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The

Trailblazer Initiative

Driving Policy Change 

to empower all students

The widen the path trailblazer initiative

The WTP Trailblazer Initiative is a national storytelling project that will elevate the stories of learners overcoming the impossible, employers creating on-ramps, institutions closing systemic gaps, and advocates fighting for lasting change.

 

Through Trailblazer stories, we will raise awareness of the real-life challenges facing today’s students and highlight opportunities to create policy change.

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Higher Learning Trailblazers

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Cuyahoga Community college

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northern virginia community college

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southern new hampshire university

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university of louisiana system

ARE YOU A TRAILBLAZER?

Through collaboration with learners, institutions of higher education, partner organizations, policymakers, and stakeholders from across the political spectrum, we are working toward an equitable and inclusive system of higher education.

-JULIE PELLER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, HIGHER LEARNING ADVOCATES

The LATEST

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The Edge: Adult Students Need ‘More Ladders and Fewer Chutes’

-Chronicle of Higher Education

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The new Congress has an opportunity to modernize our approach to learning and working.

-The Hill

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A more inclusive view of higher learning begins with thinking about it as more than a one-and-done experience

-The Job

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