Mercomes adds that the college is proud of its relationship with Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count, a national program designed to help improve colleges’ academic performances. The initiative’s grant funding has allowed RCC to develop learning communities: programs that allow for a small cohort of students to take classes together in which participating faculty plan courses collaboratively.
Sterling Giles, a school coordinator with Achieving the Dream and co-president of RCC’s faculty assembly, adds that the initiative has been beneficial to the college and says he is impressed by how far the college has come.
“The strategic plan is not just an empty document. It actually guides things, and people’s energies are used more wisely,” says Giles, who has taught at RCC for the last 15 years. “Just having basic solid management practices has been great. There is an environment to work in or rather a foundation for our being able to work productively every day.”
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