Partnerships

The Association of Latino Administrators and Superintendents aims to provide leadership at the national level that assures every school in America effectively serves the education needs of all students with an emphasis on Latino Youth by building capacity, promoting best practices, and transforming educational institutions.

The California Association of African American School Administrators is a membership organization that supports educational excellence for African American, Latino and other students of color.

The Civic Nation initiative targets Generation Z to celebrate education, change the national conversation, and reach students directly where they are by giving them a space to create content while also navigating the college-going process. ACT supports these efforts, and CEO Marten Roorda sits on the advisory board for Civic Nation.

Better Make Room initiative targets Generation Z to celebrate education, change the nationally conversation, and reach students directly where they are by giving them a space to create content while also navigating the college-going process. Better Make Room is a campaign within the Reach Higher initiative.

ACT’s Center for Equity and Learning supports the College Advising Corps in its efforts to increase the number of low-income, first-generation college, and underrepresented high school students who enter and complete higher education.

ACT’s Center for Equity in Learning joins College Horizons in its effort to facilitate higher education to Native American students by providing college and graduate admissions workshops to American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian students/participants from across the nation.

Excelencia in Education accelerates Latino student success in higher education by providing data-driven analysis of the educational status of Latinos, and by promoting education policies and institutional practices that support their academic achievement. ACT’s Center for Equity in Learning, together with Excelencia in Education, is pursuing Latino student success in higher education while bridging the equity gap in education.  We partner with Excelencia on the Condition of College and Career Readiness for Hispanic Students.

The National College Attainment Network builds, strengthens, and empowers communities and stakeholders to close equity gaps in postsecondary attainment for all students. ACT’s Center for Equity in Learning partners with NCAN to cultivate higher education access and success to all students.

We are fueling Roadtrip Nation’s Beating the Odds Roadtrip initiative with advisory support from Better Make Room. Roadtrip Nation creates content, products, and experiences to help individuals pursue fulfilling careers. Learn more about the Beating the Odds Roadtrip and how we’re celebrating the stories of people who beat the odds and made it to college here. In addition to the road trip, we teamed up with Better Make Room and career experts at Roadtrip Nation to create a unique community where individuals who persisted in overcoming odds to complete post-secondary education can share their stories with students and community members to learn from – and grow with – each other. Learn how you can share your road on our Share Your Road platform—a platform for people to pass down the lessons they’ve learned on this crazy journey of life and careers.

We partner with Univision to provide Parent Academies across the nation. The Parent Academy is a place to find expert advice on how to engage in your children’s education and helping them prepare for college.

The Asian & Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund is the nation’s largest nonprofit provider of college scholarships for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and creates opportunities for students to access, complete, and succeed after post-secondary education.

The Council for Opportunity in Education is a nonprofit organization, established in 1981, dedicated to furthering the expansion of college opportunities for low-income, first-generation students, and students with disabilities in all 50 states, Washington, D.C., the Pacific Islands, and Puerto Rico.

Georgetown University Center of Education and the Workforce is an independent, nonprofit research and policy institute that studies the link between education, career qualifications, and workforce demands. ACT’s Center for Equity in Learning partnered with Georgetown’s Center of Education and the Workforce on examining working learners.

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The National Indian Education Association advances comprehensive, culture-based educational opportunities for American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians.

The National Council for Community and Education Partnerships (NCCEP) is a national nonprofit, nonpartisan organization working to increase access to higher education for economically disadvantaged students. Confident that education paves the way to social equity, NCCEP advances college access through advocacy, training, and research.

UCLA’s Institute for Globalization, Immigration, and Education conducts multidisciplinary and comparative research engaging policymakers, practitioners, and institutional leaders. Their research serves to inform efforts to expand opportunities, reduce barriers, and improve the wellbeing of diverse, vulnerable, and marginalized students.

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UNCF’s mission is to build a robust and nationally-recognized pipeline of under-represented students who, because of UNCF support, become highly-qualified college graduates and to ensure that our network of member institutions is a respected model of best practice in moving students to and through college.