Transition Initiatives

  • ABE to Credentials: A Breaking Through Initiative

    ABE to Credentials is a four-year community college initiative launched in 2011 that seeks to increase credential attainment through scaling up the successes of the Breaking Through Initiative and Washington State’s Integrated Basic Education and Skills Training (I-BEST). <more>

  • Achieving the Dream

    Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count is a national initiative aimed to increase the success of community college students, particularly those in groups that have been underserved in higher education. This initiative targets students who traditionally have faced the most significant barriers to success, such as low-income students and minority student populations. <more>

  • Adult Education Coordination and Planning (AECAP)

    The Adult Education Coordination and Planning project (AECAP) tested processes for state and local planning and interagency coordination in six states (Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Missouri, and Washington) at 12 local pilot sites. The project aimed at providing state adult education policymakers with skills and knowledge to expand their resources, work collaboratively with other state policymakers whose programs serve undereducated and economically disadvantaged adults, and enhance the capabilities of local adult basic education (ABE) programs and their partner agencies to work together effectively. <more>

  • Breaking Through

    Breaking Through is a demonstration project that aims at strengthening the efforts of community colleges to assist low-income and low-literacy adults prepare and succeed in occupational and technical degree programs. <more>

  • Complete to Compete

    Complete to Compete is an initiative launched by West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin III in his role as chair of the National Governors Association. The initiative focuses on increasing the number of students in the United States who complete college degrees and certificates and improving the productivity of the country's higher education institutions. While a number of states are already taking steps to boost college completion, Complete to Compete emphasizes the critical role that increased gubernatorial leadership and participation play in achieving meaningful progress. <more>

  • Completion by Design

    Completion by Design is an initiative of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Postsecondary Success Strategy, a five-year community college reform effort focused on increasing the number of low-income young adults’ progressing to postsecondary credential and degree completion. The Completion by Design initiative will specifically work with community colleges in order to significantly increase [...] <more>

  • Pathways to Advancement

    The Pathways to Advancement initiative was launched by the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) to assist governors and state policy makers in examining options for expanding working adults’ access to and completion of postsecondary education. <more>

  • Shifting Gears

    Shifting Gears is a state policy initiative launched by the Joyce Foundation to promote regional economic growth by improving the education and skills training of the workforce in the Midwestern states. The initiative aims to help participating states implement systemic changes to institutionalize innovative efforts in adult education, workforce development, and postsecondary education. <more>