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Prioritizing Adult Community College Enrollment (PACCE) Initiative

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Overview

Prioritizing Adult Community College Enrollment (PACCE) Initiative

Funder: Achieving the Dream in partnership with Lumina Foundation

Status: Program ended May 31, 2023 (historical grant - no longer accepting applications)

Overview:
A competitive grant program that supported 20 community colleges committed to increasing enrollments of adult learners aged 25 and older. The initiative focused on scaling promising efforts that intentionally address improving enrollments of adult students, particularly Black, Latinx, and Native American students.

Geographic Scope:
Public two-year institutions located in the following states only:

  • Alabama

  • California

  • Colorado

  • Florida

  • Michigan

  • New York

  • North Carolina

  • Texas

  • Virginia
  • Focus Areas:

  • Increasing enrollment and re-enrollment of adult learners (25+)

  • Serving students balancing employment, parenting, and other commitments

  • Centering racial equity as an explicit goal

  • Scaling evidence-based strategies
  • Support Provided:

  • Monthly curriculum

  • Personalized feedback

  • Open office hours

  • Individualized coaching supports

  • Technical assistance providers: Achieving the Dream, Ideas42, and rpkGroup
  • Eligibility:

  • Public two-year institutions in specified states

  • Institutions with demonstrated understanding of adult student needs

  • Institutions with racial equity as explicit institutional goal

  • Colleges with promising existing efforts to scale
  • Program Timeline:

  • October 2021 - May 31, 2023

  • All enrollment strategies were to be fully scaled by end date
  • Contact: For more information, colleges were directed to "Learn more about the initiative here" (link provided in original announcement)

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