By Madeline Patton, Published March 2, 2012DALLAS — Eleven successful community college students with various science and liberal arts majors have one thing in common: they all thought about quitting school.Just enrolling was difficult enough. It took most of them more than five visits to campus to complete their initial registration.All of the students, who ranged in age from 20 to mid-50s, persevered because of their relationship with another person.
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1 Mar 2012
'Achieving the Dream' CEO to Deliver 2012 MCCC Commencement AddressPatch.com
29 Feb 2012
WAL-MART STORES, INC. : The Walmart Foundation Launches Partnership to help ...4-traders
29 Feb 2012
Fostering a Culture of EvidenceCampus TechnologySeveral national initiatives, including Achieving the Dream, made it important for community colleges to understand their students better. Community colleges were beginning to be required to collect a lot of information about their business processes ...
29 Feb 2012
DALLAS — Zane State College in Ohio has received the annual Leah Meyer Austin Institutional Student Success Leadership Award for its work on improving developmental education, retention rates and the college-readiness of its students.
25 Feb 2012
Students will represent Maryland as they tweet live from the nation's most comprehensive non-governmental reform movement for student success in higher education, Achieving the Dream’s 2012 Annual Meeting on Student Success, February 28–March 2 in Dallas, TX. The group will join influential policy-makers, thought-leaders, and practitioners from more than 160 institutions across 30 states.
“This is an opportunity of a lifetime for our students,” said Tyjaun Lee, vice president for student services at PGCC. “We are sending four shining examples of success and are confident they will share our story of transforming the lives of students here in Maryland,” she added.
23 Feb 2012
FIGs makes the transition into college smootherJunior CollegeIt is also part of TJC's "Achieving The Dream" initiative designed to help students succeed. FIGS participants enroll in linked courses, study together, and share declared majors while living in a designated residential hall.
22 Feb 2012
Levi Miller kept it simple.It turns out that was a smart move. Miller, 21, recently won the national "Achieving the Dream" T-shirt design competition.Since the Lake Elmo resident and Century College student won the contest he will receive $1,000 as well as have 1,000 meals donated to the charity of his choice. Plus, 1,000 of his T-shirts will be distributed at the national Achieving the Dream annual meeting in Dallas at the end of the month...
21 Feb 2012
Kay McClenney: The TT InterviewTexas TribuneSecondly the work of major national initiatives like Achieving the Dream and others around the country, where colleges themselves have started doing much more rigorously data-informed work focused on student success. We build on work being done at the ...
