Aligning the Needs of Multiple Campuses and Communities: The Learn and Serve America Application Process

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Abstract

The Lone Star College System is a five-college system located northwest of Houston, Texas. This paper chronicles the effort to secure funding from Learn and Serve America during its most recent application cycle. Most challenging in the process was the effort to effectively incorporate the needs of multiple constituencies over a large service area.

Author

• Clark Friesen, Tomball College