俄亥俄州三校获400万美元五年期联邦拨款助未毕业学生返校完成学位：辛辛那提州立领衔，南州社区学院与威尔明顿学院参与
俄亥俄州希尔斯伯勒市消息—南州社区学院（Southern State Community College）11月6日公布，该校与辛辛那提州立技术与社区学院（Cincinnati State）、威尔明顿学院（Wilmington College）组成的三校伙伴关系，获得一笔五年期、400万美元的联邦拨款，用于帮助曾就读大学但未取得学位的学生返校并完成学业。拨款来自2026年「强化机构计划」，由美国劳工部代表美国教育部管理，项目由辛辛那提州立领衔。
据三校公布，国家学生信息中心研究中心2025年《读过大学、无学位》报告显示，全美有超过3,700万适龄成年人曾就读大学但未取得任何学位证书；2023—24学年有超过100万名这类学生返校，但仅占该群体总数的不到3%。项目将沿用辛辛那提州立以早先一笔「强化机构计划」拨款建立的「CState Complete」模式，该模式以个人化联系、同伴连接与协调援助帮助学生克服返校障碍：2024年秋季至2025年秋季，该项目帮助988名学生重返辛辛那提州立，其中98人毕业、共取得104份证书。威尔明顿学院计划借教师联系重建与离校学生的纽带，南州社区学院则将把外联与支持方式调整到乡村学生的需求。
辛辛那提州立校长罗宾·胡普斯（Robbin Hoopes）表示，提前离校的学生已经投入了时间、金钱与希望，三校合作帮助他们完成学业，既为学生打开大门，也加强本地区所依赖的劳动力。南州社区学院校长妮科尔·罗兹（Nicole Roades）表示，许多人离校是因为生活遇阻、而非缺乏能力或意愿。五年期内，三校将作为协作学习共同体，测试并改进外联方法，衡量其对再注册、留存与学位完成的影响，并计划与他校分享成果。
Three Ohio Colleges Win a Five-Year, $4 Million Federal Grant to Bring Back Students Who Left Without a Degree: Cincinnati State Leads, With Southern State Comm
HILLSBORO, Ohio — Southern State Community College announced on November 6 that it is part of a three-school partnership, led by Cincinnati State Technical and Community College and also including Wilmington College, that has been awarded a five-year, $4 million federal grant to help former college students who never finished a degree return and complete one. The grant is funded through the 2026 Strengthening Institutions Program and administered by the U.S. Department of Labor on behalf of the U.S. Department of Education, according to the colleges.
The colleges cite the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center's 2025 Some College, No Credential report: more than 37 million working-age Americans have attended college but never earned a credential, and while more than 1 million of those former students returned to college in the 2023–24 academic year, that represented less than 3% of the total population. 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, the programme helped 988 students return to Cincinnati State, and 98 of those students graduated with 104 credentials, according to the college. Wilmington College plans to explore faculty connections as a way to reconnect with former students, while Southern State, a rural public community college, will adapt outreach and support to the needs of rural learners.
Cincinnati State President Robbin Hoopes said students who leave college before finishing have already invested time, money and hope in their education, and that working together to help them finish opens doors for those students and strengthens the workforce the region depends on. Southern State President Nicole Roades said many left college because life presented obstacles, not because they lacked the ability or desire to succeed. Over the five-year grant period, the three colleges will work as a collaborative learning community, testing and refining outreach approaches and measuring their effects on re-enrollment, retention and credential completion, with plans to share findings with other colleges.
来源链接：南州社区学院公布（经 Scioto Valley Guardian 刊载，sciotovalleyguardian.com）： https://sciotovalleyguardian.com/2026/11/06/southern-state-cincinnati-state-and-wilmington-college-win-4-million-grant-for-returning-students/
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