Navigating Higher Ed Policy for Early Ed Advocates, During COVID and Beyond
Channel: New America
Date: 22/10/2020

Access to high-quality higher education is an important component of strengthening the ECE workforce. But for more early educators to realize the promise of higher education, significant reform is needed to improve access and degree program quality. Too often in ECE discussions about higher education reform, faculty members, deans, and higher education policy content experts are left out of the conversation.

This webinar is an opportunity to ask New America’s higher education policy experts questions you’re grappling with. Do you want to better understand gainful employment regulations? Do you have questions about student loan repayment guidelines and what they might mean for early educators? You’ll hear their take on the future of higher education and where ECE advocates can focus their attention.

We will cover how higher education issues pertain to early educators broadly, and explain how our team is thinking about these issues in our current context navigating COVID.

This webinar builds off of a report that New America will be releasing this month, Supporting Early Educator Degree Attainment: Takeaways from New America’s Working Group. In this report we identify key barriers institutions of higher education face to preparing early educators and explore ways institutions are overcoming those barriers. We also identify institutional, state, and federal levers that can be used to transform how institutions support and prepare early childhood educators.

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