Community Colleges Enter Study to Increase Graduation rate with Grant Help

Several community colleges across the U.S. are entering a two-year effort to study how they can increase graduation rates at a lower cost per student with a one million dollar grant.

The Lumina Foundation, a private organization dedicated to improving college completion rates, and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are providing the money for this grant reaching out to eight community colleges in the U.S. including Oklahoma City Community College.

President Obama has proposed spending $12 billion over the next ten years in order to increase conditions and programs at community colleges with the goal of graduation five million more people.

With the help of this grant, the goal of the project is to increase voluntary accountability in over a dozen community colleges with in the next two years.