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New White Paper from ASA and JFF: Gen Z and Employers Perceptions of Non-Degree Pathways
Options. It’s hard to imagine life without them. Yet, for generations we’ve told young people that college is the only path to success. In a recent study, 53% of today’s high schoolers said they are unlikely to attend college. So, if not a degree, how will they prepare for the workforce? ASA and JFF have…
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The State We’re In: Career Readiness in America
During this year’s ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, ASA’s SVP of Advocacy and Corporate Social Responsibility, Julie Lammers, moderated an insightful panel discussion on the condition of career readiness, whether we are properly preparing students for the future, and if not, how we can fill the gaps. The first of its kind, the Coalition for…
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Best Practice in Youth Work-based Learning: Address Common Barriers
In part three of our blog post series on best practices for youth work-based learning, we explore how some states are solving for the universal issues that can impede the widescale adoption of on-the-job learning experiences for high school students. Our state-by-state research has found that while different regions can face unique challenges in implementing work-based learning…
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Best Practice in Youth Work-based Learning: Support Access for Underserved Students
ASA is committed to increasing awareness of state policies and practices that are successfully encouraging and supporting high-quality work-based learning experiences at the high school level. Our recent guide, High School Work-based Learning: Best Practices Designed to Improve Career Readiness Outcomes for Today’s Youth, highlights examples from states across the country that are leading the way in…
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The Winners of Solve Together 2.0 Showcase Gen Z Ingenuity
It’s truly incredible what young people are capable of when given an opportunity to think outside the box and create real-world plans for real-world problems. It is the crux of our mission to ASA: to increase access to highly engaging career readiness learning experiences that foster students’ understanding of postsecondary education and career pathways. That’s…
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Best Practices in Youth Work-based Learning: Ensure Broad Eligibility and Widespread Equitable Access
At American Student Assistance, our goal is to increase the number of states committed to ensuring all youth younger than 18 have equitable access to robust, high-quality work-based learning programs, with policies in place to support program funding, infrastructure, quality, and accountability. To that end, we recently released the comprehensive guide, High School Work-based Learning: Best…
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Gen Z Career Learning is about Agency, Voice, and Choice
Gen Z is a generation like no other — and when it comes to their future planning, they want us to listen. In fact, 67% of Gen Zers say they don’t want to be told what to do in planning their futures, and only half say they want to attend a traditional four-year college. So…
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Careers Being Explored by Today’s Young People
The future is wide open for the next generation in the workforce. But it’s critical that we help guide today’s young people to find education-to-career paths that align with their skills and interests. To do this, it’s imperative that we meet them exactly where they are: on their mobile devices. Enter FuturescapeTM, ASA’s mobile platform that…
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Amplifying High Quality, Non-Degree Pathways
Across the nation, employers are collaborating with higher education systems to help solve the employer pipeline issue. But is it enough? With postsecondary enrollment down and only 53%* of kids likely to go to college, should employers change their mindset about requiring degrees? What’s replacing the candidate quality assurance if not a degree? During recent…
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Educator PD: Key to Increasing Student Achievement
Whether you call it staff development, training, in-service, professional learning or PD, the intent is the same — to increase educator effectiveness and improve learning outcomes. To achieve a goal of ensuring that every child has career-connected experiences and sustainable economic mobility, we must prepare our educators. During the recent 2022 SXSW EDU Conference, ASA…
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