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Direct linkPeter Riley Bahr; Yiran Chen; Claire A. Boeck; Paula Clasing-Manquian; Phyllis Cummins – Community College Review, 2025
Objective: Policymakers in many states are endeavoring to increase graduation rates among older community college students. However, we know little about how the factors that influence college completion among older students differ from their younger peers. We aim to identify features of institutional contexts in which adult community college…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Adult Students, Nontraditional Students, Institutional Characteristics
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
Robert Kelchen; Justin Ortagus; Kelly Rosinger; Dominique Baker; Mitch Lingo – Educational Researcher, 2024
We compiled the first longitudinal data set with detailed state funding information to examine whether different funding strategies for public higher education correlate with college access and completion, with a focus on outcomes among racially minoritized students. We found no relationships between funding mechanisms and student outcomes at…
Descriptors: State Aid, Educational Finance, Higher Education, Access to Education
Lena Shi – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
Students' college choices can affect their chances of earning a degree, but many lack the support to navigate the opaque college application and admissions process. This paper evaluates whether guaranteeing four-year college admissions based on transparent academic standards affected community college students' enrollment choices and graduation…
Descriptors: College Choice, College Admission, College Transfer Students, Admission Criteria
Single Mother Students Are Lacking Sufficient Support to Persist to Graduation in Community Colleges
Richardson, Fathia; Harrington, Christine – Impacting Education: Journal on Transforming Professional Practice, 2022
Despite high levels of motivation, only 8% of single mothers who attend a community college will graduate (Cruse, Milli et al., 2019). As a component of this Dissertation in Practice, a systematic literature review was conducted to explore the reasons behind these unacceptably low success rates. Based on data from empathy interviews, peer-reviewed…
Descriptors: One Parent Family, Mothers, Academic Persistence, Community Colleges
Wassmer, Robert; Galloway, Meredith – Community College Review, 2023
Objective: Six-year cohort completion rates calculated for California community college students--who declared their goal to obtain a certificate, associate degree, or become university transfer ready--averaged just below 50% for cohorts entering the fall semesters between 2007 and 2011. The range of this completion rate varied from 23% to 67%.…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Success, Community Colleges, Graduation Rate
Cook, Maxwell J.; Koedel, Cory; Reda, Michael – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2022
We estimate the education and earnings returns to enrolling in technical two-year degree programs at community colleges in Missouri. A unique feature of the Missouri context is the presence of a highly-regarded, nationally-ranked technical college: State Technical College of Missouri (State Tech). Compared to enrolling in a non-technical community…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Education Work Relationship, Income, Postsecondary Education
Wassmer, Robert; Galloway, Meredith – Educational Policy, 2023
Only a quarter of full-time U.S. students complete their desired goal from community college attendance, with the rate of success even lower for Latinx students. This panel-data regression study looks for evidence regarding the expected influence of increasing the presence of Latinx faculty or administrators on cohort completion rates for all…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, College Faculty, Administrators, Community College Students
Maryland Higher Education Commission, 2023
This annual report provides information regarding students who registered with disability services at Maryland colleges and universities. To better understand higher education outcomes for students with disabilities in Maryland, the Maryland Higher Education Commission (MHEC), in collaboration with the Maryland Department of Disabilities and in…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, College Students, School Holding Power, Graduation Rate
Bird, Kelli A.; Castleman, Benjamin L.; Song, Yifeng; Mabel, Zachary – Education Next, 2021
An estimated 1,400 colleges and universities nationwide have invested in predictive analytics technology to identify which students are at risk of failing courses or dropping out, with spending estimated in the hundreds of millions of dollars. How accurate and stable are those predictions? The authors put six predictive models to the test to gain…
Descriptors: Prediction, Models, Data Analysis, Community Colleges
Ison, Matthew P. – Community College Review, 2022
Objective: Dual enrollment has become a significant portion of community college enrollment throughout the country. Some scholars have argued that dual enrollment implementation can be used as a viable policy lever to achieve the certificate and associate degree obtainment outcomes identified in "Reclaiming the American Dream," a…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, Community Colleges, Educational Finance, Performance
Mellons, Victoria N.; Channing, Jill; Ko, Kwangman; Lampley, James; Moreland, Amy – Education Leadership Review of Doctoral Research, 2022
The purpose of this non-experimental quantitative study was to evaluate the relationships between completion of high school dual enrollment courses and subsequent success of first-time, full-time community college students as measured by completion of an associate degree and time to completion of the degree. In addition to comparing dual and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community College Students, Dual Enrollment, Success
Kamer, Jacob A.; Ishitani, Terry – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2021
Two-year public colleges serve roughly one-third of undergraduate students in the United States, and, like other types of colleges across the country, they face shifting population demographics. Additionally, completion rates at two-year institutions have received political and scholarly attention within states and across the nation in recent…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Graduation Rate, Two Year College Students, Community Colleges
Regional Educational Laboratory Pacific, 2024
These appendixes provide the technical details, methods, and results for the accompanying infographic. The importance of the study, including guiding research questions, is addressed in appendix A, while the study's research approach and detailed results are provided in appendix B.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Certification, Teacher Persistence, Teacher Recruitment
Howard, Martine; Harrington, Christine – Impacting Education: Journal on Transforming Professional Practice, 2022
The "on-time" degree completion crisis within the community college system is alarming. Only 5% of students graduate in two years (Complete College America [CCA], n.d.-a). Many community college students are low-income and racially and ethnically minoritized, and their graduation rates are low (CCA, n.d.-a). Community colleges around the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Time to Degree, Achievement Gap
