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Direct linkCristina Aguirre – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Access to post-secondary education for first-generation college students (FGCS) has become even more important after COVID-19 brought to the forefront the most affected in the workforce: those who had a high school degree or less. College access programs play a vital role to move the needle in closing the educational achievement gap. These…
Descriptors: College Programs, Access to Education, Program Effectiveness, Grade 3
Download full textWheatle, Katherine; Taylor, Jason; Bragg, Debra; Ajinkya, Julie – Institute for Higher Education Policy, 2017
Each year millions of Americans make the decision to pursue a college education to improve their skill sets, boost their earning potential and transform their life circumstances. Yet almost 1 in 5 students leaves empty-handed after investing precious time and valuable resources. And many who amass student loan debt are crippled by the burden of…
Descriptors: College Students, Community Colleges, Time to Degree, College Graduates
Lapid, Patrick Andrew – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This thesis examines two uncommon topics in the economic literature regarding college access and completion: the role of college proximity in recent high school graduates' enrollment decisions, and how structural changes to the student experience at a postsecondary institution can affect college completion. The first chapter is a review of the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Higher Education, Graduation, Proximity
Excelencia in Education, 2018
What works to increase success for Latinos in colleges and universities? Since 2005, Examples of Excelencia has been the only national effort to recognize evidence-based practices that accelerate Latino student success in higher education. Through this process, "Excelencia" recognizes programs in three different academic levels as well…
Descriptors: College Students, Hispanic American Students, Best Practices, Academic Achievement
Scrivener, Susan; Weiss, Michael J.; Sommo, Colleen – MDRC, 2012
In recent years, there has been unprecedented national focus on the importance of increasing graduation rates for community college students. Many reforms have been tried, but college completion rates remain stubbornly low: Only one-third of entering students graduate with a degree or certificate within five years. Reforms are often short-term,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Associate Degrees, Acceleration (Education)
Scrivener, Susan; Weiss, Michael J.; Sommo, Colleen – MDRC, 2012
In recent years, there has been unprecedented national focus on the importance of increasing the stubbornly low graduation rates of community college students. Most reforms that have been tried are short-term and address one or only a few barriers to student success. The City University of New York's (CUNY's) Accelerated Study in Associate…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Associate Degrees, Acceleration (Education)
