
No Longer out of Reach: Blended Competency-Based College Models for Accelerating Higher Education for Refugee Students
Author(s) -
Meagan A. Hoff,
Khaleel Shreet
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of comparative and international higher education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2151-0407
pISSN - 2151-0393
DOI - 10.32674/jcihe.v12iwinter.1380
Subject(s) - refugee , medical education , higher education , psychology , qualitative research , mathematics education , pedagogy , sociology , political science , medicine , law , social science
Higher education offers a pathway to gain or recuperate professional credentials, particularly after experiencing forced displacement. Yet only 1% of refugees pursue postsecondary studies due, in part, to numerous obstacles on that path to college. The purpose of this study was to understand how a competency-based college program facilitates access to college for students from refugee backgrounds. This paper details the findings from a qualitative case study with refugee-background students enrolled in a college program that combines a competency-based model with in-person support. Using the ecological model of college readiness, we found that refugee students benefited from a combination of the project-based program format coupled with in-person support.
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