, www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/how-does-chatgpt-know-so-much-about-everything-heres-where-ai-gets-its-knowledge-from.
- Strohl, Jeff, et al. The Future of Good Jobs: Projections through 2031. Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, 2024, https://cew.georgetown.edu/cew-reports/goodjobsprojections2031/.
- Williams, Candace, et al. Expanding Internships: Harnessing Employer Insights to Boost Opportunity and Enhance Learning. Business-Higher Education Forum, 2024. https://www.bhef.com/publications/expanding-internships-harnessing-employer-insights-to-boost-opportunity-and-enhance.
- Jackson, Johnny. “Intern Hiring Is Stable for 2024: NACE Survey.” Diverse: Issues In Higher Education, 25 Apr. 2024, https://www.diverseeducation.com/students/article/15669496/intern-hiring-is-stable-for-2024-nace-survey.
- Marken, Stephanie, and Tyisha Curtis. “Four in 10 College Students Have Had Internship Experience.” Gallup, 2023, https://www.gallup.com/education/509468/four-college-students-internship-experience.aspx.
- Strada Education Foundation. “From College to Career: Students’ Internship Expectations and Experiences.” Strada Education Foundation, 17 May 2023.
- Internship data reflects Braven core sites only: City College of New York, Northern Illinois University, Rutgers University-Newark, San Jose State University, Spelman College.
- Six-year graduation rate of Braven Fellows includes students who enrolled as first-time freshmen at SJSU and RU-N, not including those who took Braven as seniors, transfers, or international students. SJSU and RU-N are the only core sites included in the six-year graduation rate calculation because they have reached a critical number of graduates to date.
- National comparison is the implied six-year graduation rate for Pell Grant recipients who were full-time, first-time degree/certificate-seeking undergraduate students in the 2017 starting cohort (adjusted) at four-year public Title IV institutions, after accounting for those who persisted from freshman to sophomore year and from sophomore to junior year. Sources for data: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, IPEDS, Winter 2023–24, Graduation Rates component (provisional data); Pitcher, McCall, and Parson, Kelle. “More to the Retention Story: Exploring Second- to Third-Year Retention at 4-Year Colleges and Universities.” American Institutes for Research. July 2023.
- National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE). (2022). Career Readiness: Development and Validation of NACE Career Readiness Competencies.
- Association of American Colleges and Universities. (2009). Valid Assessment of Learning in Undergraduate Education (VALUE). Author. https://www.aacu.org/initiatives/value.
- Finley, A.P. (2023) The Career-Ready Graduate: What Employers Say About the Difference College Makes. AAC&U. https://dgmg81phhvh63.cloudfront.net/content/user-photos/Research/PDFs/AACU-2023-Employer-Report.pdf.
- NACE. (November 2023). Job Outlook 2024. https://www.naceweb.org/docs/default-source/default-document-library/2023/publication/research-report/2024-nace-job-outlook.pdf.
- Joseph B. Fuller, Kerry McKittrick, et al. (Fall 2023). Unlocking Economic Prosperity: Career Navigation in a Time of Rapid Change. Published by the Harvard Kennedy School.
- Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, Workplace Basics: The Competencies Employers Want, 2020. (cited above as: Carnevale, Fasules, and Campbell, 2020). https://cew.georgetown.edu/cew-reports/competencies/.
- Rios, J.A., Ling, G., Pugh, R., Becker, D., & Bacall, A. (2020) Identifying Critical 21st-Century Skills for Workplace Success: A Content Analysis of Job Advertisements. Educational Researcher. 49(2) 80-89. https://journals-sagepub-com.ezproxy.cul.columbia.edu/doi/epub/10.3102/0013189X19890600.
- Fuller, 2023; Scales et al., 2020.
- Pre- and Post-Accelerator averages in confidence self-efficacy measures are as follows:
Job Search Self-Efficacy (on a Likert scale of 1-7): Pre - 5.36, Post - 5.69
Career Self-Efficacy (on a Likert scale of 1-7): Pre - 5.80, Post - 5.94
Networking Self-Efficacy (on a Likert scale of 1-5): Pre - 2.76, Post - 3.53 - Network and confidence measures are pulled from Fellow Pre- and Post-Accelerator Survey responses.
