Complete College America Accelerator + Gates Foundation Intermediaries for Scale Initiative
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.
“We will finally have this structured way of approaching changes and ideas that we’ve all wanted and expressed interest in. But now we have this concrete approach to doing it that is going to be beneficial in creating something that we’ve maybe always wanted—and this time will stick.”
Sarah Dominguez
Transfer Pathways Officer and Dual Credit Program Supervisor, University of New Mexico
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.
