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November 22, 2009
2007-06-06 - BHCC Joins National Initiative to Help Students Succeed
Boston, June 6, 2007 – Bunker Hill Community College is one of four Massachusetts community colleges to be awarded a $50,000 grant as part of Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count. This national initiative promotes student success at community colleges across the nation. Currently, 82 colleges in 15 states participate in this initiative. The funding for the Massachusetts component is provided by the Lumina Foundation for Education, with local support from the Lloyd G. Balfour Foundation, the Boston Foundation, the Educational Resources Institute (TERI) and the Irene E. and George A. Davis Foundation. Each participating college in Massachusetts is eligible for implementation grants worth up to $400,000 over four years.
Achieving the Dream provides participating colleges with support to implement strategies designed to help more students—particularly students of color and low-income students—earn degrees, complete certificates or transfer to other institutions to continue their studies. The goal of the program is to emphasize building a culture of evidence, in which colleges use data to identify effective practices, improve student success rates and close achievement gaps. This most recent funding award comes on the heels of a 1.9 million dollar federal grant awarded to the College last year by the U.S. Department of Education, aimed at increasing the success and graduation rate of first-time, full-time students.
“This added recognition and financial support couldn’t come at a better time,” stated BHCC President Mary L. Fifield. “Joining the Achieving the Dream network will enable us to benefit from, as well as contribute to, student success strategies nationwide.”
Bunker Hill Community College is the largest community college in Massachusetts. The College enrolls more than 8,500 students on two campuses and at five satellite locations each semester. Some 1,700 students take classes online. BHCC is one of the most diverse institutions of higher education in the Commonwealth. Six in ten students are people of color and more than half of BHCC’s students are women. The College also enrolls more than 600 international students who come from more than 95 countries and speak more than 75 different languages.
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