Tag: Dr. Karen Stout

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Achieving the Dream Adds Five Colleges to its 2021 Cohort Promoting Student Success and Equity

Achieving the Dream (ATD) has added five community colleges to its 2021 cohort. ATD president and CEO Dr. Karen A. Stout said that the colleges selected are willing to examine how they engage with students and “take a hard look at where [they] are falling short.” The five institutions will join with ATD for the […]

August 4, 2021

Community Colleges

Community College Student Housing Needs Heightened Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

Student housing at community colleges is somewhat rare — only 28% of community colleges in America have on-campus dormitory options for their students. But the last twenty years have seen a growing number of community colleges try to find creative ways to help their students who are housing or food insecure.

July 8, 2021

Community Colleges

Community College Leaders Share Questions and Concerns on Coronavirus at Virtual Town Hall

A virtual town hall hosted by Achieving the Dream offered a glimpse into the questions community college leaders are asking themselves as they respond to the coronavirus.

April 20, 2020

Home

Report: Open Educational Resources Save Students Money at a Manageable Cost to Colleges

Free digital learning materials, or Open Educational Resources (OER), have been celebrated as a way to reduce student costs and even encourage them to take more credits. But how well do they work? According to a new study, these online resources do save students money and at a manageable cost to colleges.

February 25, 2020

Community Colleges

New Effort Focuses on Increasing Community College Success for Women Students

Achieving the Dream is teaming up with the Biden Foundation to spearhead a bold, new initiative called “Community College Women Succeed,” aimed at helping adult women learners — including single parents — succeed and complete community college.

February 20, 2019

Students

ATD Summit Helps Colleges Use Data for Student Success

COLLEGE PARK, MD — Leaders and representatives from 81 colleges and university systems gathered for Achieving the Dream’s (ATD) fourth annual Data and Analytics Summit to learn best practices for analyzing and utilizing student data to better inform institutional practices and policies.

September 6, 2018