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About
Achieving the Dream
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.
What does it mean to be an Achieving the Dream college?
To attain high rates of success among all students, especially historically
underserved students, Achieving the Dream asserts that colleges must have a
student-centered vision, a culture of evidence and accountability, and a
commitment to excellence and equity. Specifically, participating
colleges have pledged to maintain students; access while working to increase
the percentage of them who accomplish the following:
- Complete remedial courses and move
on to credit-bearing courses.
- Enroll in and complete “gatekeeper”
courses such as introductory math and English.
- Complete the courses they take,
earning a grade of C or higher.
- Re-enroll from one semester to the
next.
- Earn certificates and/or degrees.
There are four community colleges in
North Carolina participating in the Achieving the Dream initiative:
Martin Community College, Durham Technical Community College, Guilford
Community College, and Wayne Community College
For additional information, please
contact Dr. Mary Cauley at 252-792-1521 ext. 261,
mcauley@martincc.edu . Please visit
www.achievingthedream.org
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Emergency Fund |
MCC is able to intervene on behalf of some
low-income students who may need emergency funds to stay in school.
Students have to fill out an application and submit it along with
appropriate documentation to the college counselor or Dr. Cauley. The
financial assistance is made available through a grant obtained from
Scholarship America (Dreamkeepers Student Emergency Financial Aid program).
For additional information, please
contact Dr. Mary Cauley at 252-792-1521 ext. 261,
mcauley@martincc.edu
or visit her personally in Building 2, Room 31.
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Spotlight on Students |
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Alice Clark
had built much of her life around the Windsor,
NC, textile plant where she worked. So when the plant
closed, her life was completely upended. As Clark and her
coworkers found themselves without jobs, an associate degree
program at Martin Community College (Williamston,
NC) offered hope — and the friends’ mutual support as
well as support from the college helped carry them through.
Clark decided to pursue a degree in medical
office assisting, but she knew that earning her degree would
be a challenge. She is a middle-aged wife and mother of a
young daughter. Her husband was on disability with no
hospitalization insurance, and she had not set foot in a
classroom in years.
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