Project Renaissance

About Title III

The College will use Title III funds to implement strategies designed to accomplish objectives for Goals 1, 2, and 3 of the Comprehensive Development Plan (CDP). In a presentation to the League for Innovation in Community Colleges, Robert McCabe (2002) emphasized the link between college preparatory education and the well-being of the nation. He stressed the need for America to develop a broad-based highly-skilled workforce, and affirmed that effective college preparatory education programs are imperative to achieve that goal. Florida Community College will address the Department of Education Invitational Priority to be responsive to the needs of local residents and employers and offer programs designed to improve and enhance opportunities for low-income students in the workforce and meet local community workforce needs by strengthening learning support systems for college preparatory students.

The overall goal of the activity is to improve the success for college preparatory students from the time they begin assessment through completion of the required college preparatory classes. The goal will be achieved by successfully completing the measurable objectives that have guided the development of the implementation plan for the activity. The strategies will strengthen three closely related systems critical to retention of college preparatory students: academic systems, student support systems, and information systems related to student academic risk factors.

When the activity is completed, the College will have strengthened assessment, referral and tracking processes, college preparatory curriculum, and learning support systems. The project will impact the success of college preparatory students: 95 percent of college preparatory students with high risk factors will be identified and referred to counseling or other services; success rates in college preparatory reading, writing, and mathematics courses will increase, fall-to fall retention of college preparatory students will increase by 10 percent; student satisfaction with support services will increase by 10 percent; and the number of college preparatory students completing all required college preparatory courses within two years will increase by 15 percent. In addition to the impact of student success, successful implementation of the activity will substantially increase the College's capacity to fulfill its mission.