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Direct linkWassmer, 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
Kathleen E. Launius – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Despite the expansive literature on higher education performance-based funding (PBF) policies, there is an oversaturation of quantitative studies focused on measuring metric performance at the statewide level. These studies have largely found that PBF fails to meet its goal of improving graduation rates and has unintended consequences for…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Graduation Rate, Educational Improvement, Administrator Attitudes
Shafer, Holley – ProQuest LLC, 2021
In response to low completion rates in the California Community College system, the 2012 Seymour Campbell Student Success Act requires districts or colleges to provide all degree- or transfer-seeking students with an opportunity to develop individual Student Educational Plans (SEPs). SEPs are guiding documents prepared in consultation with…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, School Districts, College Transfer Students, State Legislation
Salinas, Cristobal; Friedel, Janice Nahra – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2016
From their very beginnings, the community colleges have demonstrated a commitment to their founding principles of access, affordability, and quality. However, following February 2009, when President Obama set forth the agenda for U.S. postsecondary education to have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world by 2020, priority shifted…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Systems Approach, Systems Analysis, State Colleges
Download full textShulock, Nancy; Offenstein, Jeremy; Esch, Camille – Institute for Higher Education Leadership & Policy, 2011
After decades of focusing on expansion and access, California's institutions of higher education are now being handed a more difficult charge: to dramatically increase the number of college graduates with diminishing state funding. There is a growing consensus that the United States needs to ratchet up its production of college graduates to turn…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Income, Educational Finance, College Graduates
Goldrick-Rab, Sara; Pfeffer, Fabian T. – Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education (NJ1), 2008
Reducing socioeconomic differences in college transfer requires a better understanding of how and why parental education, occupational class, and family income are associated with changing colleges. Building on prior studies of traditional community college transfer we explore relationships between those factors and two types of transfer among…
Descriptors: College Transfer Students, Reverse Transfer Students, Socioeconomic Status, Parent Background
