High School Students

We want to make the transition easier for underserved high school students by connecting them with resources and current programs within the region. Low income and first-generation students need extra supports to enroll in and complete college.

Adult Learners

A full 65 percent of the region's working-age adults have less than an associate’s degree; many of these workers have some college credit but never completed for various reasons. We need to make returning to college and completing a degree easier for these adults.

Veterans

Northeast Florida is home to five major military installations and is the nation’s number one requested end-of-duty tour. While local colleges offer veteran centers, we want to tackle some of the barriers that prevent veterans from attaining a college degree.



Welcome

Earn Up is a result of two years of collaboration and work by leaders of the region’s colleges, universities and K-12 school districts. To reach the collaboration’s aspirational goal of 60% attainment by 2025, the region needs to develop a sustainable, cohesive, cross-sector network of resources to serve specific target populations. Rather than trying to create new programs to address this need, the plan is designed to identify and organize current programs, lift up those offering the most promise to targeted populations and engage the business and philanthropic sectors to expand these successful initiatives.

What is Earn Up?

Earn Up is an ambitious higher education collaborative with a goal of having 60 percent of adults with training certificates or college degrees by 2025.

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