Achieving the Dream

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Colleges

This website offers many resources that can help your college increase student success.

Use the resource materials on the Community College Strategies page to help your college develop a culture of evidence and boost student success.

Look at national and state data on student outcomes, and ask questions about where students are succeeding and where they are falling behind at your college. Push your college to examine gaps in outcomes among different groups of students.

Explore the research on promising practices to help guide your college in directions that will enhance student success.

State & National Policymakers

This website is a resource for developing policies that support student success.

Learn about community colleges’ essential role in educating Americans and preparing a strong workforce and understand the challenges faced by community college students -- only half meet their educational goals.

Learn about state policy options that promote student success, and learn about the goals for policy change in the Achieving the Dream states.

Consider how the right data can help policymakers make better decisions.

Researchers

Achieving the Dream promotes institutional decision-making that is informed by data. Higher education researchers and the institutional researchers at community colleges have important roles to play in creating a culture of evidence at community colleges.

Use the data and research reports on this website to inform your work.

Design research projects that can generate useful knowledge about promising practices and policies at community colleges, and share your findings. In the future, the Promising Practices area of this website will be a venue to share findings from research and program evaluations at Achieving the Dream colleges and other institutions.

The Public

There is much you can do to help more community college students succeed.

Learn about community colleges’ essential role in educating Americans and preparing a strong workforce and understand the challenges faced by community college students -- only half meet their educational goals.

Advocate for greater public support for community colleges and their students.

Consider ways that your business, school, community organization, or religious organization might provide support to community college students who face barriers to success.