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Download full textScrivener, Susan; Weiss, Michael J. – MDRC, 2022
Community colleges provide postsecondary education to millions of students in the United States each year, but their graduation rates are low. Many community colleges have implemented interventions to help students persist in college and earn degrees. MDRC has studied many such interventions; several of them improved students' academic outcomes,…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Community Colleges, Graduation Rate, Academic Persistence
Direct linkCarey, Amy Bragg – Christian Higher Education, 2014
This article describes a qualitative study that involved two small private universities, examining their process of transformation from institutions headed toward closure to institutions that underwent a successful turnaround. The primary questions that guided the study included the issues and circumstances that led to the need for a turnaround,…
Descriptors: Private Colleges, Small Colleges, Success, Finance Reform
Peer reviewedTenHoeve, Thomas, Jr. – Community and Junior College Journal, 1981
Examines national survey results on consideration given to rural colleges in state funding formulas. Reports on various modes of recognition for small size and rural environments. Gives synopsis of funding formulas for 50 states. Concludes that most states do not meet fiscal responsibility for low-cost, two-year postsecondary, rural education.…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Financial Needs, Financial Support, National Surveys
Atwell, Charles A.; Sullins, W. Robert – 1984
A nationwide study was conducted to assess the degree of curricular comprehensiveness in small rural community colleges and to identify funding mechanisms and strategies that affect comprehensiveness. Data were collected on transfer and occupational-technical offerings from 160 public two-year colleges that enrolled fewer than 2,500 headcount…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Community Colleges, Curriculum Research, Educational Finance
Colorado State Board for Community Colleges and Occupational Education, Denver. – 1977
Following an overview of the growth of publicly supported junior colleges in Colorado and corresponding state legislation and policies of the Colorado State Board for Community Colleges and Occupational Education, this paper presents the present position of the Board on issues of student access and the establishment and maintenance of community…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Board of Education Policy, Community Colleges, Declining Enrollment
Hughes, John F.; Smith, Patricia – 1976
A study by the American Council on Education examined the conditions and needs of the private sector of higher education. The policy options outlined here are in four categories. The first category, improving federal-state coordination of policies affecting private institutions, proposes two ideas: a request by the President that each state…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Administrative Policy, College Planning, Educational Finance
