俄亥俄州三所学院获400万美元联邦拨款：帮中断学业的学生重返校园完成学位
位于美国俄亥俄州克林顿县威尔明顿市（Wilmington, Clinton County, Ohio）的威尔明顿学院（Wilmington College）10月30日宣布，该校与辛辛那提州立技术与社区学院（Cincinnati State）、南方州立社区学院（Southern State Community College）三校共同获得一笔为期五年、总额400万美元的联邦拨款，专门帮助中途中断学业的学生重返校园、完成学位或证书。
这笔拨款来自2026年度「强化院校计划」（Strengthening Institutions Program），由美国劳工部代表美国教育部管理发放。项目由辛辛那提州立牵头，三校分别代表大型城市公立社区学院、私立文理学院与乡郊公立社区学院三种不同类型的学校。
据全国学生信息研究中心（National Student Clearinghouse Research Center）2025年《上过大学、无学历》报告，全美有超过3,700万名劳动年龄成年人上过大学却没有拿到任何学历证书；2023-24学年有超过100万人重返校园，但只占这一人群的不到3%。
辛辛那提州立校长罗宾·胡普斯（Robbin Hoopes）表示，在完成学业前离开的学生已经在教育上投入了时间、金钱与希望；三校合力帮他们读完，既为这些学生打开大门，也壮大了本地区依赖的劳动力队伍。
新项目以辛辛那提州立此前用同类拨款建起的CState Complete计划为基础，该计划通过个性化联系、同伴连接与协调一致的帮扶，帮助离校学生克服返校障碍。2024年秋季至2025年秋季间，CState Complete已帮助988名学生重返辛辛那提州立，其中98名参与学生毕业、共获得104项证书或学位。
在此基础上，威尔明顿学院计划探索借助师生联系重新接触离校学生；南方州立社区学院则会按乡郊学生的需求调整联系与支持方式。威尔明顿学院校长科里·科克里尔（Corey Cockerill）说，学业上的暂停不该意味着这段旅程的终结，三校的目标是帮助学生顺利返校并走向毕业。
五年期内，三校将作为一个协作学习共同体，测试与改进各自的做法，衡量其对重新入学、留校与完成学业的影响，并把经验与实用指南分享给其他院校。
Three Ohio Colleges Win $4 Million Federal Grant to Help Students Who Stopped Out Return and Finish Their Credentials
Wilmington College in Wilmington, Clinton County, Ohio, announced on October 30 that it has joined Cincinnati State Technical and Community College and Southern State Community College in winning a five-year, $4 million federal grant to help students who stopped out of college return and complete a credential.
The project is supported by the 2026 Strengthening Institutions Program, administered by the U.S. Department of Labor on behalf of the U.S. Department of Education. Cincinnati State leads the partnership, which spans a large urban public community college, a private liberal arts college and a rural public community college, allowing the partners to test which approaches work across different institutional settings.
More than 37 million working-age Americans have attended college but earned no credential, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center's 2025 Some College, No Credential report. More than 1 million of them returned to college in the 2023-24 academic year, but they represented less than 3 percent of that population.
'Students who leave college before finishing have already invested time, money and hope in their education,' said Cincinnati State President Robbin Hoopes. 'By working together to help them finish, we can open doors for those students and strengthen the workforce our region depends on.'
The project builds on CState Complete, a Cincinnati State initiative developed through an earlier Strengthening Institutions Program grant that combines personal outreach, peer connections and coordinated assistance. From fall 2024 through fall 2025, CState Complete helped 988 students return to Cincinnati State, and 98 participating students graduated, earning 104 credentials.
Wilmington plans to explore faculty connections as a way to reconnect with former students, while Southern State will adapt outreach and support to the needs of rural learners. 'A pause in college does not have to mean the end of that journey,' said Wilmington College President Corey Cockerill.
Throughout the five-year project, the colleges will operate as a collaborative learning community, measuring effects on re-enrollment, retention and credential completion, and will share their findings and practical guidance with other colleges.
Wilmington College official announcement
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