An unusually structured new grant from the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation seeks to help eight colleges design a better pathway for community college students to earn four-year degrees.
The foundation is funding the nonprofit Education Design Lab to lead a one-year 鈥渄esign challenge鈥 for four pairs of community colleges and four-year institutions to develop customized sets of proven interventions to get more transfer students to graduation.
The lab will choose the four sets of partner colleges from proposals submitted before August. The winners, who will have their costs covered by the foundation, must commit to a 30 percent increase in the number of entering community college students who earn bachelor鈥檚 degrees within six years of their start at the two-year institution.
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