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AmeriCorps launches program to help community college students graduate
22 paid volunteers will mentor 2,200 community college students in Ohio until graduation.
by WKSU's SIMON HUSTED

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A new state program this year will be giving 22-hundred community college students across Ohio a coach to help them graduate or earn their one-year certificate.

The program is hiring 22 AmeriCorps volunteers to mentor first-year students across 10 community college campuses that include Cuyahoga Community College and Lakeland Community College. In exchange, the coaches will be given more than 55-hundred dollars each year to pay off their college debt, and a living allowance. 

Bridget McFadden with AmeriCorps Ohio says the coaches are different from academic advisors because they focus on students with greater financial needs who are taking remedial coursework.

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“They are really like coaches and they are there to provide motivation and point students to the resources that are available on their campus -- kind of act as an early alert system of sorts,” McFadden says. 

A 2011 study says nearly one out of every five community college students in Ohio drops out after their first year. Ronald Abrams is president of the Ohio Association of Community Colleges and says he has confidence the new pilot program will help change that.

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“I’ve been involved in this business for a long time and we’ve been focusing on this success agenda for a while,” Abrams says. “This is one of the most exciting projects that I’ve seen come along. It has as much potential, if not more potential than anything else that is being explored across the country today.”

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