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Bickerstaff, Susan; Barnett, Elisabeth A.; Lopez Salazar, Andrea – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2021
Despite research pointing to the crucial role nonacademic staff play in student success in higher education, large-scale reform efforts at community colleges and elsewhere typically focus little direct attention on interpersonal interactions between students and staff. Caring Campus is a program developed and administered by the Institute for…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, School Personnel, Interaction
Gonzalez Quiroz, Alicia; Garza, Nora R. – Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 2018
Using research focused on best practices, focus group information, and data analytics, the Title V: Focus on Student Success (FOSS) Grant created a model for the development, implementation, and evaluation of a summer bridge program. Results included increased academic performance indicators in first-year Hispanic college students. Validation for…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Success, Best Practices, Focus Groups
Achieving the Dream, 2015
Community colleges are the pathways for millions of Americans to gain valuable education and to access career opportunities leading to family-sustaining wages. Faculty, student services staff, and administrators must share in the responsibility for student success if we are to meet national completion goals and reach even more students. During a…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, College Faculty, Learner Engagement
Gonzalez Quiroz, Alicia; Garza, Nora – American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education, 2017
Summer bridge programs support post-secondary success by providing intensive, short-term academic and social resources while introducing college expectations and the cultural contexts of the institution. They typically are offered in the summer between high school graduation and the first term of college and vary in content, program size and…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Success, Best Practices, Focus Groups
Jenkins, Davis; Cho, Sung-Woo – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2013
In this chapter, we describe efforts by growing number of colleges and universities to redesign academic programs and support services to create "guided pathways" designed to increase the rate at which students enter and complete a program of study.
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Student Personnel Services, Academic Persistence
Perez, Pedro – 1999
The purpose of this study was to develop a mentor program for Latino students in the College Discovery Program at Borough of Manhattan Community College. The mentor program was intended to address some of the needs experienced by Latino students and to improve retention rates. This paper describes the process involved in developing the mentor…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Community Colleges, Counseling, Hispanic Americans
Howard, R. Keith; Tully, Richard B. – 1993
The Indiana Vocational Technical College (IVTC) is a state-supported two-year college with 22 campuses across Indiana. In January 1992, as part of a college-wide effort to improve institutional effectiveness, an eight-member Retention Committee (RC) was established, consisting of executive and instructional deans; directors of student services;…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Planning, Committees, Dropout Prevention
Hisada, Paul – 1988
Arguing that retention research requires a sound theoretical framework and that retention planning takes place within a sociopolitical context, this paper presents an overview of the requirements and process of student retention research. Part I examines the role of research in a college's retention effort and establishes the general requirements…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Community Colleges, Data Collection, Databases
Hendrick, Larry – 1980
Recommendations and guidelines are presented for the educational diagnosis of students entering the Los Rios Community College District. The paper first underscores the need for a diagnostic process to help students assess their potential for academic success, and then recommends: (1) the assessment of past academic and work experience, basic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Academic Persistence, Basic Skills

Rudmann, Jerry – 1992
An overview of the development and evaluation of an early alert procedure for identifying and assisting students experiencing academic difficulty at Irvine Valley College (IVC), in California, is provided in this report. The first section introduces IVC's new personal computer-based Early Alert Retention System (EARS) software, as well as the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, College Freshmen, Computer Oriented Programs
Duncan, Roberto – 1985
Drawing from a review of the literature on issues related to student retention and attrition, and research on student attitudes toward the Community College of Denver (CCD), this report suggests four models for student retention programs for different two-year college student groups. Following introductory material on the project, a literature…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Adult Students, College Attendance, College Freshmen
Price, Linda A. – 1993
In an effort to develop early intervention strategies to increase student persistence, a study was conducted at Allegany Community College (ACC) in Cumberland, Maryland, of the common characteristics of withdrawing students. Student records were examined for the 84 students (out of a total of 2,999 enrolled) who withdrew in the first 3 weeks of…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Community Colleges, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Research
California Community Colleges, Sacramento. Academic Senate. – 1993
In 1992, the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges (CCC) adopted the Student Equity Policy requiring all districts in the community college system to develop a Student Equity Plan (SEP) to ensure that the composition of students who enroll, are retained, transfer, or achieve their occupational goals in the CCC reflects the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, College Planning, Community Colleges
California Community Colleges, Sacramento. Academic Senate. – 1993
Developed for local faculty senates and individual faculty members in the California Community Colleges (CCC), this report provides suggestions, strategies, and tips for undertaking faculty mentoring efforts aimed at increasing the persistence and transfer of underrepresented students in the CCC. Following an introduction and brief discussion of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Change Strategies, College Transfer Students