Grant Description
This grant will provide $150,000 over two years to five Michigan community colleges to implement and institutionalize new strategies to increase the credential persistence and completion rates for Futures for Frontliners and Reconnect students above each college’s current persistence and completion rates for all adult students. The grants, awarded on a competitive basis, will provide $90,000 in year one and $60,000 in year two. All funded initiatives must be new to the college, promise impact at scale, be potentially transferable to other colleges, and be subject to evaluation. The deadline for applying is March 31, 2021.
Purpose
The state of Michigan’s future prosperity and the longer-term success and financial viability of the state’s community colleges share a common challenge: Substantially increasing the credentials earned at the state’s community colleges. Michigan cannot achieve its education attainment goal of sixty percent of its adults possessing post-secondary credentials by 2030 without a significant increase in the percentage of enrolled community college students completing associate degrees and occupational certificates. Likewise, with the annual number of high school graduates declining steadily due to the state’s demographics, community colleges cannot sustain their revenues without increases in the number of credit hours earned per enrollee during their college stay—an outcome that requires higher rates of student persistence and completion.
As a result of this congruence of interests and the state’s recent decision to invest significant new public resources in making community college tuition-free for adults without college degrees through the Futures for Frontliners and Reconnect programs, the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity (LEO) is interested in investing in community colleges committed to pursuing innovative ways to increase adult persistence and completion.
Important Dates
Application Release: Funding opportunity made available on March 8, 2021.
Deadline: Applications are due March 31, 2021 at 5:00 p.m. at mcan.smapply.org
Application Notification: Successful applicants will be notified by May 15, 2021.
Eligibility
Michigan Community Colleges and Tribal Colleges are eligible to apply. Eligibility questions should be directed to: Brandy Johnson, 517-899-4131, JohnsonB54@michigan.gov.
Sixty by 30 Student Success Grant
Grant Description
This grant will provide $150,000 over two years to five Michigan community colleges to implement and institutionalize new strategies to increase the credential persistence and completion rates for Futures for Frontliners and Reconnect students above each college’s current persistence and completion rates for all adult students. The grants, awarded on a competitive basis, will provide $90,000 in year one and $60,000 in year two. All funded initiatives must be new to the college, promise impact at scale, be potentially transferable to other colleges, and be subject to evaluation. The deadline for applying is March 31, 2021.
Purpose
The state of Michigan’s future prosperity and the longer-term success and financial viability of the state’s community colleges share a common challenge: Substantially increasing the credentials earned at the state’s community colleges. Michigan cannot achieve its education attainment goal of sixty percent of its adults possessing post-secondary credentials by 2030 without a significant increase in the percentage of enrolled community college students completing associate degrees and occupational certificates. Likewise, with the annual number of high school graduates declining steadily due to the state’s demographics, community colleges cannot sustain their revenues without increases in the number of credit hours earned per enrollee during their college stay—an outcome that requires higher rates of student persistence and completion.
As a result of this congruence of interests and the state’s recent decision to invest significant new public resources in making community college tuition-free for adults without college degrees through the Futures for Frontliners and Reconnect programs, the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity (LEO) is interested in investing in community colleges committed to pursuing innovative ways to increase adult persistence and completion.
Important Dates
Application Release: Funding opportunity made available on March 8, 2021.
Deadline: Applications are due March 31, 2021 at 5:00 p.m. at mcan.smapply.org
Application Notification: Successful applicants will be notified by May 15, 2021.
Eligibility
Michigan Community Colleges and Tribal Colleges are eligible to apply. Eligibility questions should be directed to: Brandy Johnson, 517-899-4131, JohnsonB54@michigan.gov.