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Eastern's Project Compass: Strategic Support for Student Success Eastern Connecticut State University seeks Project Compass support to implement its Strategic Support for Student Success initiative. Planning funds will help Eastern develop a multivariate statistical model to refine information about its identified cohort of “under-served” students (low-income, minority, and first generation, full-time undergraduates). With guidance from NERCHE and external consultants, Eastern’s Community of Practice will analyze new data about the needs of the most at-risk students in the cohort, will investigate student success models in the region, and then will develop a comprehensive service delivery strategy to support the cohort’s at-risk students at each stage of their Eastern experience. Who funds Project Compass? In 1990, the Nellie Mae Corporation, a nonprofit education-financing company, created the Fund for Education, pioneering philanthropy in the student-loan industry. Over the next eight years, the Fund for Education would provide $5 million in grants to support and advance more than 300 education programs throughout New England. In 1998, the Nellie Mae Foundation was formed; the 1999 purchase of Nellie Mae Corporation by SLM Holding Corporation (Sallie Mae) created the endowment for what is now the Nellie Mae Education Foundation. | ||||
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