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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
Paul G. Vallas – Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, 2024
Students who have dropped out of high school--and those at risk of doing so--are at greater risk of lifelong poverty, involvement with the criminal justice system, dependence on government welfare programs, and even premature death. In the last few years, however, the problems at high schools have compounded, as pandemic-era school closures led to…
Descriptors: High Schools, Work Study Programs, At Risk Students, Dropouts
Peer reviewedLisa M. Harlan-Williams; Marcia Pomeroy; W. Todd Moore; Karin Chang; Devin C. Koestler; Emily Nissen; John Fife; Megha Ramaswamy; Danny R. Welch; Roy A. Jensen – Journal of STEM Outreach, 2024
The Accelerate Cancer Education (ACE) summer research program at The University of Kansas Cancer Center (KUCC) is a six-week, cancer-focused, summer research experience for high school students from historically marginalized populations in the Kansas City metropolitan area. Cancer affects all populations and continues to be the second leading…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Cancer, Scientific Research, High School Students
Direct linkJoseph 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
Jessica Grant DiVenuti Whitten – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Great Expectations is a Virginia Community College System program for youth who were in foster care after the age of 13. Foster youth enter college with multiple disadvantages, including being less academically prepared compared to their peers and often lacking social support for their education. A program evaluation was conducted at a specific…
Descriptors: Foster Care, Community Colleges, Program Implementation, Fidelity
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
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
Mulhern, Christine; Hyde, Kelly; Morales, Sam; Anderson, Drew M.; Phillips, Brian; Huguet, Alice – RAND Corporation, 2023
Community colleges enroll a diverse set of students who often face challenges meeting their basic needs. This report describes the potential benefits and costs of one low-cost and relatively light-touch tool that colleges might use to increase students' access to basic needs assistance. The authors focus on the Findhelp platform, which is modeled…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Program Implementation, Program Costs, Program Effectiveness
Susan Sepanik – Center for the Analysis of Postsecondary Readiness, 2023
Large numbers of students entering community colleges are deemed not academically prepared for college-level math. These students have historically been assigned to one or more non-credit-bearing courses for remedial, often called developmental, math instruction before they can take college-level courses. Research has found that most students…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Mathematics, Remedial Mathematics, Developmental Studies Programs
Katelyn Darellen O'Farrell – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Adverse life events and trauma have the potential to devastate college students' lives across all domains of well-being, including physical, emotional, intellectual, spiritual, and social. Thriving despite these challenges requires academic resilience. Physical activity is one well-known strategy to support increased resilience. No research has…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Social Work, Caseworkers, Allied Health Personnel
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
Andrea Tirado; Rosalyn Rodriguez – Office of Assessment, Research, and Data Analysis, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, 2025
Title IX of the Every Student Succeeds Act (2015) provides the Department of Education with funds to award grants to enable states and districts to deliver services to families living in unstable housing situations. The Project UP-START Program (Project UP-START) is a District program designed to identify students living in unstable housing and to…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Program Implementation, Homeless People, Grants
