The Association of Public Land Grant Universities (APLU) has established the Most Visible Progress (MVP) National Degree Completion Awards to recognize an APLU member university that has made significant progress in successfully retaining and graduating students. The awards are to assist in
Project Degree Completion, the commitment statement signed by almost 500 public universities and colleges to boost college completion to 3.8 million bachelor's degrees by 2025. The awards will provide program models and strategies that will be disseminated through an interactive web database and a printed publication.
There will be two MVP Degree Completion Awards, to be presented at the APLU Annual Meeting in November 2013:
The MVP Trailblazer Award is a $20,000 award that will be used to further advance the institution's degree completion initiatives. The MVP Trailblazer Award will be given to one APLU university that has made exceptional progress in increasing retention toward or completion of a bachelor's degree during the last three years.
The MVP Opportunity Award is a $20,000 award that will be used to further advance the institutions degree completion initiatives. The MVP Opportunity Award will be given to one APLU university that has made exceptional progress in increasing retention toward or successful completion of a bachelor's degree for historically underrepresented and underserved students during the last three years.
The deadline to apply for the award is May 15, 2013. For more information including award eligibility, criteria and submission guidelines, visit
here.