Leah Meyer Austin Award

About

Achieving the Dream’s highest recognition is the Leah Meyer Austin Award. The award comes with a $100,000 prize.

Presented annually, the Leah Meyer Austin Award recognizes a college in the ATD Network that exemplifies the highest levels of performance across access, momentum, completion and postcompletion outcomes that align with the organization’s Community Vibrancy Framework — a comprehensive model that defines what it takes for colleges to drive student success, economic mobility, and community prosperity. Award recipients show sustained and measurable impact on key student success metrics that lead to strong completion and postcompletion outcomes that advance economic mobility, with institutional practices around seven capacities that are deeply embedded in culture and planning.

Eligibility

Eligible ATD Network institutions are Leader Colleges or Leader Colleges of Distinction in good standing, have been participants in the ATD Network for at least three years, and have not won the award in the last five years.