LYNCHBURG – Motlow State Community College
has strengthened its commitment to improving student success by becoming part
of the Achieving the Dream National Reform Network.
ATD, the nonprofit
leading a movement to ensure student success for colleges that champion
educational equity, continued to expand its Network with the addition of 20 colleges
in 2018.
“Achieving the Dream is an organization nationally known for
serving as a catalyst in efforts supporting community colleges in their mission
to increase student success,” said Dr. Michael Torrence, Motlow president. “More
specifically, ATD strives for equity in student success and assists colleges as
they drill down into their data to review exactly where they are strong and
where they have opportunities.”
Chosen by the Tennessee Board of Regents (TBR), Motlow
represents one of the eight Tennessee community colleges that joined ATD in the
2018 cohort, which is among the largest in the organization’s 14-year history. The joining colleges increased the ATD Network to more than 200 institutions
from 41 states, including the District of Columbia.
Teams from each of the 20 colleges met last year in
Cleveland, Ohio, to set the stage for their work as ATD Network institutions.
Their three-day experience at the Kickoff Institute included an introduction to
ATD’s approach, along with a capacity-building framework and companion
self-assessment tool that enables colleges to pinpoint their strengths and
areas for improvement across seven institutional capacities that are needed to
facilitate change.
This framework integrates and aligns efforts that the
colleges may have already begun to implement, such as guided pathways,
integrated planning and advising, development education redesign, and assesses
readiness for other large-scale change work.
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