Commitments to Action on College Opportunity
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COMMITMENTS TO ACTION ON COLLEGE OPPORTUNITY The Executive Office of the President December 2014 1 LIST OF COMMITMENTS Building on the Administration’s efforts to increase college opportunity, the President and First Lady hosted a second College Opportunity Day of Action, asking colleges and universities and other higher education leaders to make new commitments to increase college opportunity. In response, institutions and organizations made the following commitments, as reported and described by respondents. The list includes both participants in the December 4th event as well as institutions and organizations who were unable to attend. Completion Commitments .................................................................................................................................... 10 American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) ......................................................................................................10 American Association of States Colleges and Universities (AASCU) ..................................................................................10 Association of Public Land-Grant Universities (APLU) ......................................................................................................10 Asian American & Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institution Consortium ...................................................10 Aspen Prize 2020 Completion Collective ...............................................................................................................................11 Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence ...................................................................................................................12 The Associated Colleges of the South .....................................................................................................................................13 Association of Franciscan Colleges and Universities (AFCU) .............................................................................................14 Bay Path University (Longmeadow, MA) ..............................................................................................................................15 California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) (Long Beach, CA) ...............................................................................16 California State University System ........................................................................................................................................17 Center for Companies That Care ...........................................................................................................................................18 City University of New York (CUNY) (New York, NY) .......................................................................................................18 Colorado Community College System (CCCS) .....................................................................................................................19 Community College of Allegheny County (Pittsburg, PA) ...................................................................................................20 Community College of Baltimore County..............................................................................................................................20 Cornell University (Ithaca, NY) ..............................................................................................................................................21 Davidson County Community College ...................................................................................................................................21 Eastern Gateway Community College (Steubenville, OH) ...................................................................................................22 The Florida Consortium of Metropolitan Research Universities ........................................................................................22 Governors State University (University Park, IL) ................................................................................................................23 Harper College (Palatine, IL) .................................................................................................................................................24 Hispanic Serving Institutes Collaborative ............................................................................................................................25 Historically Black Colleges and Universities .........................................................................................................................26 ideas42 .......................................................................................................................................................................................27 Illinois Community College Board .........................................................................................................................................27 Indiana State University (Terre Haute, IN) ...........................................................................................................................28 Iowa State University (Ames, IA) ...........................................................................................................................................29 Jobs for the Future (JFF) ........................................................................................................................................................30 Kresge Foundation ...................................................................................................................................................................30 2 LaGuardia Community College (CUNY), Maricopa Community College, and Valencia College ...................................31 Louisiana’s Community and Technical Colleges ..................................................................................................................32 Loyola University Chicago and Arrupe College ...................................................................................................................32 Lumina Foundation .................................................................................................................................................................33 The Michael and Susan Dell Foundation ...............................................................................................................................34 Minnesota Tribal College Consortium ...................................................................................................................................35 Minority Serving Institution Community College Completion Collaborative (MSI C4) ..................................................35 National Association of System Heads (NASH) .....................................................................................................................36 Newark City of Learning Collaborative ................................................................................................................................37 North Carolina Community College System .........................................................................................................................38 OneGoal ....................................................................................................................................................................................38 Palo Alto University (PAU) Collaboration (Palo Alto, CA) .................................................................................................39 Pasadena City College (Pasadena, CA) ..................................................................................................................................40 Patrick Henry Community College (Martinsville, VA) ........................................................................................................41 Philadelphia Higher Education Collaborative (Philadelphia, PA) ......................................................................................41 The Posse Foundation ..............................................................................................................................................................42 St. Francis College (New York, NY) .......................................................................................................................................43 Scholarship America ................................................................................................................................................................43 Single Stop ................................................................................................................................................................................44 Starfish Retention Solutions ....................................................................................................................................................45 Texas Association of Community Colleges ............................................................................................................................46 UNCF (United Negro College Fund) ......................................................................................................................................47 University of Hawai‘i System ..................................................................................................................................................47