Detroit was doing the Talent Dividend before the Talent Dividend was cool!

• Residents had historically enjoyed high wages despite relatively low education attainment

• Michigan Future, Inc. has done extensive research documenting the relationship between education attainment and economic prosperity

Developing a coalition

• Built off of work that began with a U.S. Department of Labor WIRED grant

• Partnership Co-Chaired by the Chancellor of the University of Michigan-Dearborn and the Managing Partner of Butzel Long (law firm)

Three “buckets” of work

• Improving college access• Improving college success• Improving college graduate

retention in the region

Improving College Access

• Michigan College Access Network• Excellent Schools Detroit • Michigan Future, Inc. High School Accelerator• FAFSA Completion Campaign• College Scholarships• Charter School Board Fellowship• Support for Common Core and related

assessments

Improving College Retention

• Achieving the Dream – Detroit Scholarship Fund

• Project WIN – WIN• Four-year university retention

Improving College Graduate Retention

• Intern in Michigan• Global Talent Retention Initiative of Michigan• Live Work Detroit• College Graduate Retention Surveys 2008 and

2013

Michigan Future, Inc.High School Accelerator

• Support the creation of new, quality high schools in the City of Detroit

• Goal of 85/85/85• Limit of 500 students• Fundamentally different models for teaching

and learning• Schools provide active support for students

beyond high school

Detroit Board Fellowship

• Approximately 100 charter public schools serving Detroit students

• The Chamber is partnering with the Detroit Parent Network to expand the pool of qualified applicants serving on charter boards

• Developed a recruit, train and placement assistance model

WIN – WIN / Achieving the Dream

• Over 600 associate degrees granted in the Detroit Region to people who had significant college credits but no credential

• Community College graduation / transfer rates have increased from 44% to 52% from 2002 cohort to 2007 cohort.

• Oakland University is playing a lead role in documenting/sharing best practices in four-year university success

College Graduate Retention Surveys

• Survey sent to over 30,000 Michigan public university 2007 graduates found that 49% had left the state within 8 months of graduation

• Similar survey of 2012 graduates found the 37% had left the state after a similar period of time

Intern In Michigan

• One stop internship clearing house designed to help connect college students to internships that cold turn into permanent jobs BEFORE students leave the region

• 28,000 students have registered over the last four years

• 2,000 employers have registered• 7,000 opportunities posted

Global Talent Retention Initiative of Michigan

• First of it’s kind program to retain foreign college students in the state

• 25,000 foreign students attending college in Michigan at any given time

• 31 Michigan colleges/universities participating• Outreach to students to better connect them to

Detroit and the rest of the state• Outreach to employers to help connect them to

students, technical assistance to employ foreign students

Live. Work. Detroit.

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Detroit Scholarship Fund

• Last dollar, placed based scholarship• Tuition free path to an associate's degree for

any Detroit high school graduate beginning with the class of 2013

• Students have a choice of any one of five community colleges in the region, with non-resident tuition covered

• Funding provided by the M.E.E.F.

DSF – By the Numbers

• 2283 students registered for the scholarship on-line last spring

• 628 registered as full-time students in the fall of 2013

• Doubled the number of full-time students from previous years

• They made a variety of community college choices

Student Success• Engaged the community colleges before

students enrolled and challenged them to develop student success plans

• Included orientation, guidance counseling, academic tutoring, early intervention

• DRC is piloting a mentoring program• Considering a summer bridge program and

new approaches to developmental courses

DSF – Student Success

• 80% of students required developmental courses upon entering community college

• 76% first to second semester retention• 48% on-track to make Pell required

satisfactory academic progress

DSF - Sustainability

• Tuition payments above and beyond Pell will total $350K - $400K this year.

• Projecting a need of about a million dollars for next year to support freshman and sophomore classes

• Detroit “Promise Zone” should create a public funding stream dedicated to scholarship support a few years down the road

DSF – Scholarship Growth

• Working to reconfigure and grow existing scholarships to offer tuition free paths to four-year universities for:– Detroit high school grads who meet academic

standards– Students who graduate from the DSF community

colleges and want to transfer to a bachelor degree program