Achieving the Dream

Announcements and Updates

What Is Achieving the Dream?

This initiative uses data to measure students’ progress toward their educational goals in order to help more students earn a degree or certificate, especially low-income students and students of color. While many colleges look at data at single entry points in time, Achieving the Dream colleges track cohorts of students over a period of time. This approach makes it possible to accurately assess students' progress and outcomes and to identify gaps in achievement.

The initiative also collects this data from the colleges, without any information that identifies individuals, and assembles it in the Achieving the Dream database—the only known database that allows researchers to assess the progress of a group of community college students.

Announcements - The national Achieving the Dream news release; Community College of Philadelphia's Achieving the Dream press release.

Updates - Read about the latest data and information from Achieving the Dream initiatives around the country in the Data Notes Newsletter.

For more information email achievingthedream@ccp.edu.