Kellogg Foundation, America Achieves Commit $1.5 Million to Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence
Kellogg Foundation, America Achieves Commit $1.5 Million to Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation and America Achieves have announced commitments totaling $1.5 million in support of the Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence.
Kellogg awarded $1 million over two years to support the initiative, while America Achieves awarded a one-year grant of $500,000. They join the Joyce, Bank of America Charitable, and JP Morgan Chase foundations, the Lumina Foundation for Education, and Bloomberg Philanthropies in supporting the second year of the prize competition.
Launched in 2011, the Aspen Prize recognizes community colleges for their achievements with respect to student learning outcomes, college completion, labor market success leading to jobs, and equitable opportunity.
"The Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence is designed to re-frame America's sense of what community colleges can be — to acknowledge the most outstanding among them and to challenge all community colleges to achieve better levels of student success," said Josh Wyner, executive director of the Aspen College Excellence Program. "With 40 percent of America's college students attending community colleges, tuition rising across the country, and the increasing need for college graduates to have job-ready skills after graduation, excellence in the nation's community colleges is not merely an option. It must happen, because the nation is depending on community colleges to provide a quality education that is within reach of millions of American families."
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