Web 2.0 Webinar Series

Description

The following resources were donated to Ohio on iTunes U by OACHE. The OACHE is an uncommon partnership of public higher-education institutions and 12 schools in the 32 counties of Appalachian that was established and funded by the State of Ohio in 1993 to increase the low educational attainment of the region's citizens. The program unites colleges, universities, 12 schools and the private sector to increase the region's college-going rate, currently only half the national average. The origin of the OACHE was a suggestion by farmer, famed restaurateur and then-member of the Ohio Board of Regents Bob Evans to the college presidents that they address the low college-going rate in his native Appalachian Ohio. Acting on this suggestion, the OBR funded a study, completed in 1992, that has become the definitive work on why Appalachians do not go to college. That study, titled Appalachian Access and Success, instigated the OACHE's creation.