MISSION
Understand and improve policies and practices that lead to increased college retention, from high school graduation, to college entrance, first-year success, and to graduation and employment, for challenged, underrepresented and first generation students.
Goals
To provide professionals from higher education, secondary education, and community organizations, and others, a neutral forum for discussing important subjects in higher education, via small, affordable interactive conferences.
To conduct applied research – ideally through college-age and/or graduate interns – on key subjects, and to publish the results.
To advocate, both directly and via social media, issues and ideas re higher education to elected officials, state and federal government officials, post-secondary and secondary professionals, community-based professionals, and students.
CHERE, created in 2012, is a program of the Hartford Consortium for Higher Education, a 25 year-old not-for-profit agency focused primarily on college access. CHERE expands the Consortium’s programming to include a focus on success in higher education.
