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The Department of Education has issued a Request for Information (RFI) about promising and practical strategies, practices, programs, and activities that have improved rates of postsecondary success, transfer, and graduation. This second RFI is targeted at institutions of higher education (IHEs), non-profit organizations, States, systems of higher education, adult education providers, researchers, and institutional faculty and staff, or consortia of these entities,

The Department is most interested in information about strategies that emphasize the quality of what students learn and timely or accelerated attainment of postsecondary degrees or certificates, including industry-recognized credentials that lead to improved learning and employment outcomes.

The Department is also particularly interested in information about promising and practical strategies that could be replicated or scaled up to help IHEs and States meet the President's goal for postsecondary degree attainment and improve student success generally. In addition to descriptions of these strategies, we are interested in receiving information about the factors perceived as most important to a strategy's successful implementation, the evidence that led the respondent to determine the importance of these factors, the types of environments or contexts for which the practice is most likely to succeed, and the issues that the respondent believes would need to be addressed in order to encourage successful replication elsewhere.

Each response to this RFI should contain the following elements:

1. Contact information;
2. Brief one-paragraph abstract;
3. Detailed description of the promising and practical strategy; and
4. Applicable keywords or tags (meta data tags).

Responses to this RFI may be submitted at any time after today's invitation, but in order for a response to be considered in the second round of reviews, it should be submitted by November 30, 2012. The Department will review and post responses received after November 30, 2012 on a regular basis.

Submissions related to this RFI to the following email address: collegecompletion@ed.gov. Mail submissions can be directed to Frederick Winter, Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, Office of Postsecondary Education, U.S. Department of Education, 1990 K Street NW., Room 6145, Washington, DC 20006-8544.

Click here for the complete text of the September 12 FEDERAL REGISTER notice containing the RFI.

Also note: On January 30, 2012, the Department published in the January 30, 2012 FEDERAL REGISTERS the initial RFI about promising and practical strategies that have improved rates of postsecondary success, transfer, and graduation. In order for a response to be considered in the first round of reviews, the Department requested responses by April 30, 2012. The first RFI collection is now available on the the Postsecondary Completion Web site at http://www.ed.gov/college-completion/promising-strategies