{"id":7391,"date":"2011-07-26T15:16:57","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T20:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=7391"},"modified":"2011-07-26T15:16:57","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T20:16:57","slug":"with-1-million-grant-apsu-named-key-leader-in-improving-graduation-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2011\/07\/26\/with-1-million-grant-apsu-named-key-leader-in-improving-graduation-rate\/","title":{"rendered":"With $1 million grant, APSU named key leader in improving graduation rate"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AustinClarksville, TN<\/strong> – Austin Peay State University will be the key leader in Tennessee to help other colleges and universities with a nationwide challenge to impact degree completion in higher education with the help of a $1 million Completion Innovation Challenge grant.<\/p>\n

In July 2010, the National Governors Association adopted Complete College America\u2019s metrics as part of its Complete to Compete initiative. All 50 states competed for $1 million grants to fuel reform in college completion.<\/p>\n

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Gov. Bill Haslam (from left), APSU Provost Dr. Tristan Denley, Dr. Richard Rhoda, executive director of Tennessee Higher Education Commission, and Stan Jones, president of Complete College America, announce Tennessee as the recipient of a $1 million Complete Innovation Challenge grant July 25th in Nashville. (Photo by Bill Persinger, APSU Public Relations and Marketing)<\/p><\/div>\n

Gov. Bill Haslam formally announced July 25 that Tennessee is one of 10 states to receive the $1 million, 18-month implementation grant funded by Complete College America with support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is exciting news that complements our continued focus on improving education in Tennessee,\u201d Haslam said during a press conference today in Nashville. \u201cOn behalf of Tennesseans, we appreciate Complete College America and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for making this investment to support our efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n

Grants were awarded to states that produced the best plans to develop and deploy innovative, statewide strategies designed to increase college completion.<\/p>\n

One of the centerpieces of Tennessee\u2019s grant proposal was a new initiative introduced at APSU in April 2011. APSU\u2019s Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Dr. Tristan Denley developed a Course Recommendation System that helps pair students with courses that best their talents and programs of study. Using what has come to be known as the \u201cNetflix Effect,\u201d the system provides each student with personalized recommendations based on their academic transcript. Since its debut, the tool has gained national attention in higher education circles because of its abilities to help students stay on track to graduation.<\/p>\n

With the support of the grant, Denley will lead a team that will work to further refine the innovation. He also will work with the Tennessee Higher Education Commission to develop the system so that it can be deployed statewide to help boost the state\u2019s higher education graduation rates among community colleges and four-year institutions.<\/p>\n

APSU President Tim Hall said he is pleased to see the enthusiasm and confidence being placed in the University\u2019s Course Recommendation System.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m proud to see Austin Peay where we constantly strive to be\u2014at the leading edge of efforts to help more of our students succeed,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m especially gratified to see the attention given to Dr. Denley\u2019s new advising tool.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clarksville, TN – Austin Peay State University will be the key leader in Tennessee to help other colleges and universities with a nationwide challenge to impact degree completion in higher education with the help of a $1 million Completion Innovation Challenge grant. In July 2010, the National Governors Association adopted Complete College America\u2019s metrics as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,262,9663,8513,9664,9665,5617,9666,6401,9667,1758,1342,2960],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-1Vd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7391"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7391"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7393,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7391\/revisions\/7393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}