More than 1,400 Community College Leaders Convene in Dallas this Week to Increase Student Success and Completion

DALLAS, TX (February 27, 2012) – The nation’s most comprehensive reform network for community college student success in higher education history is convening this week in Dallas for “D.R.E.A.M.” - Achieving the Dream’s 2012 Annual Meeting on Student Success.  More than 1,400 influential policy-makers, thought-leaders, and practitioners - who are all dedicated to increasing community college student success nationwide - are coming from across the nation to Dallas to share results, announce new multi-million-dollar partnerships, and direct the course of the reform movement for the upcoming year. *Detailed agenda can be viewed here.

*It is fitting that “D.R.E.A.M.” is hosted in Texas, home to 35 Achieving the Dream Institutions (10 of which are Round 1 Colleges), Achieving the Dream Board Member Joaquin Castro, and Achieving the Dream Investors: Greater Texas Foundation, Houston Endowment, Inc., and The Meadows Foundation. 

Who:

• George V. Grainger, Senior Grant Officer, Houston Endowment, Inc. 
• Paul Fain, Senior Reporter, Inside Higher Ed
• Jamie Merisotis, President & CEO, Lumina Foundation
• Rosemarie Nassif, Special Advisor to the Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of Education
• Wynn Rosser, Executive Director, Greater Texas Foundation
• Robert G. Templin, President, Northern Virginia Community College and Chairman of       the Achieving the Dream Board of Directors
• William E. Trueheart, President & CEO, Achieving the Dream
• Jason Whitely, Senior News Reporter, WFAA-TV
• Pamela D. Anglin, President, Paris Junior College
• Glenda O. Barron, President, Temple College
• Michael Dreith, President, Western Texas College
• Larry Durrence, President, College of the Mainland
• Kathyrn K. Eggleston, Interim President, Richland College
• Jimmy L. Goodson, Interim President, Coastal Bend College
• Zachary Hodges, President, Houston Community College System-Northwest College
• William M. Holda, President, Kilgore College
• J. Paul Matney, President, Amarillo College
• Paul J. McCarthy, President, El Centro College
• Dolline Men, President, Tarrant County College District
• Shirley A. Reed, President, South Texas College
• Richard M. Rhodes, President, Austin Community College
• Ernest E. Roberts, Interim President, El Paso Community College District
• James Henry Russell, President, Texarkana College
• Christa Slejko, Interim President, North Lake College
• Millicent M. Valek, President, Brazosport College

What:

• "D.R.E.A.M." - Achieving the Dream’s 2012 Annual Meeting on Student Success

When:

• Tuesday, February 28, 2012 - Friday, March 2, 2012

Where:

• Hyatt Regency Dallas
  300 Reunion Boulevard
  Dallas, Texas

Highlights:

• February 28, 2012: Leah Meyer Austin Institutional Student Success Leadership Award winner announced
• February 29, 2012: New $2.5 million corporate partnership and pass-through grant announced
• March 1, 2012: Phi Theta Kappa Student Plenary
• March 2, 2012: DREAM Big for College Video Contest winner announced

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