ATD Publications
2010 ATD Fact Sheet Print E-mail
Read the latest updates and highlights from Pennsylvania's seven ATD colleges...
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ATD Success Policy Brief 2009 Print E-mail
Earning a postsecondary credential has never been more critical to getting a job that pays family-supporting wages. Today’s students, who understand the importance of education beyond high school, are enrolling in higher education—community colleges, in particular—at record rates. But too many of the students who enroll in community college are not on track for success. Six out of ten must take at least one developmental education course before they can enroll in college-level courses. This decreases their individual chances of ultimately earning a credential. Moreover, it compromises our global economic competitiveness when the nation’s education attainment rate goes down.

Achieving the Dream, a national initiative to improve student success in community colleges, has taken a multipronged approach to improving outcomes in developmental education. This issue brief describes how the fifteen participating states have concentrated their policy efforts on four key areas: Preventative Strategies, Assessment and Placement, Implementation and Evaluation of Program Innovation, and Performance Measurement and Incentives.

Click here to read the entire brief.
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Promoting Student Success Through ATD Print E-mail

As the Pennsylvania Achieving the Dream community colleges enter the third year of the initiative, they consistently utilize data to drive a culture of evidence, develop innovations, and implement strategies. During the 2nd Annual 2008 Achieving the Dream Student Success Forum, participants engaged in roundtable discussions focused on priority areas to enhance student success. Small groups of community college educators, administrators, and stakeholders shared strategies and promising practices that can infl uence education policy. Through the exploration of college and workforce readiness, student success strategies, and data collection issues, it became evident that a commitment to investing in student success is essential!

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Featured Member College

luzerne.jpgLuzerne County Community College (LCCC) provides quality learning opportunities throughout northeastern Pennsylvania. Through its 167-acre main campus located in Nanticoke, four off-campus centers and eight off-campus locations, LCCC offers students more than 100 academic and technical credit programs and noncredit career training programs in traditional classrooms and distance learning environments. LCCC has the largest credit enrollment and is the largest provider of workforce development programming in the county.

1333 S. Prospect St.
Nanticoke, PA 18634-3899
570-740-0300
http://www.luzerne.edu

 
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Click HERE to download the most recent issue of FOCUS! This issue focuses on the value of community colleges to the student, community, and economic well-being of the state.
 
Enrollment as measured by Full-Time Equivalent students (FTEs) has set a record high for the third consecutive academic year.  The 132,440 total FTEs in 2009-10 represents an 8.4% increase from last year.  All of the 2009-10 increase is in credit programs.  Credit FTEs increased 11.5% from 2008-09 to nearly 119,000 – a 63.2% increase during this decade.