Community colleges are a crucial channel for achieving postsecondary education success, especially for minority and nontraditionally aged students. Nonetheless, community colleges are inadequate to meeting national goals for postsecondary educational attainment. Most notably, the lack of a strong guidance of academic interventions stifles a…

For this study, we examined the relationship between counseling experience and college students' academic performance and retention in a sample of 10,009 college freshmen and transfer students. The results indicated that counseling experience is significantly associated with student retention: students receiving counseling services were more…

In the case of success-failure predictions, approximately 75 percent of those predicted to succeed did and 51 percent of those predicted to fail failed. (Editor)

The major purpose of this investigation is to identify the extent to which selected motivational, aptitude, interest, and attitudinal criteria predict academic success in social science courses for transfer and occupational-technical community college students. (Author)

This study examined the transfer trends for, and significant differences between, transfer students who graduated from community college career-oriented programs and students who graduated from liberal arts programs and looked at possible factors which affect these trends and differences. The results indicated students who made better grades in…