According to The Chronicle of Higher Education, Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count "not only gathers data on colleges but also helps them collect the information and build their institutional-research capacities." CCRC Director Thomas Bailey is cited in the article.

"Ultimately our goal is to make sure that every college can do the research themselves," says Thomas R. Bailey, director of the Community College Research Center at Columbia University's Teachers College. The center is a partner with Achieving the Dream. "There are a million questions that a college could ask about itself, and there's no way outside researchers could get at all of that."

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