Oakton Community College: Achieving Bigger DreamsDemonstrating a strong commitment to student success and completion, Oakton Community College is one of 13 institutions selected this year for inclusion in the Achieving the Dream National Reform Network – the nation’s most comprehensive non-governmental reform network for student success in higher education history. Oakton will immediately begin the challenging work of identifying and implementing evidence-based strategies for closing achievement gaps and increasing student retention, persistence, and completion rates.
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18 Jun 2013
Walla Walla Community College among few selected to school reform networkWalla Walla Union-Bulletin
17 Jun 2013
Walla Walla Community College has received unprecedented recognition this year. The Aspen Institute named WWCC as the co-winner of the 2013 Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence.More recently thebestschools.org, a leading higher education and careers website ranked Walla Walla Community College as the number one community college in the United States.The success that has generated this recognition can be attributed to at least three factors:SBltThe college is aligned with the needs of the community and region.
11 Jun 2013
New applications for Seminar and Program Development grants should be submitted by 5pm (EDT) on Friday, June 14, 2013 online, with hard copies arriving no later than Monday, June 17, 2013.
5 Jun 2013
This week, Luzelma Canales, Executive Director, Resource Development & Administration, Lone Star College System brings us along the path that her system has followed to adopting predictive analytics. Luzelma and others will share more about their analytics journey at the WCET Leadership Summit: Under the Sword of Data. If you’re not able to join us, watch the Frontiers blog next week for a dispatch from Salt Lake.
5 Jun 2013
Las Vegas Review-Journal
3 Jun 2013
DACC retains status as sole " Leader College " in New MexicoLas Cruces Sun-News
29 May 2013
South Texas College continues to fulfill its role as an Achieving the Dream Leader College by hosting Del Mar College and Laredo Community College at its Pecan Campus in March 2013 as part of the Texas Peer Coaching Initiative. The initiative is designed to accelerate the transfer of effective practices from college to college with the long-term goal of positively impacting sustainable student outcome gains in Texas.
29 May 2013
Achieving the Dream announced South Texas College student Melissa Leon as the winner of their DREAM Big for College and Your Future video competition on Wednesday, December 5, 2012.
23 May 2013
Pierce College has joined a national program to help community college students to stay enrolled in higher education and reach graduation.While this national program—Achieving the Dream—started seven years with high hopes of coaching student success, research has shown student completion has remained relatively unaltered.
