Why It Matters
- Ideas and policies that fuel inequity are often hidden and embedded across college campus operations.
- Dismantling inequitable structures and attitudes takes a thorough analysis of opportunities and policies as well as targeted professional development.
How We Help
- Achieving the Dream works with over 300 Network colleges across the country, helping them to identify and address equity issues on their campuses.
- Our staff, coaches, and subject matter experts act as partners to design and deliver solution-oriented consulting and coaching services customized to the context and needs of each institution.
Related Services
Build a student-centered, evidence-based campus culture with ATD’s intensive three-year experience
- Partnerships with two expert coaches
- Strengths and opportunities analysis
- Support for a customized action plan
Dig deeper into policies, practices, and procedures around equitable student success.
- Highly customized coaching experience
- Guidance on action plan creation
- Monthly check-ins to sustain momentum
Related Innovations
The growing movement for racial equality has reinforced the urgency for our college leaders to be equipped with the tools they need to dismantle structures and policies that serve as barriers for racially minoritized students.
Launched in 2019, Community College Women Succeed (CCWS) is an initiative to identify and promote effective strategies that help adult women students, particularly student mothers, succeed in college.
Equity Toolkit
Achieving the Dream’s Equity Toolkit brings together lessons from research and Achieving the Dream’s two decades of experience working with community colleges to create more equitable institutions and help more students complete college and find careers that pay family-sustaining wages. The toolkit provides comprehensive research, tools, and resources to help college teams design and operationalize equity-centered approaches to all aspects of the college’s work as well as provides lessons learned from ATD Network colleges that have successfully increased student outcomes and eliminated equity gaps.
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Equity coaches and consultants
ATD’s team of expert coaches and consultants have multiple years of experience working with higher education leaders, administrators, faculty, and staff to advance equity, access, and inclusion at their institutions.
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