Final Priorities, Requirements, Definitions, and Selection Criterion-First in the World Program

The Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education announces priorities, requirements, a selection criterion, and definitions under the First in the World (FITW) program. The Assistant Secretary may use these priorities, requirements, selection criterion, and definitions for competitions in fiscal year (FY) 2015 and later years. These priorities, requirements, selection criterion, and definitions will enable the Department to focus the FITW program on identified barriers to student success in postsecondary education and advance the program's purpose to build evidence for what works in postsecondary education through development, evaluation, and dissemination of innovative strategies to support students who are at risk of failure in persisting in and completing their postsecondary programs of study.