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Outlines the benefits of postsecondary completion for individuals, families, and communities; challenges with completion; and a range of promising strategies to address that community colleges have been implementing to address the varied and complex reasons that keep low-income community college students from graduating.
Reveals the surprisingly decisive role that personal relationships play in determining a student's collegiate success. Describes a set of small, inexpensive interventions that yield substantial improvements in educational outcomes.
Explores the academic and economic consequences of taking higher or lower credit loads. Using student-level data from the Tennessee Board of Regents, it estimates differences in award completion and credit accumulation across students according to their first semester and first-year credit loads.
Compares the California experience of postsecondary attainment to date with that of other states that are demographically similar to California. It offers a set of recommendations that could help the state achieve both workforce readiness and greater equity of opportunity to complete a baccalaureate degree for underrepresented students.
Focuses on documenting the motivations for partnerships between community colleges and immigrant-serving organizations, factors that enable these types of collaborations, and strategies for funding and sustaining partnerships.