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March 1, 2007
Lumina Foundation Increases Its Support for Community-College Project
The Lumina Foundation for Education will give up to $18-million over the next five years to a national project working to improve the academic outcomes of students who attend two-year colleges, the organization announced.
The project, called Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count, focuses on using research to design ways to help more community-college students — particularly minority students and those from low-income families — earn degrees or certificates, or transfer to four-year institutions. Lumina had previously committed about $56-million to the project. The additional money will help extend the project by three years, to 2012.
Achieving the Dream is one of several national institutional-research projects started in recent years to help community colleges.
Posted on Thursday March 1, 2007 | Permalink |
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