Randolph Community College Named Partner in $9.2 Million Grant to Pilot Student Retention Program

Randolph Community College has been named a partner in a consortium of 10 community colleges in North Carolina to extend a student retention program that focuses on proactive student counseling and coaching. The $9.2 million grant awarded to Central Carolina Community College in Sanford as the lead college will extend a student retention program begun at CCCC. RCC’s portion of the grant over a four-year period is estimated to be over $650,000.

Boosting educational outcomes such as Year One Progress and Curriculum Completion are part of Dr. Robert Shackleford’s Presidential Initiatives at RCC under the College’s Core Value of Student Success. “Our students are why we do what we do at Randolph Community College, and the completion of our students’ educational goals is a major focus for us every single day,” said Shackleford. “We are very encouraged by the improved retention rates experienced by Central Carolina’s students with the success coach model, and we are honored to collaborate with them and the other eight schools involved in this consortium to incorporate those successful practices into our own processes.”

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