LaGuardia Community College/City University of New York – Long Island City, NY
First-Year Academies: Facilitating Engagement and Success in the First Year of College

The First Year Academy provides a comprehensive first-year experience for students focused around their chosen discipline areas. Placing all freshmen into one of three Academies based on choice of major, the Program contextualizes basic skills instruction through discipline-based learning communities. Other key aspects include ePortfolio development and discipline-focused, co-curricular activities.
 
 

Austin Community College – Austin, TX
College Connection: Connecting Possibility to Expectation One Student at a Time

College Connection’s innovative approach, taking admission and enrollment services onto high school campuses, is increasing postsecondary enrollment rates, especially for minority and low-income students.  All participating seniors receive an ACC District acceptance letter with their diplomas, resulting in increased college-going rates: 38% at ACC District and 9.8% during the first two years in overall Texas higher education enrollment.
 
 

Temple College – Temple, TX
The Central Texas Biotechnology Education-to-Employment Model: The Texas Bioscience Institute

Learn how a community college partnered with a state-supported medical school, a major private teaching hospital, and public and private independent school districts to turn a declining degree into a program of study that enhances medical research and economic development through the development of a state-of-the-art bioscience institute.