Champions for Attainment

2025 Champions for Attainment

Nomination Window Open Through September 23, 2024

WHAT: Awards that recognize exemplary work underway at the local, regional, and/or state level connected to advancing myFutureNC’s Evidence-Based Attainment Strategies to increase access and completion rates among North Carolina’s adult learners.

WHEN: The winners will be announced on February 20, 2025, at the State of Educational Attainment in North Carolina Event.

WHY: myFutureNC’s Evidence-Based Attainment Strategies are essential to reaching 2 million by 2030. It is vital to the myFutureNC Board of Directors to acknowledge and highlight organizations and/or individuals who have embraced the commitment to our state’s attainment goal of 2 million by 2030 and are making a significant impact on increasing access and completion rates among North Carolina’s adult learners. NOTE: myFutureNC continues to support reaching individuals who will not yet be age 25 by 2030, and we will continue to lift up future-focused work in the future.

All nominations must demonstrate success in at least one of the following myFutureNC Evidence-Based Attainment Strategies.
ACCESS:

  1. Streamline Systems to Make Education for High-Demand Jobs More Accessible
  2. Improve Prison Education/Workforce Development & Reentry Services
  3. Recruit More Adults Who Have No Postsecondary Experience Into Education/Training
  4. Employer-Provided Educational Assistance for Current/Future Employees
  5. Outreach and Communication Strategies to Underserved/Underrepresented Adult Learners

COMPLETION:

  1. Scale Effective Approaches to Increase Adult Learner Re-enrollment
  2. Enhance Processes for Credit Mobility
  3. Provide Completion Supports for College Students at Risk of Dropping Out
  4. Convert Workplace Experience/Training Into Measurable Credentials & Degrees

LINK TO NOMINATION FORM

All submissions will be notified by October 25 of the status of their submission. Self nominations are accepted. If you have any questions, please contact myFutureNC Director of Communications & Marketing, Melany Clark at melany@myfuturenc.org.