Addressing basic needs at portland community college (ABN-PCC)

Portland Community College (PCC) was awarded an $867,839 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education under the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) program. The three-year grant project, titled "Addressing Basic Needs at Portland Community College" (ABN-PCC), will support PCC in implementing innovative strategies to improve postsecondary instruction and expand opportunities for its students. Specifically, ABN-PCC aims to directly fund activities and services that address students' basic needs to help them persist and succeed in their education. Given FIPSE's goal of supporting institutional reforms and innovative strategies at the postsecondary level, this grant will enable PCC to test approaches to meeting students' basic needs as a means of improving instructional quality and access to postsecondary opportunities.