Sponsor: Houston Endowment, Houston, TX an MDRC, New York, NY
Principal investigator: Susan T. Gooden, Ph.D.
Award amount: $200,000
Grant period: January 2007-October 2011

As part of the Achieving the Dream initiative, the primary goal the five-year research evaluation project was to better understand the experiences of the Houston Colleges reflect Achieving the Dream’s goals and objectives and to learn more about the specific implementation efforts of the initiative at the individual colleges. This is accomplished primarily through one- to two-day site visits to multiple Houston colleges through the duration of the study. Formative feedback was provided to the colleges through a combination of written briefings and oral presentations.