Achieving the Dream
TCC participates in the national Achieving the Dream initiative coordinated by the Lumina Foundation—a national non-profit organization that helps community college students succeed. It is a multi-year national initiative to help more community college students succeed. It is particularly focused on students who have been traditionally underrepresented in higher education: low-income students and minority populations.
The Achieving the Dream process includes:
- Examining quantitative data provided by TCC Institutional Research
- Determining educational barriers by conducting focus groups
- Designing interventions to address barriers
- Assessing the impact of interventions
- Revising interventions based on assessments to continue the cycle
Since 2006, TCC teams have conducted a series of focus groups involving TCC students, faculty and staff. This information has been used to design interventions that the TCC teams are using to increase student graduation rates across the College.
Priorities that have been established at TCC are:
- Persistence (being addressed with an Academic Advising intervention, Orientation intervention and Academic Strategies intervention, and African American Male Success intervention)
- Developmental Reading (being currently researched)
- Developmental Math (being addressed with MathPath intervetion)
To find out more about these interventions and goals, click on the titles at the left.
