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College Excellence Program
The College Excellence Program aims to identify and replicate campus-wide practices that significantly improve college student outcomes. Through the Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence, the New College Leadership Project and other initiatives, the College Excellence Program works to improve colleges’ understanding and capacity to teach and graduate students, especially the growing population of low-income and minority students on American campuses.
Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence
The purpose of the Aspen Prize is to recognize community colleges with outstanding academic and workforce outcomes in both absolute performance and improvements over time. By focusing on student success and lifting up models that work, the Aspen Prize will honor excellence, stimulate innovation, and create benchmarks for measuring progress.
College Excellence Program Updates
Valencia College Winner of the 2011 Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence
Valencia College President Dr. Sanford Shugart accepts the first annual Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence.
Publication: 2011 Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence
Read more about how the Winner and the Finalists with Distinction of the Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence strive for and achieve exceptional levels of success for all students, while they are in college and after they graduate. Download Publication »
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Florida's Valencia College Named the Winner
Valencia and four “Finalists with Distinction” show strongest results in student learning, completion, equity and employment/earnings after college.