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Download full textSommo, Colleen; Cullinan, Dan; Manno, Michelle – MDRC, 2018
While the United States has made strides in increasing college access among low-income students, college completion has remained low. Graduation rates are particularly low at the nation's community colleges, which enroll a disproportionate percentage of low-income and nontraditional college students. Seeking to address this problem, in 2014 three…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Low Income Students
Sommo, Colleen; Boynton, Melissa; Collado, Herbert; Diamond, John; Gardenhire, Alissa; Ratledge, Alyssa; Rudd, Timothy; Weiss, Michael J. – MDRC, 2014
In 2010, Hillsborough Community College (HCC), a large multicampus institution in Tampa, Florida, worked with MDRC to create the Mathematics Access Performance Scholarship (MAPS) program to help academically underprepared community college students succeed in developmental math. MAPS provides an incentive for low-income students referred to…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Remedial Mathematics, Scholarships, Two Year College Students
Sommo, Colleen; Ratledge, Alyssa – MDRC, 2016
Nationally, community college graduation rates remain stubbornly low, despite strides made in access--and they are particularly so for low-income students, nontraditional students, and students who need to take developmental (remedial) courses. In 2014, three schools in Ohio--Cincinnati State Technical and Community College, Cuyahoga Community…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Acceleration (Education), Associate Degrees, Two Year College Students
Patel, Reshma; Valenzuela, Ireri – MDRC, 2013
While postsecondary completion rates are a concern among many student populations across the country, college graduation rates for Latino students, especially Latino male students, are even lower than the national average. Low-income Latino men face many barriers to postsecondary success, including both financial and personal obstacles. This…
Descriptors: Scholarships, Demonstration Programs, Low Income Groups, Hispanic American Students
Miller, Cynthia; Binder, Melissa; Harris, Vanessa; Krause, Kate – MDRC, 2011
Although a growing number of individuals are enrolling in college in response to the increasing payoff to higher education, more than a third of them never finish. College completion rates are especially disappointing for low-income students, in many cases because they tend to enter college underprepared academically but also because they have…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Program Effectiveness, Scholarships, Financial Support
Cha, Paulette; Patel, Reshma – MDRC, 2010
This report presents early results from a rigorous evaluation of a performance-based scholarship program that was implemented at three community colleges in Ohio during the 2008-2009 academic year. The program in Ohio that is the subject of this report is part of MDRC's national Performance-Based Scholarship (PBS) Demonstration, which was launched…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Program Effectiveness, Scholarships, Low Income Groups
