“HCM’s work with SCHEV improved our ability to address the needs of first-generation and first-year students. Virginia is better because of your commitment and passion. Thank you!”
- Peter Blake, Director of State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (retired), about HCM’s evaluation and institutional analysis to the Commonwealth initiative “Improving Efforts to Recruit and Retain Pell-eligible Students in Virginia.” “Virginia State University was pleased to receive almost $2 million in the Commonwealth’s competitive awarding of grants to improve success rates among low-income Pell-eligible students. Education is the greatest equalizer for low-income populations and the additional assistance we can put into place for our Pell-eligible students through the implementation of ‘Trojan Connect’ which is funded, in part, through this award, will result in demonstrable results.” Virginia State University President, Makola Abdullah, went on to say “A unique aspect of this award is the requirement that institutions receiving funding provide data on the outcomes of their programs, with an assumption that future funding will be contingent on success. I am confident our program will be very successful.”
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