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Download full textCalifornia Community Colleges, Chancellor's Office, 2025
The Student Equity and Achievement (SEA) Program was established during the 2018-19 legislative and budget cycle by the California State Legislature and Administration to consolidate funding for three interrelated categorical programs: the Basic Skills Initiative, the Student Equity Program, and the Student Success and Support Program. Pursuant to…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Academic Achievement, Community Colleges, Guided Pathways
Cyrette Saunier; Susan Scrivener; Austin Slaughter; Noor Amanullah; Sukanya Barman; Cynthia Miller; Colleen Sommo; Erick Alonzo, Contributor; Osvaldo Avila, Contributor; Katie Beal, Contributor; Parker Cellura, Contributor; Ben Cohen, Contributor; Stanley Dai, Contributor; Hannah Dalporto, Contributor; Claudia Escobar, Contributor; Colin Hill, Contributor; Marco Lepe, Contributor; Tiffany Morton, Contributor; Rebekah O’Donoghue, Contributor; Vivianna Plancarte, Contributor; Alyssa Ratledge, Contributor; Elena Serna-Wallender, Contributor; Andrea Vasquez, Contributor; Rae Walker, Contributor; Michelle Ware, Contributor; Kayla Warner, Contributor; Melissa Wavelet, Contributor; Michael Weiss, Contributor; Diane Wren, Contributor – MDRC, 2025
Community colleges and broad-access universities (those with minimally selective admissions policies) provide an opportunity for students across the United States to attain postsecondary degrees and achieve economic mobility. However, graduation rates from such colleges are often low and there are many obstacles that can be difficult to…
Descriptors: Intervention, Academic Persistence, Program Development, Costs
California Community Colleges, Chancellor's Office, 2025
Education Code section 79511 requires the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office to submit a report each year on the the Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Student Achievement Program (AANHPI SAP). The AANHPI SAP is in its second year of implementation with 50 colleges participating. Before the full implementation in the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Program Administration, Program Effectiveness, Resource Allocation
Peer reviewedMonica W. Walker; Stacie A. Miller; Adrianne S. Washington – Teaching and Learning Excellence through Scholarship, 2023
For over 2 decades, the Learning Community Program has impacted students at the Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC), with its emphasis on critical thinking, community, belonging, and student success. Faculty teaching this high-impact practice (HIP) not only implement an integrated curriculum in 2 paired courses representing different…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Communities of Practice, College Programs, Critical Thinking
Michael R. Moore; Brad Piazza – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2023
The rising costs of course materials have higher education stakeholders seeking alternative models to the traditional course materials acquisition model. One model of interest is Inclusive Access. Inclusive Access has had a sudden rise in adoption across the country which has left gaps in the literature as to the effectiveness of such programs. A…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Technical Education, Student Costs, Instructional Materials
Direct linkMokher, Christine G.; Park-Gaghan, Toby J.; Hu, Shouping – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2023
Florida's developmental education reform has benefitted most students directly impacted by the reform and has helped to reduce existing achievement gaps by race/ethnicity, English Language Learner status, and academic preparation in short-term outcomes like college course-taking and credit accumulation. Even though the reform was not specifically…
Descriptors: Remedial Instruction, Educational Change, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap
Japbir Gill; Trey Miller – Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice, 2022
As the price of college and its associated costs continue to rise, students are often left without the necessary financial resources to succeed in class and cover their basic needs. According to previous research, a student's ability to cover essential expenses poses a significant barrier to degree completion. Students' ability to cover expenses…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Community Colleges, Student Financial Aid, Noninstructional Student Costs
Bozick, Robert; Mulhern, Christine – RAND Corporation, 2023
This Perspective builds on a related RAND Corporation report that describes the implementation of Findhelp at four North Carolina community colleges in 2021 and 2022. Findhelp is an online tool to connect students to resources in their communities to help meet their basic nonacademic needs. The North Carolina Community College System, with support…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Needs, Community Resources, Community College Students
Jennifer Ashley Fletcher – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In the United States truancy prevention is lacking two key elements to success; research that explains the causes of truancy and empirical evidence for best practices of truancy prevention. Truancy has been a problem in academics since the early 1900's, when truancy became illegal. Since then, truancy rates have continued to see a steady increase,…
Descriptors: Truancy, Prevention, Best Practices, Community Programs
Olivia Bensimon; Eli Dvorkin – Center for an Urban Future, 2023
Few student success programs nationally have been as effective as CUNY's Accelerated Study in Associate Programs (ASAP) initiative, which has grown to serve 25,000 community college students. CUNY has a promising program modeled on ASAP that is helping students at senior colleges complete their bachelor's degrees on time: the Accelerate, Complete,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community College Students, Associate Degrees, Bachelors Degrees
Shena D. Kiper – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study provides an overview of the literature of Florida's only Community Partnership Schools™ model, as a strategy to enhance family and community engagement in low performing high poverty elementary schools. More specifically, the focus of this study was to determine to what degree parents perceived the effectiveness of family and community…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Parent Attitudes, Partnerships in Education, Community Involvement
Holly J. Sawyers – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this quantitative study was to investigate the meaningful impacts of FYS courses on student success, academic performance, and retention rates in a large urban community college. Using quantitative research methods, the researcher compared Fall 2022 and Spring 2023 institutional data of enrollment and retention to evaluate student…
Descriptors: First Year Seminars, Program Effectiveness, Urban Schools, Academic Achievement
Biniam Tesfamariam; Charlotte C. Gullick; Wendy Maragh Taylor; Christopher Bjork; Elizabeth H. Bradley – Community College Review, 2025
Objective: Although most community college students intend to transfer to a 4-year college, few ultimately do. We sought to assess how student experiences of the Exploring Transfer (ET) program influenced transfer rates. The ET program was offered by a private, 4-year liberal arts college. Methods: We used data from a cross-sectional survey of…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community College Students, Transfer of Training, Transfer Policy
Alyssa Blanchard; Jenna Terrell; Hayley Spencer – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2025
Background: The burdens of student debt and financial instability have contributed to a significant number of students pausing or stopping out of their postsecondary education. Nationally, it is estimated that over 36 million Americans have some college credits but no degree, a reflection of this growing problem (National Student Clearinghouse…
Descriptors: Stopouts, Community College Students, Program Effectiveness, Academic Achievement
Justina M. Thomas – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this study was to implement a redesign of developmental education at Delaware Technical Community College and to evaluate its effectiveness in improving overall First Time Ever in College (FTEIC) student success through gateway English and math completion, fall-to-fall persistence, and narrowing or closing of opportunity gaps…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Community Colleges, Technical Institutes, Academic Achievement
