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State Policy for Expanding Access to High-Demand Jobs: The Role of G3, GO Virginia, and Virginia’s Community Colleges

State Policy for Expanding Access to High-Demand Jobs: The Role of G3, GO Virginia, and Virginia’s Community Colleges

CCRC | July 2025

Richard Kazis & Pascale Mevs

This brief examines two statewide workforce-focused initiatives, G3 and GO Virginia. The authors present a snapshot of how these initiatives interact on the ground and describe opportunities for more deliberate and strategic efforts to better align their goals and investments.

Institutional and Student Responses to Free College: Evidence From Virginia

Institutional and Student Responses to Free College: Evidence From Virginia

CCRC | September 2024

Daniel Sparks & Sade Bonilla

Using administrative data, this paper analyzes Get a Skill, Get a Job, Get Ahead (G3)—a free community college initiative that Virginia implemented in 2021—and shows that both institutions and students responded to the tuition-free messaging and eligibility criteria.

The ARCC Network is led by the Community College Research Center, the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, and Wheelhouse: The Center for Community College Leadership and Research.

The ARCC Network lead team is supported by the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education, through Grant R305X220022 to Teachers College, Columbia University. The opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not represent views of the Institute or the U.S. Department of Education.

2025. All rights reserved.

The ARCC Network is led by the Community College Research Center, the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, and Wheelhouse: The Center for Community College Leadership and Research.

The ARCC Network lead team is supported by the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education, through Grant R305X220022 to Teachers College, Columbia University. The opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not represent views of the Institute or the U.S. Department of Education.

2023. All rights reserved.