What is Achieving the Dream (AtD)?

Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count is a multiyear national initiative to help more community college students succeed. The initiative is particularly concerned about student groups that traditionally have faced significant barriers to success, including students of color and low-income students. Achieving the Dream works on multiple fronts, including efforts at community colleges and in research, public engagement and public policy. It emphasizes the use of data to drive change.

Community colleges enroll almost half of all U.S. undergraduate students, and the American public appreciates their commitment to providing broad access.  But access alone isn't enough. Currently fewer than half of community college students meet their educational goals. Achieving the Dream is working to help more students earn certificates or degrees that open the door to better jobs, further education, and greater opportunity.

Reports

• Valencia AtD Proposal
• Fall 2005 Update
• Spring 2006 Update
• Spring 2007 Update
• Supplemental Learning Spring 2006 Data Report
• AtD Strategies Report
• AtD Executive Summary

Presentations

• GAPS and Strategies
• Spring 2005 Background Data
• Spring 2005 Data Presentation to College
• Welcome Back
• Data Presentation of SL vs. non SL courses
• Data Presentation of SL attendees vs. non SL attendees
• Spring 2006 SL Data Presentation
• Fall 2006 AtD Data Strategy Presentation

Timelines

• AtD Timeline Priority I: Improving Student Outcomes Through a First-Year Experience:

Year One (05-06)

Year Two (06-07)

• AtD Timeline Priority II: Improving Student Outcomes Through Data Analysis and Stakeholder Engagement

Year One (05-06)

Year Two (06-07)

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National Initiative Data Notes

• February 2006
• March 2006
• April 2006
• May 2006
• June 2006
• July/August 2006
• September/October 2006
• November/December 2006
• January/February 2007
• May/June 2007
• November/December 2007

Organization Chart

AtD Coordinating Team

• Julie Phelps, Ph.D. – AtD Project Director
• email or call 407 582-2527
• Joyce Romano, Ph.D. – Vice President for Student Affairs

AtD Consultant Team

• Mary Allen – Student Success Director
• Shelby Fiorentino – SL Collegewide Coordinator
• Nick Bekas –Director/Ombudsman of the Educator Preparation Institute (EPI)
• Roberta Brown – Assistant Director of Learning Assessment
• Christy Cheney – LinC Collegewide Coordinator
• Helen Clarke – Teaching / Learning Academy
• Jeff Cornett - Director of Institutional Research
• Kurt Ewen – Director of Institutional Assessment
• Paul Flores – Professor of Mathematics
• Tracy Harrison – Professor of Reading
• David Hosman –West Campus LinC Coordinator
• Sonya Joseph – Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs
• Susan Kelley –Vice President for Institutional Advancement
• Patrick Nellis – Faculty Development
• Barbara Shell – Assistant Director, Community & Alumni Relations
• John Stover – Coordinator of Diverse Students
• Jean Marie Fuhrman – Faculty Council President
• email or call 407 582-2511

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