Achieving the Dream
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Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count is a national initiative to help more community college students — particularly low-income students and students of color — succeed. The initiative works on multiple fronts — including efforts at community colleges and in research, public engagement and public policy — and emphasizes the use of data to drive change.
Strategies identified to help more students continue their studies and earn certificates and degrees include:
- Helping students better prepare for college-level work by focusing on developmental education.
- Engaging students in the classroom through new instructional techniques that include team learning and the combining of subjects to make learning more relevant to students’ lives.
- Using student success courses to teach skills such as time management and effective study skills.
Best Practices Exchange
October 29, 2013
McGavick Center, Clover Park Technical College
Participating Washington Colleges
There are six Washington colleges among the 23 that joined Achieving the Dream as part of the initiative’s 2006 expansion.
In 2011, as the six Washington colleges complete their final year in Achieving the Dream, ten new colleges join the national initiative.
Funding for Achieving the Dream
College Spark Washington continues to fund this initiative in Washington State. National Achieving the Dream is funded by a collaboration of foundations including Lumina Foundation for Education, Education Assistance Foundation, Heinz Endowments, Houston Endowment Inc., Knowledge Works Foundation, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and Nellie Mae Education Foundation.
More Information
Information about Washington state policy opportunities related to improving success for low-income students and students of color is provided in the Achieving the Dream Policy Report completed in February 2010
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For more information about Achieving the Dream, go to www.achievingthedream.org, or contact Heather Gingerich, Program Officer, at 206-461-5326 or heather@collegespark.org.
If you have questions regarding Washington colleges in Achieving the Dream, please contact Michelle Andreas, SBCTC, mandreas@sbctc.edu, or 360-704-4338.
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