6 NATION’S CITIES WEEKLY
January 30, 2012
NLC, USCM
Presidents Engage
NLC President Ted Ellis, mayor, Bluffton, Ind., left, and
U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) President Antonio
Villaraigosa, mayor of Los Angeles, during USCM’s 80th
Winter Meeting.
The meeting, held earlier this month in Washington, D.C.,
serves as a forum for mayors and Washington leaders to
come together and discuss pressing issues impacting cit-
ies and metro areas.
The mayors heard from a number of Washington-based
speakers during the meeting.
Photo by David Hathcox
Migration Policy Institute Accepting Entries for the
E. Pluribus Unum Prizes for Immigrant Integration
by Ricardo Gambetta
American cities, particularly
those with dynamic and grow-
ing economic bases, attract
immigrants from all over
the world. Over the past few
decades, cities across the United
States have become increasingly
diverse. During the past few
years, immigrant integration
efforts are gaining importance
across the country, especially
because integration is a two-way
process, requiring adjustments
on the part of both newcomers
and their host communities.
Details:
Get more infor-
mation about the E. Pluribus
Unum Prizes, including how
to apply, from the Migration
Policy Institute website at www.
migrationinformation.org/
integrationawards.
College, from page 3
and implementation. Emerging
issues across the partnerships
include the development of new
methods of engaging students
and families in local completion
efforts and crafting effective
citywide public will-building
strategies.
Partners also discussed how
to reengage disconnected youth
and dropouts and visited the
CUNY Prep program, a sec-
ondary school serving students
ages 16 to 18 who have left
traditional high schools but will
complete their GED and move
on to success in college.
Of the 14 teams that par-
ticipated, four represented the
CLIP implementation sites:
San Francisco; Riverside, Calif.;
Mesa, Ariz.; and New York
City. Six teams represented
CLIP-affiliated sites: Boston;
Dayton, Ohio; Louisville, Ky.;
Philadelphia; Phoenix; and
Portland, Ore.
Graduate NYC! and New York City’s Efforts to Increase College
Completion Rates
Details:
To learn more about
the Communities Learning
in Partnership initiative, visit
www.nlc.org/iyef or contact
Andrew Moore at (215) 848-
6910 or moore@nlc.org.
The Graduate NYC! initiative seeks to
increase the proportion of New York City’s 1. 1
million public school students who receive a
postsecondary credential. Specifically, the part-
nership will work toward the goal of increasing
the associate degree completion rate within the
CUNY system from 10 percent to 25 percent
by the year 2020.
The city has made key investments in
CUNY’s Accelerated Study in Associate
Programs (ASAP), which aims to help at
least half of its participating students graduate
within three years. As of September 2010, 55
percent of CUNY ASAP students earned their
associate degrees within this time frame, more
than triple the national average three-year
graduation rate of 16 percent for all urban
community colleges.
In harmony with the goals of Graduate
NYC!, the New York City Department of
Education has also invested heavily in the
implementation of more rigorous academic
standards and assessments that reflect college
readiness goals and related professional devel-
opment for teachers and administrators to
enhance classroom instruction.
Indicative of each institution’s commit-
ment to collaboration, the Graduate NYC!
team’s work has led to an innovative data
sharing strategy involving the Department of
Education and CUNY, which will facilitate
the use of student data to track college success
indicators across the two institutions. The ini-
tiative’s data team is currently mapping a plan
to develop a data warehouse to maintain this
information.
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