{"id":3610,"date":"2020-09-28T15:55:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T19:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/earlhamcollege.wpengine.com\/?p=3610"},"modified":"2021-03-09T16:07:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T21:07:09","slug":"lilly-endowment-awards-ec-1m-to-support-student-success-increase-dual-enrollment-and-community-college-transfers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlham.edu\/news-events\/lilly-endowment-awards-ec-1m-to-support-student-success-increase-dual-enrollment-and-community-college-transfers\/","title":{"rendered":"Lilly Endowment awards EC $1M to support student success; increase dual enrollment and community college transfers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Lilly Endowment Inc. has made a $1 million grant to Earlham College to support \u201cGrow Where You\u2019re Planted: Deepening Our Roots,\u201d a three-year project that will enhance Earlham\u2019s student advising resources and expand learning opportunities for Indiana\u2019s community college and high school students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The grant was made through Charting the Future for Indiana\u2019s Colleges and Universities, a Lilly Endowment initiative designed to help all of Indiana\u2019s 38 accredited public and private colleges and universities consider what it would take to improve their efforts to prepare students for successful futures while thoughtfully examining the long-term financial sustainability of their institutions. \u201cGrow Where You\u2019re Planted\u201d is the second project at Earlham that Lilly Endowment has supported in six years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are so grateful for this grant that will enable us to put new infrastructure in place to empower students to begin planning their future the moment they become Earlhamites,\u201d Earlham President Anne Houtman said. \u201cThis effort will also allow us to expand our educational mission so that we can attract and support a wider array of learners who live in our backyard and can benefit from the very best of the liberal arts.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are five priorities for the project:<\/p>\n\n\n\n