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Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count

    NEW -  Strategy Institute 2006 Registration

• For Achieving the Dream Colleges      
• For Partners, State Policy Meeting Participants, Funders, Coaches, Data Facilitators, and Invited Guests

      More on Achieving the Dream

• Strategy Institute 2005                                     
• News Release - Multiyear Grants Awarded, June 16, 2005                                     
• Policy Listening Tours                                   
• Presentation - Equity and Community Colleges - David Dodson (Adobe PDF)                                                  
• Achieving the Dream Overview (Adobe PDF)                                                     
• Engagement Guide From Public Agenda (Adobe PDF)            
• Report- Institutional Change in Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count (Adobe PDF).           
• Presentation- Opening Doors and Closing Gaps in the Learning College- Irving Pressley McPhail  (Adobe PDF)

      Summer Institute 2005 Handouts

• Investment Grant Guidelines (Word doc)                   
• Investment Grant Cover Sheet (Word doc)                   
• Investment Budget Form (Excel sheet)                    
• Template for First Year Work Plan (Word doc)        

      Fact Sheets                

• Benefits of Community Colleges Fact Sheet (Adobe PDF)                        
• Characteristics and Challenges of Community Colleges Fact Sheet (Adobe PDF).                    
• Core Commitments of Participating Colleges Fact Sheet (Adobe PDF).                          
• Success Is What Count two-pager (Adobe PDF)        

      Data Submissions Tools                     

• Instructions for Data Submission. Dreamkeeper version 2.1: July 2005 (Adobe PDF). Dreamkeeper colleges (View list).                              
• Instructions for Data Submission. AtD version 2.1: July 2005 (Adobe PDF). All Other Colleges (View list).                              
• Data Submission FAQs (Adobe PDF)                              
• AtD SSN Encrypton Program from JBL & Associates              

      Photo Gallery

• Round One Colleges           
• Round Two Colleges          
• Summer Institute 2005          
• Partners       

         Achieving the Dream is funded by Lumina Foundation for Education and managed by MDC, Inc.  Other national partners and funders include the following:

      Partners

• American Association of Community Colleges (AACC)                                                                                         
• Community College Leadership Program, the University of Texas-Austin                                                                                         
• Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University                                                                                                                                                                     
• Jobs for the Future                                                                                         
• MDRC                                                                                         
• Public Agenda                                                            
• Achieving the Dream Colleges (View list)

       Funders

• Lumina Foundation for Education          
• KnowledgeWorks Foundation          
• Nellie Mae Education Foundation, Inc.

         Other prominent national and regional organizations, as well as other funders, will join the effort in the months and years ahead.

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