The following summarizes key accomplishments of the coalition, our partners, and our members.

Building a Sustainable Infrastructure

• Key government, education, and business and community leaders (now the leadership team) signed an MOU committing them and their organizations to the DTN mission.
• DTN created a management team of key education and community leaders who meet monthly to coordinate actions, align strategies, and develop and manage accountability and results-based frameworks.
• DTN created the College Access Providers Roundtable, which meets monthly to share best practices and work collaboratively in the public schools.

Increasing College-Ready High School Graduates

• DTN’s annual College Awareness Month and OSSE’s College Fair engaged thousands of youth in preparing for college.
• DCPS’ transcript audits and individual graduation plans and OSSE’s Early College High School programs prepared more students for college.
• DTN conducted and published a survey of college access providers that serve DC students, identifying programs, students served, and gaps in services.
• The HERO program helped more than 160 African American and Latino males.

Improving Postsecondary Transitions

• DTN created several school-based Collaboratives through which diverse college access providers work together to bring greater coherence, innovation, and efficiency in preparing students for postsecondary education.
• The Achievers Scholarship provided academic and mentoring support and awarded five-year scholarships of $50,000 each to more than 300 Ward 7 and 8 students.
• DC College Success Foundation/Costco Scholarship Breakfast, the Chris Cooley Scholarship Fund, and the Washington Redskins Foundation increased need-based scholarships and awarded more than $800,000 in new dollars.

Increasing College Presistence/Grdauation Rates

• The University of the District of Columbia (UDC) implemented a student retention strategy that increased retention from 37 percent in 2004–05 to 59 percent in 2007–08.
• DC College Access Program created a data system with the capacity to track the extent to which DC students stay enrolled in college.

• DTN policy priorities going forward.