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Kristin Brooks

Kristin Brooks

Strategy Director at Complete College America, focused on college completion and student success in higher education.

Sep 21, 2026

9:50
What can you tell us here? What are we looking at?
9:52
This partnership really grew out of a demand on the institutional level, right? It was not a...
9:59
We're looking for partners just to look for partners, right? It was very strategic on our end.
10:04
So currently, Complete College America has The Accelerator, which is a grant-funded program through Gates Foundation.
10:14
And with that, we work with about 84 institutions.
10:19
And those 84 institutions have chosen two or three focus areas associated with institutional transformation.
10:28
And of those 84, we have 22 institutions that have said strategic finance is a priority for us, which is huge, right? So we have some partners who are doing a little bit of strategic finance, but it really is focused on that ROI and helping institutions understand ROI associated with their programs and kind of the traditional things that strategic finance has included.

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16:58
What are the alignment problems and how it connects to this work?

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