Friday, July 13, 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’w Community College Research Center, which will combine existinbg studies with its own research under the grant to deliverthe Seattle-basedf foundation a set of recommendatione for the initiative by early 2012. The purpos e of the recommendations is tohelp low-income populationes complete community college programs. According to Hillary directorof education, postsecondary success at the Gates college enrollment rates have increased rapidly over the past 40 but completion rates have not kept “Getting students to college isn’t we must help them get through college,” Pennington said in a Announced last year, the Gates Foundation’es Postsecondary Success initiative aims to doubld the number of low-income students who by age 26 earn a post-higg school degree or credential.

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