Data and Accountability

Turning the Tide: Five Years of Achieving the Dream in Community Colleges

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The Achieving the Dream initiative, launched in 2004, aims to improve success among community college students through building a “culture of evidence” — a culture in which colleges routinely use student data to examine students’ performance and identify barriers to academic progress. As a participating community college in the initiative, it is expected that this evidence would be utilized to develop intervention strategies to improve student outcomes, inform further research on student progress, and bring effective programs to scale. <more>