The Achieving the Dream eNewsletter
Pathways to Student Success
Pathways to Student Success is the monthly Achieving the Dream eNewsletter. This newsletter features articles on the details, updates, and success stories of the AtD program at Lone Star College-Montgomery.
About AtD
Achieving the Dream (AtD): Community Colleges Count
is a multiyear national initiative to help more community
college students succeed. The initiative is built on the belief
that broad institutional change - informed by student
achievement data - is crucial to achieve this result. In fall
2007, Lone Star College System began launching a series of
Initiatives focusing on five primary strategies to bring about
an increase in student success:
- Creating a campus climate where early and continuous
intervention is part of the college culture, thus providing
additional support to the most at-risk students;
- Developing and implementing a student success course;
- Focusing a program of professional development for
faculty and student services staff to promote a culture
of evidence and to improve student engagement in the
learning and advising processes;
- Reviewing policies, practices and procedures related
to advising, assessment, placement, prerequisites, and
payment practices; and
- Engaging the community in an advisory capacity.