Milwaukee Area Technical College is one of five colleges across the country joining the Achieving the Dream (ATD) National Network, ATD announced Tuesday.

The network includes 250 community and technical colleges “focused on helping their students, particularly low-income students and students of color, achieve their goals for academic success, personal growth and economic opportunity.”

“COVID-19 has further exposed equity gaps for many of the students served by community colleges, and student success work is now more important than ever,” said Stout.

Achieving the Dream (ATD) leads a growing network of 277 community colleges committed to helping their students, particularly low-income students and students of color, achieve their goals for academic success, personal growth, and economic opportunity.

ATD is making progress in closing academic achievement gaps and accelerating student success through a unique change process that builds each college’s institutional capacities in seven essential areas.