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What Works Clearinghouse, 2019
This What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) report, part of the WWC's Supporting Postsecondary Success topic area, explores the effects of "Accelerated Study in Associate Programs (ASAP)" on enrollment, credit accumulation, and graduation rates. The WWC identified 11 studies of "ASAP," and two studies meet WWC standards. The evidence…
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, College Programs, Program Effectiveness, Enrollment
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Enrolling in college and completing a degree or certificate is one of the primary pathways to economic success. In 2017, median weekly earnings of full-time workers with an associate degree was 17 percent higher than full-time workers with a high school diploma only. Despite the economic advantages of educational attainment, only 32 percent of…
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, College Programs, Program Effectiveness, Enrollment
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2019
This What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) report, part of the WWC's Supporting Postsecondary Success topic area, explores the effects of "Accelerated Study in Associate Programs (ASAP)" on enrollment, credit accumulation, and graduation rates. The WWC identified 11 studies of "ASAP," two of which met WWC standards. The evidence…
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, College Programs, Program Effectiveness, Enrollment
Jaggers, Shanna Smith; Fay, Maggie P.; Farakish, Negar – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2019
In fall 2012, a public-minded privately held firm, Quad Learning (QL), partnered with two community colleges to pilot a new program dubbed "American Honors" (AH), which was designed to help academically talented community college students overcome the challenges of transferring to more selective four-year destinations. By fall 2018, QL…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Community Colleges, School Business Relationship, Two Year College Students
Henderson, Cecial Nicole – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Remediation has become one of the greatest barriers to student success and disproportionately affects the persistence and retention rates of African American community college students. Nearly 70% of the African American students at community colleges required remediation, which results in low persistence and graduation rates for these students.…
Descriptors: African American Students, Phenomenology, Two Year College Students, Student Placement