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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
North Carolina Community College System, 2025
The Performance Measures for Student Success Report is the North Carolina Community College System's major accountability document. This annual performance report is based on data compiled during the previous year and serves to inform colleges and the public on the performance of North Carolina's 58 community colleges. In 2010, a review process…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community College Students, Academic Achievement, Performance
Single Mother Students Are Lacking Sufficient Support to Persist to Graduation in Community Colleges
Peer reviewedRichardson, 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
North Carolina Community College System, 2024
The Performance Measures for Student Success Report is the North Carolina Community College System's major accountability document. This annual performance report is based on data compiled during the previous year and serves to inform colleges and the public on the performance of North Carolina's 58 community colleges. In 2010, a review process…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community College Students, Skill Development, Basic Skills
Direct linkVanNest, Victoria – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The problem this study addressed is that undergraduate, female, single parent students are less likely than other groups of women to complete college. The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to explore perceived challenges of persistence to degree completion of undergraduate, female, single parent students in a Southern state, at a…
Descriptors: One Parent Family, Mothers, Females, Graduation Rate
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
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
Juliana Louise Pearson – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Nationwide, many students who enroll in community college programs fail to persist in postsecondary education or complete a credential. The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) Two-Year Occupational Grant Pilot Program (the Occupational Grant) was a financial aid program designed to increase persistence and completion rates through…
Descriptors: State Colleges, Universities, Grants, Student Financial Aid
North Carolina Community College System, 2023
The Performance Measures for Student Success Report is the North Carolina Community College System's major accountability document. This annual performance report is based on data compiled during the previous year and serves to inform colleges and the public on the performance of our 58 community colleges. In 2010, a review process was established…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Performance, Community College Students, Skill Development
Carey Schroyer – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Low persistence and high attrition rates in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) are major challenges in higher education, particularly among underrepresented students. Therefore, it is important to identify barriers and examine strategies aimed at improving persistence, retention, and student completion in STEM courses and…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Higher Education, Barriers, Academic Persistence
Maryland Higher Education Commission, 2022
This annual report discusses data on the numbers of students who registered with disability services at Maryland colleges and universities and their completion and retention outcomes. To better understand higher education outcomes for students with disabilities in Maryland, the Maryland Higher Education Commission (MHEC), in collaboration with the…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, College Students, School Holding Power, Graduation Rate
Wyoming Community College Commission, 2024
Wyoming community colleges provide dynamic lifelong learning environments through higher education, workforce development, innovative partnerships, and civic and global engagement that lead to responsible citizenship and economic, social, and cultural prosperity. Planning for the future of Wyoming's community colleges and fulfilling the mission of…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community College Students, Academic Achievement, School Holding Power
Trey Miller; Holly Kosiewicz; Melissa Martinez; Kelley Glover; Genna Campain; Rodney Andrews – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2025
While most community college students enroll part-time, there is little evidence on how to effectively improve college attainment of part-time students. This mixed methods study, situated in Texas, addresses this research gap by developing a more complete understanding of the part-time student population, their challenges and needs, as well as the…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Community Colleges, Student Needs, Part Time Students
Walker, Carolyn – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2019
Community college leaders seeking best practices to improve completion rates and student success have a strategy to consider -- experiential learning as part of a course. An accounting business course, at a mid-sized community college in the southeast, recently implemented an experiential learning activity to determine the association with…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Academic Persistence
Nebraska's Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education, 2024
Chapter 1 of the "Comprehensive Statewide Plan for Postsecondary Education" identifies several statewide goals related to meeting the needs of students, meeting the needs of the state, meeting needs by building exemplary institutions, and meeting educational needs through partnerships and collaboration. These goals are critical to the…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Public Colleges, Community Colleges, State Universities
