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Download full textCyrette 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
Peer reviewedJackie Hoermann-Elliott; Shawnda Smith; Mark S. Hamner; Michael Stankey – Journal of College Academic Support Programs, 2025
In response to soaring developmental education enrollments in Texas, the Pioneer Prep Program at Texas Woman's University (TWU) was designed as an alternative pathways-to-placement program for students who neither passed the Texas Success Initiative Assessment (TSIA) nor met other college-readiness benchmarks needed to enroll in college-level…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Student Placement, College English, College Mathematics
Direct linkRyan S. Wells; Ling Chen – Educational Policy, 2025
As postsecondary developmental education policy reforms are implemented, increased attention must be given to students with learning and attention disabilities. The purpose of this study was to bring these students into the conversation, by examining their representation in developmental education broadly, as well the effect of this intervention…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Learning Disabilities, Developmental Studies Programs, Disproportionate Representation
Joseph Phillip Husong – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study focused on understanding the circumstances that led to students being placed on academic probation and the effect of a support program on their academic recovery. Understanding students lived experiences that lead to academic underperformance is vital to the development and implementation of academic support programs. Ensuring that the…
Descriptors: Academic Probation, Student School Relationship, Academic Persistence, Student Experience
Marbella Uriostegui; Leanne Davis; Pablo Lopez Trujillo; Manuel Vazquez – Education Northwest, 2025
California Reconnect is a three-year initiative (2023-2026) led by InsideTrack, in partnership with the Institute for Higher Education Policy, to support re-enrollment and success of learners with some college but no credential (SCNC). Education Northwest is conducting a multi-year mixed-methods evaluation of the initiative. This interim…
Descriptors: Reentry Students, College Enrollment, Outreach Programs, Program Effectiveness
Rossman, Daniel; Kurzweil, Martin; Lewis, Bethany – ITHAKA S+R, 2023
Monitoring Advising Analytics to Promote Success (MAAPS)is a multi-institutional project of the University Innovation Alliance (UIA) initially funded and supported by a US Department of Education First in the World Grant to Georgia State, the lead UIA member on this project. MAAPS is a large-scale randomized-controlled trial designed to validate…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Low Income Students, First Generation College Students, College Students
Rebecca A. Grant – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this qualitative evaluation was to understand how the Ascent program, a bridge initiative at Plymouth State University, programmatically addressed institutional concerns regarding student retention and persistence during its three-year pilot phase, according to the perceptions of past participants, faculty, and administrators. The…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Transitional Programs, School Holding Power, Academic Persistence
What Works Clearinghouse, 2022
Large numbers of students who enroll in college do not complete a degree. Yet, earning a college degree is one of the primary pathways for economic success and is increasingly required for good jobs and high wages. The way students interpret early academic struggles in college may affect whether or not they remain enrolled. If students attribute…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Intervention, Enrollment, Academic Achievement
What Works Clearinghouse, 2022
Large numbers of students who enroll in college do not complete a degree. If students attribute their academic challenges to a perceived lack of intelligence or inability to succeed in college, they may be less likely to persist. "Growth Mindset" interventions aim to improve college persistence and academic achievement by encouraging…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Intervention, Enrollment, Academic Achievement
What Works Clearinghouse, 2022
"Growth Mindset" interventions aim to improve college persistence and academic achievement by encouraging students to view intelligence as a "malleable" characteristic that grows with effort, and to view academic challenges as temporary setbacks that they can overcome. This What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) report explores the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Intervention, Enrollment, Academic Achievement
Caitlyn A. Bukaty; Clare Papay – Institute for Community Inclusion, 2023
Completing a program of study and earning a credential is a mark of student perseverance and success. Student completion rates can tell us how well colleges and universities support students in completing an educational program. A research study by the US Department of Education reported students who completed non-degree certificate programs had…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Students, Postsecondary Education, Students with Disabilities
Sheila Williamson-Branch – ProQuest LLC, 2023
In 2008, a career-focused university implemented a set of faculty-led retention strategies to address a steady decline in retention. Yet, despite the implementation of this program, retention continued to decline. The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions of full-time faculty and part-time faculty regarding what aspects of the…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, School Holding Power, Academic Persistence, Program Implementation
Shannon Orr – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2024
Student food insecurity is associated with lower grades, depression, higher perceived stress and lower graduation rates. Campuses across the country are responding to the problem in a variety of ways, including distribution of food directly to students through food pantries. This research is based on a national survey of campus food pantries to…
Descriptors: Food, Hunger, Program Implementation, Student Needs
Sommo, Colleen; Lepe, Marco; Ratledge, Alyssa – MDRC, 2022
Open-access colleges are an important pathway to economic mobility for millions of Americans. But graduation rates at these colleges are low--for example, only 36 percent of first-time, full-time freshmen at community colleges graduate within three years. Over the last two decades, MDRC and others have conducted research to build the evidence base…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Academic Support Services, Student Financial Aid
Melissa Landrau Vega – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The migrant student population in the United States has significantly increased in the last few decades. While these students are enrolled in K-12 institutions, the challenges they face as migrant children and the educational systemic barriers they encounter continue to present obstacles for their college completion. Educational agencies must seek…
Descriptors: Cultural Capital, Mexicans, Migrants, College Students
