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Direct linkBiniam Tesfamariam; Charlotte C. Gullick; Wendy Maragh Taylor; Christopher Bjork; Elizabeth H. Bradley – Community College Review, 2025
Objective: Although most community college students intend to transfer to a 4-year college, few ultimately do. We sought to assess how student experiences of the Exploring Transfer (ET) program influenced transfer rates. The ET program was offered by a private, 4-year liberal arts college. Methods: We used data from a cross-sectional survey of…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community College Students, Transfer of Training, Transfer Policy
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
Stanley Dai; Kayla Warner; Colleen Sommo; Emily Brennan, Contributor; Colin Hill, Contributor; Christine Johnston, Contributor; Rebekah O’Donoghue, Contributor; Michael Weiss, Contributor – MDRC, 2025
In community colleges in the United States, graduation rates remain frustratingly low. Students face many challenges, including the financial costs of attending college; the demands of school, work, and family; complex institutional systems; underfunded student support services; and insufficient preparation for college-level work. To address these…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Community Colleges, Graduation Rate, Paying for College
Dae Y. Kim; Karin Gegenheimer – Research for Action, 2023
In 2015, Tennessee launched Tennessee Promise (TN Promise), one of the most comprehensive and well-funded statewide free-college scholarship programs in the country. To support TN Promise students, and especially those from the lowest-income households, tnAchieves, a key partner facilitating all non-financial components of TN Promise, implemented…
Descriptors: College Programs, Scholarships, State Programs, Outcomes of Education
Judge, Jasmeet; Lannon, Heidi J. L.; Stofer, Kathryn A.; Matyas, Corene J.; Lanman, Brandon; Leissing, J. J.; Rivera, Nicole; Norton, Heather; Hom, Bobby – Journal of STEM Outreach, 2022
Two-year community college (CC) students face many barriers for recruitment and retention into Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) fields and vertical transfer to 4-year universities (4YUs). Experiential learning, mentoring, and cohort building are effective mechanisms for increasing STEM recruitment and retention, and close…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Barriers, STEM Education, Learner Engagement
Charles A. MacArthur; Zoi Traga Philippakos; Henry May – Grantee Submission, 2023
Supporting Strategic Writers (SSW) is an instructional approach and curriculum for college developmental English and integrated reading and writing courses. SSW is based on strategy instruction integrated with practices common in college English. Students learn strategies for writing and critical reading of sources based on rhetorical analysis and…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, English Instruction, Teaching Methods, English Curriculum
Janet Lebeda – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The systemic restructuring of community colleges to better align students on pathways to success (guided pathways) is on the rise. Institutions are transforming their practices and systems on a broad scale to enable students to better succeed. However, many of these initiatives are difficult to implement simultaneously and require planning,…
Descriptors: Program Administration, Educational Change, Program Implementation, Guided Pathways
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
Mike Hoa Nguyen – Review of Higher Education, 2025
This study examines how Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions (AANAPISI) serve Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AA&NHPI) students. Through a two-site case study of a community college on the west coast and a regional comprehensive university on the east coast, this study details the…
Descriptors: Asian American Students, Hawaiians, Indigenous Populations, Pacific Islanders
Daniel Beugnet – Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research, 2025
A raft of research has affirmed the efficacy of undergraduate research (UR) as a best practice for improving student outcomes at community colleges. Yet in spite of these impressive outcomes, UR remains rare at community colleges. A small number of institutions, however, have implemented UR successfully, although few studies have examined how and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Student Research, Community College Students, Community Colleges
Sophie Litschwartz; Dan Cullinan; Vivianna Plancarte – Center for the Analysis of Postsecondary Readiness, 2023
At community colleges and open-enrollment universities, most first-year students take placement exams in English and mathematics to determine whether they are ready for college-level courses. But large-scale studies have indicated that these test scores misplace substantial numbers of students--in other words, for many students, the test score…
Descriptors: Student Placement, Community College Students, Nontraditional Students, Open Universities
Hodara, Michelle; Brey, Libbie; McLennan, Destiny; Riggs, Sam – Education Northwest, 2023
In the past few decades, the cost of college has risen significantly, while federal, state, and institutional financial aid and family income have remained stagnant or declined (Goldrick-Rab, 2018). As a result, many college students struggle to afford the full cost of college attendance and may experience basic needs insecurity, including the…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Student Personnel Services, College Students, Program Effectiveness
Mokher, Christine G.; Park-Gaghan, Toby J.; Hu, Shouping – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2023
Florida's developmental education reform has benefitted most students directly impacted by the reform and has helped to reduce existing achievement gaps by race/ethnicity, English Language Learner status, and academic preparation in short-term outcomes like college course-taking and credit accumulation. Even though the reform was not specifically…
Descriptors: Remedial Instruction, Educational Change, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap
Trevor Brackett – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this phenomenology case study was to examine what motivated formerly incarcerated Black males to complete their community college degree and what best supported them on their educational journey. This study offers in-depth insight into a multifaceted situation and informs community college administrators, state policy and statute…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, African American Education, African American Students, African Americans
Albert Talley Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The problem that was addressed in this qualitative case study was that student retention and graduation rates at community colleges have been affected by the lack of support provided to students during their academic careers. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to gain an understanding of how administrators perceived they were acting in…
Descriptors: Community College Students, School Holding Power, Graduation Rate, College Administration
