NCAN State Policy Toolkit

The National College Access Network's State Policy Toolkit is designed to help NCAN members and partners grow and strengthen their state-level advocacy work. Each policy issue in the Toolkit is derived from NCAN’s Model State Policy Agenda and is categorized under affordability or talent development.

By highlighting exemplar policy and programs and providing evidence that contextualizes issues affecting students, the Toolkit can augment the equally powerful stories of students for the use of advocates. Moreover, the Toolkit demonstrates impactful advocacy practices by featuring the policy efforts of several NCAN members.

This resource can serve as the starting point of organizational advocacy efforts, offer additional options for issues on which groups can lend their voice in the policy arena, identify programs or resources that can help organizations serve students directly or indirectly, and help initiate meaningful partnerships.