http://www.nccu.edu/news/index.cfm?ID=DA8ECECB-F0BB-DB10-6DD028D5F583C3E3
February 29, 2012
The
initiative is a two-year project, financed by a $3 million grant from the
Walmart Foundation, involving three organizations that focus on education of
minority students: The National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher
Education (NAFEO), representing historically black colleges and universities
and other institutions with substantial black student enrollment; the Hispanic
Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU); and the American Indian Higher
Education Consortium (AIHEC).
Combined,
the institutions represented by these three groups educate more than one-third
of the nation’s minority students, many of whom are from low-income backgrounds
and are the first in their families to attend college. The three organizations
share the goal of increasing retention and graduation rates of students
enrolled in the colleges and universities they represent.
The
aim of the Walmart Foundation Student Success Collaborative is to identify
institutions with high rates of student persistence and graduation and to
determine the practices and strategies that contribute to this success — and
then to find ways to encourage other institutions to adopt those practices. The
ultimate goal is to significantly increase graduation rates at all
minority-serving institutions.
About
50 educators are expected at the meeting, which will include panel discussions,
workshops and a variety of presentations and case studies. The Thursday
meetings will be in NCCU’s new Nursing Building, and Friday’s will be in the
W.G. Pearson Cafeteria Chancellor’s Dining Room.
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