Excerpted from an email from President Mellow:

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced that LaGuardia was selected to receive a $2.9 million “First in the World” grant from the Obama Administration and the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) to fund our student success initiatives.

This project grant will allow us to:

●   Support thousands of high-risk students as they move from LaGuardia’s non-credit programs to academic enrollment.

●   Integrate new discipline-based curriculum with co-curricular innovation to launch more than 20,000 new students towards graduation as part of our new First Year Experience seminar.

●   Transform advisement for all LaGuardia students by training and activating College-wide faculty/staff/peer mentor teams.

For more information about our grant check out LaGuardia’s press release http://www.laguardia.cuny.edu/Home/News/LAGCC-Awarded-%E2%80%9CFirst-in-the-World%E2%80%9D-Grant-by-U-S–Department-of-Education/