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Waugh, Alexandra – Jobs For the Future, 2016
A growing body of evidence reveals that a central factor in low completion rates for community college students is the "cafeteria" style approach to college, which provides entering students with a dizzying array of choices and little guidance on navigating those choices. A poor decision on which classes to take can cost community…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Graduation Rate, Two Year College Students, School Holding Power
Prentice, Mary – American Association of Community Colleges (NJ1), 2002
In 1994 and again in 1997, AACC selected groups of institutions, known as Horizons colleges, to work together in collaborative mentoring relationships to build campus-based service-learning programs. While the number of service learning programs has grown significantly, not all of those programs are sustained by colleges for the long term. This…
Descriptors: Mentors, Service Learning, Community Colleges, College Environment
Byrne, Desiree Kornrum – Online Submission, 2006
The economic success of the state of Texas is dependent upon future market participants having access to higher education. The ability of Texas citizens to access higher education is dependent upon access to financial aid resources to pay for higher education. Much is known about the impact of particular financial aid outcomes on access and…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Higher Education, Databases, Public Colleges
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Layton, Elizabeth N. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1954
The continued interest in the development and improvement of general education programs in the colleges and universities has prompted the Office of Education to publish this bibliography for the period 1949-1953. In compiling this bibliography on general education an attempt has been made to include only articles and materials: (1) reporting…
Descriptors: Educational History, Annotated Bibliographies, College Curriculum, Curriculum Development