Committed to meeting North Carolina's workforce development needs, the North Carolina Community College System (NCCCS) announced NC Community Colleges Boost, a new program designed to quickly move students into the high-wage, high-demand careers that will drive the state's future prosperity. Arnold Ventures, a philanthropy that supports research into America's most pressing problems–and evidence-based solutions to address them–is funding this launch with a grant of more than $35.6 million, the largest private grant ever received by NCCCS. The model on which the program is built has a proven track record of doubling graduation rates in multiple other states.
"The City University of New York's Accelerated Study in Associate Programs (CUNY ASAP) model is the gold standard for increasing completion in higher education," said NCCCS president Dr. Jeff Cox. "In the NC Community Colleges Boost implementation, we have taken that model and aligned it with North Carolina's workforce development goals as specified in the PropelNC initiative. This is how we will ensure the maximum benefit for our students and our state. Participants will quickly move through college into the careers that our policymakers have identified as most important to North Carolina's economic success."
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