CCA Accelerator

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Complete College America Accelerator + Gates Foundation Intermediaries for Scale Initiative

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The Complete College America Accelerator, part of the Gates Foundation’s Intermediaries for Scale (IfS) project, focuses on collaborating with institutional teams to create the necessary conditions for initiating and sustaining transformational work that improves college completion outcomes for low-income students and students of color.

The CCA Accelerator is working with more than 100 institutions across 20 states and territories–creating a network, conducting assessments of institutional performance, uilding data capacity, and developing and implementing strategies to improve student outcomes.


CCA Accelerator Institutions

Through a competitive request for proposals process, CCA has selected more than 100 institutions from 20 states and territories within the CCA Alliance to participate in the Accelerator.

CCA Accelerator Institutions

Alabama

Bishop State Community College

George C Wallace State Community College-Selma

J. F. Drake State Community and Technical College

Lawson State Community College

Shelton State Community College

Stillman College

Talladega College

Trenholm State Community College

California

Coalinga College 

Colorado

Front Range Community College

District of Columbia

University of the District of Columbia

Hawaii

Kapiʻolani Community College

Leeward Community College

University of Hawaii at Manoa

University of Hawaii Maui College

University of Hawaii-West Oahu

Kentucky

Kentucky State University

Lindsey Wilson University

Morehead State University

Southeast Kentucky Community & Technical College

Louisiana

Baton Rouge Community College 

Delgado Community College

Louisiana State University-Alexandria

Louisiana State University-Shreveport

Northwest Louisiana Technical Community College

Southern University and A & M College 

Southern University at New Orleans

Southern University at Shreveport

University of New Orleans

Maine

Central Maine Community College

Eastern Maine Community College 

Kennebec Valley Community College 

Southern Maine Community College

Mississippi

Coahoma Community College

Mississippi Valley State University 

Missouri

Harris-Stowe State University

Metropolitan Community College-Kansas City

Missouri State University-Springfield

University of Central Missouri

Minnesota

Bethel University 

St Catherine University

The College of Saint Scholastica

New Mexico

Central New Mexico Community College

Clovis Community College

New Mexico Highlands University 

New Mexico State University 

New Mexico State University-Grants

Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute (SIPI) 

University of New Mexico-Main Campus

University of New Mexico-Los Alamos 

University of New Mexico-Taos Campus

University of New Mexico-Valencia 

Ohio

Cincinnati State Technical and Community College

Clark State College

Cleveland State University

Kent State University at Kent

Lorain County Community College

Marion Technical College

Owens Community College

Southern State Community College

Terra State Community College

The Ohio State University-Main Campus

University of Akron-Main Campus

University of Cincinnati-Main Campus

University of Toledo

Pennsylvania

Community College of Allegheny County

Harrisburg Area Community College 

Lincoln University 

Northampton Community College

Westmoreland County Community College

Puerto Rico

University of Puerto Rico Cayey 

Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico-Ponce

University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez

South Carolina

Coastal Carolina University 

Denmark Technical College

Florence-Darlington Technical College

Greenville Technical College 

Midlands Technical College

Orangeburg Calhoun Technical College

Piedmont Technical College

Trident Technical College 

Texas

Huston-Tillotson University

South Texas College

Texas Southern University

Wiley University

Vermont

Vermont State Colleges

Washington

Central Washington University 

Eastern Washington University

Heritage University

Walla Walla Community College

Wenatchee Valley College

Yakima Valley College

Wisconsin

University of Wisconsin- Eau Claire

University of Wisconsin-River Falls

University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point


CCA Accelerator Institutional transformation areas and priorities

Working with CCA, institutions prioritize specific transformation areas. Priority areas are informed by a combination of sources, including an examination of the institution’s data, results from the ITA, discussions during the campus sensemaking meeting, and incorporation of the institution’s current student success projects.

PATHWAYS: The institution’s ability to systematically define student pathways, map pathways to student end goals, help students choose a pathway, keep students on a pathway, and ensure that students are learning.

LEADERSHIP AND CULTURE: The institution’s ability to develop and lead the execution of a strategic agenda focused on student success.

INSTITUTIONAL POLICY: The institution’s ability to change institutional policies, processes and procedures to support, sustain and institutionalize efforts to improve student success and close equity gaps.

STRATEGIC FINANCE: The institution’s ability to strategically and effectively allocate and manage resources in support of the institution’s vision, mission, goals, and priority initiatives.

INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH: The institution’s ability to use inquiry, action research, data, and analytics to intentionally inform operational, tactical, and strategic accomplishment of its student success mission. This function—occurring both inside and outside of an institutional research office— provides timely, accurate, and actionable decision support to administrators, faculty, staff, students, and other stakeholders.

INSTITUTIONAL TECHNOLOGY: The institution’s ability to provide institutional leadership, faculty, and advisors with tools and information they need to contribute to student success, support students, faculty and staff with IT solutions, and develop and monitor meaningful student success initiatives.

STATE POLICY: The institution’s ability to leverage existing state policies or develop and/or advocate for new evidence-based state policies (which could include, depending on local context, legislative policies, board policies, rules and/or guidance documents) to support efforts to achieve equitable student success at scale.

DEVELOPMENTAL EDUCATION REFORM: The institution’s progress in reforming their developmental education programs to maximize the likelihood of all students completing their college-level gateway math and English courses in the first year of enrollment.

ADVISING: The institution’s focus on assessing and improving advising and support services by leveraging technology, creating student services that are proactive, structured, personalized, and sustained—and connect advising and planning.

DIGITAL LEARNING: The institution’s progress in developing, implementing, and supporting an institution-wide strategy for delivering high-quality digital teaching and learning in face to-face, hybrid, and online learning modalities to reduce inequitable learning outcomes for Black, Latino/a, Indigenous, poverty affected and other minoritized populations.

EMERGENCY AID: The institution’s ability to build and sustain an emergency aid program that provides timely grants, loans, and/or basic needs support to students facing an unexpected financial crisis.

High school students engaged in college readiness programs, emphasizing the importance of college pathways and credential attainment for academic success.