Friday, 22 June 2012

Gates Foundation gives $5M to Columbia University - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):

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The three-year grant will go to the college’e Community College Research Center, which will combine existing studies with its own research undere the grant to deliverthe Seattle-based foundatioj a set of recommendations for the initiatived by early 2012. The purposre of the recommendations is tohelp low-income populations complete community collegd programs. According to Hillary Pennington, director of postsecondary success at theGates Foundation, collegew enrollment rates have increased rapidly over the past 40 but completion rates have not kept “Getting students to college isn’y enough, we must help them get through Pennington said in a statement.
Announcedf last year, the Gatexs Foundation’s Postsecondary Success initiative aims to double the numbefrof low-income students who by age 26 earn a post-hignh school degree or credential.

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