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Achieving the Dream Honors Guilford Technical Community College 
Author: Richard Hart
Date: February 2, 2010
Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count, a national initiative to help more community college students succeed, and Lumina Foundation for Education today announced that Guilford Technical Community College (GTCC) has been honored with the second annual Leah Meyer Austin Institutional Student Success Leadership Award. GTCC received the award during the opening of the annual Achieving the Dream Strategy Institute in Charlotte, NC.
Achieving the Dream Holds Fifth Annual Strategy Institute; Nearly 1,000 Attendees Representing Over 100 Institutions to Participate
Author: Richard Hart
Date: February 1, 2010
Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count, a national initiative that helps more community college students succeed, will host a record number of attendees at its annual Strategy Institute February 2–5, in Charlotte, NC.
Twenty-One Colleges Earn Achieving the Dream Leader College Designation
Author: Richard Hart
Date: February 1, 2010
Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count (ATD), a national nonprofit organization that helps more community college students succeed, announced that twenty-one ATD colleges have earned its newly created Leader College designation by virtue of sustained improvement on key student achievement indicators.
Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count Announces William Trueheart as CEO
Author: Richard Hart
Date: December 3, 2009
Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count, which focuses on student success nationwide, announced today that Dr. William Trueheart has been named Chief Executive Officer of the five-year-old initiative.
Twenty Community Colleges in Seven States Join National Student Success Initiative
Author: Richard Hart
Date: June 29, 2009
Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count, a national initiative to help more community college students succeed today announced that 20 community colleges in seven states have joined the initiative. With the addition of these colleges, the initiative has grown to include 102 institutions – 98 colleges and four universities -- in 22 states.
National Student Success Initiative Honors Valencia Community College
Valencia Community College, recognized for student success initiatives and closing achievement gaps, receives the $25,000 Leah Meyer Austin Institutional Student Success Leadership Award.
Author: Susan Flath
Date: February 17, 2009
Chapel Hill, N.C. – Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count, a national initiative to help more community college students succeed, and Lumina Foundation for Education today announced that Valencia Community College has been honored with the inaugural Leah Meyer Austin Institutional Student Success Leadership Award. Valencia received the award during the opening of the annual Achieving the Dream Strategy Institute in San Francisco. Learn more about the Leah Meyer Austin Institutional Student Success Leadership Award.
National Initiative to Help Community College Students Succeed Expands to Michigan
Six Michigan colleges join Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count; receive $450,000 grants to plan, launch and implement student success strategies
Author: Zachary Brousseau
Date: June 26, 2007
Chapel Hill, N.C. – Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count, a national initiative to help more community college students succeed, today announced the selection of six Michigan colleges joining the initiative. The initiative has now grown to 84 participating institutions in 15 states. This marks Achieving the Dream’s first expansion into Michigan, made possible through new funding partnerships with the W.K. Kellogg and Kresge foundations.
Arkansas and Massachusetts Colleges Join National Initiative to Help Community College Students Succeed
Four colleges in each state join Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count; receive $450,000 grants to plan, launch and implement student success strategies
Author: Zachary Brousseau
Date: June 6, 2007
Chapel Hill, N.C. - Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count, a national initiative to help more community college students succeed, today announced the names of eight colleges joining the initiative in Arkansas and Massachusetts. The colleges are part of the initiative's latest expansion, which has added 24 colleges in eight states, bringing the total number of participating institutions to 82 colleges in 15 states.
National Initiative to Help More Community College Students Succeed Will Expand to 24 New Colleges in Eight States
Total investment in Achieving the Dream to approach $100 million
Author: Zachary Brousseau
Date: April 16, 2007
Chapel Hill, N.C - Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count, a national initiative to help more community college students succeed, will add 24 new colleges in eight states, bringing the total number to 82 participating institutions in 15 different states.
Lumina Foundation renews commitment to Achieving the Dream
Lumina Foundation for Education has committed up to $18 million in additional funds over five years to Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count
Author: Lumina Foundation
Date: March 1, 2007
INDIANAPOLIS - Lumina Foundation for Education has committed up to $18 million in additional funds over five years to Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count, a multiyear initiative aimed at improving student success at the nation's community colleges. The appropriation, approved unanimously by the Program Policy Committe of Lumina's Board of Directors, brings Lumina's total expected investment in Achieving the Dream to nearly $74 million and extends its commitment to the initiative through 2012.
Initiative to Help Community College Students Succeed Expands to Pennsylvania and Washington State, Adds More Schools in Texas
Twenty-three institutions join Achieving the Dream, receive $50,000 grants, become eligible for additional funding up to $400,000
Author: Zachary Brousseau
Date: July 27, 2006
INDIANAPOLIS - Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count, a national initiative to help more community college students succeed, will expand to 23 new campuses in Pennsylvania, Texas and Washington state. The initiative provides participating colleges with grant money and support to implement strategies designed to help more students - particularly students of color and low-income students - earn degrees, complete certificates or transfer to other institutions to continue their studies.
Community Colleges Awarded National Grant to Help More Students Succeed
Colleges Part of National Initiative That Includes Funding and Broad Support
Author: Robert Gilbert
Date: June 16, 2005
INDIANAPOLIS - Twenty-seven community colleges in five states each have awarded a $400,000 multiyear grant as participants in Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count, a national initiative that promotes change to improve student success in community colleges. Each college will receive its implementation grant over four years to support institutional change. The grants were awarded by Lumina Foundation for Education.
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