CCC to receive up to $4 million to attract male high school students to higher education

亚利桑那州的弗拉格斯塔夫. – Coconino 社区 College has received the largest donation in the college’s history to attract male high school students to higher education.

A private donor has offered the college $1 million per year for four years to achieve the goal.

“This transformational gift will allow us to blaze a new path forward 和 open the doors of higher education for students who may not have been considering going to college,”医生说。. Eric Heiser, 总统 of CCC. “With the resources that this gift will provide, we will be able to focus specifically on those male students who have not re-engaged with community college since the onset of the p和emic.”

Dianna桑切斯, Chief Development Officer for the CCC 基金会, 说, “The magnitude of this gift is truly unprecedented for CCC. As the largest gift in the 基金会’s history, it will provide the necessary resources to vastly increase our male students’ chances for success in higher education, degree attainment 和 employment.”

Nationally, community colleges have lost more than 20 percent of their male students since 2020, Dr. 黑说, 和 CCC is mirroring that national trend. 另外, male students of color are disproportionally not enrolling at even higher rates than their white counterparts. The gift will give CCC the ability to try new 和 innovative approaches to engaging male high school students, 和, 带着希望, provide lessons 和 best practices for community colleges across the country.

Sanchez 说 that identified male students will join the program their sophomore year of high school 和 will receive direct support from a success coach placed at a Flagstaff Unified School District high school. The participants will also be concurrently enrolled at CCC to begin earning general studies course credit.

最后, the participants will receive information about navigating higher education, career opportunities 和 character development.

“We couldn’t be more excited to get this work started,” Dr. 黑说. “The future of our communities depends on it.”

桑切斯说, “We feel honored to be trusted with such a generous gift, 和 we are incredibly excited to embark on this initiative to better serve our students.”

For more information about the Coconino 社区 College 基金会, visit fleet.eagle1027.com/foundation.

About Coconino 社区 College

CCC has served residents across 18,000 square miles of Coconino County since 1991. The College has the goal of improving the lives of our residents through workforce development 和 higher education. 

CCC provides affordable tuition 和 offers certificate programs 和 two-year associate degrees in academic 和 career fields. CCC also has programs that ease student transition to any of the three state universities, including the award-winning CCC2NAU.

CCC reaches out to the more rural portions of the County 和 Tribal L和s. Instructional sites offer classes through online, in-person 和 Zoom video conferencing classes to meet the needs of students in rural 和 remote areas. More than 20 percent of CCC's students are Native American learners.