Funded by Gates, Lumina and others, the Complete College America project was announced in March 2010 and intends to focus on dramatically increasing the nation’s college completion rate through state policy change. The project aims to build “consensus for change among state leaders, higher education, and the national education policy community.”  Stan Jones, who spent 30 years working on higher education issues as a legislator, gubernatorial adviser and commissioner of higher education in Indiana, heads the project. Their work will model their efforts in Tennessee,where Complete College America helped Gov. Phil Bredesen propel a measure through the state General Assembly that directs the state’s Board of Regents and Higher Education Commission to rewrite the higher education funding formula to emphasize credential completion over seat time, remove barriers to credit transfer among institutions, and create a community college system.