The Grant
Goal
To help more community college students succeed,
especially student groups that traditionally have faced significant
barriers to success, including students of color and low-income
students.
Benchmarks
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Complete developmental courses and move to
credit-bearing courses
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Successfully complete courses identified as
gatekeeper courses, like Writing 101 and introductory Math
courses
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Successfully complete all their courses with a 2.0
or higher
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Consistently re-enroll from quarter to quarter
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Complete their certificate or degree
programs
Long-Term Goals
The grant has four Long-Term Goals to change
institutions, public attitudes, and public policy, and to create new
knowledge:
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Institutional Change: Colleges will use
data to identify problems, set goals, establish institutional
priorities, allocate resources and measure progress. These changes,
which will involve faculty, students, staff and communities, are
expected to affect structures, programs and services to improve
student outcomes.
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Public Policy: College leaders will advocate
locally and nationally for policies to promote student success,
including not only changes in data and accountability, financing, and
system alignment, but also support for institutional improvements that
promote improved student outcomes.
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Public Engagement: Colleges will form
partnerships with their communities, local employers, and other critical
audiences, who can advance the initiative's agenda, will exert pressure
on institutions and policy-makers to improve student outcomes, and they
will actively support colleges' efforts. Additional colleges will adopt
practices to improve student success.
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New Knowledge: Colleges, policy-makers and
higher education researchers will have meaningful data to benchmark
colleges’ performance based on student outcomes and will expand the
research on institutional policies and practices that improve student
outcomes will increase.
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