A Promise to What and For Whom? What it’ll take to get policy right on Free Community College

Update: 2021-07-29

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Host Paul Fain is joined by Russell Lowery-Hart, president of Amarillo College, and Bill Pink, president of Grand Rapids Community College, to discuss free college. They share their experiences running successful college promise scholarship programs and their ideas for what good policy would look like to expand free college nationally. The episode concludes with a sense-making segment with JFF’s Lexi Barrett and David Altstadt. Read JFF’s blog for a recap of key takeaways and policy and programmatic resources.

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A Promise to What and For Whom? What it’ll take to get policy right on Free Community College

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