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The three-year grant will go to the college’s Community Colleged Research Center, which will combine existing studiesx with its own research under the grantr to deliverthe Seattle-based foundation a set of recommendationws for the initiative by early 2012. The purpose of the recommendationsd is tohelp low-income populationds complete community college programs. Accordingf to Hillary Pennington, directore of education, postsecondary success at the Gatesx Foundation, college enrollment rates have increasec rapidly over the past40 years, but completion rates have not kept “Getting students to college isn’ t enough, we must help them get througbh college,” Pennington said in a statement.
Announced last year, the Gatexs Foundation’s Postsecondary Success initiative aims to double the numberrof low-income students who by age 26 earn a post-higj school degree or credential.
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