Honda has contributed $25,000 to the Alamance Community College Foundation toward the College’s Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) aimed at benefiting current and future students.
Alamance Community College’s QEP is a required tenet of its accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC). The QEP is a broad-based self-study and discovery process to identify and become involved in a plan that will enhance overall student learning and learning environment at the institution. The College’s QEP is a five-year project that is expected to become part of the college’s culture.
ACC selected as its QEP this year: Get on the RAFT – Rise and Flourish Together. RAFT focuses on improving curriculum and student success through enhanced and integrated mental health awareness, support, and services. The initiative seeks to meet students where they are, and show them they are part of a community eager to support them.
The Honda contribution will help provide resources for several community needs under ACC’s RAFT program:
- Provide “First Aid” education and training for faculty, staff, and students. Training will encompass mental health awareness, recognition of warning signs, appropriate responses and campus referral process.
- Launch awareness campaign to help destigmatize mental health and publicize availability of campus support services.
- Promote mental health strategies through student programs and activities.
ACC’s mascot, Haw the Otter, and its real-life counterparts in nature, was the inspiration for the Quality Enhancement Plan’s RAFT theme. Otters are known to lock paws and rest in a self-made “raft” as they drift down a river.
About the Alamance Community College Foundation:
The ACC Foundation exists to aid students with a demonstrated financial need in reaching their educational goals, while supporting the mission of ACC. The Office of Institutional Advancement supports, promotes, and encourages the College’s mission and vision. Institutional Advancement promotes student access, retention, and completion. It also communicates with retirees, alumni and community partners. Institutional Advancement accomplishes its mission through fundraising, grant management, alumni relations and student leadership development.
About Honda Corporate Social Responsibility and the Honda USA Foundation:
For more than 60 years in the U.S., Honda has been committed to making positive contributions to the communities where its associates live and work. Honda’s mission is to create products and services that help people fulfill their life’s potential, while conducting business in a sustainable manner and fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. Advancing its corporate social responsibility, Honda and the Honda USA Foundation support this direction through giving focused on education, the environment, mobility, traffic safety and community. Learn more at http://csr.honda.com/.