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Download full textColin Hill; Kayla Warner; Colleen Sommo – MDRC, 2025
Obtaining a degree from a community college is a strong pathway to numerous career opportunities for students from low-income backgrounds. Unfortunately, graduation rates from community colleges are often very low, so many students do not reap the benefits of a degree. With the goal of increasing graduation rates, three community colleges in…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Graduation Rate, Acceleration (Education), Models
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Direct linkCameron Sublett; Mary Rauner – Community College Review, 2025
Objective: A growing body of research has examined the relationship between participation in college promise programs (CPP) and student outcomes, including college enrollment, persistence, and completion. However, variation in CPP design limits the extent to which study findings are generalizable. Further, most studies analyze the outcomes of…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Student Financial Aid, Part Time Students, Student Participation
Justin C. Ortagus; Hope Allchin; Benjamin Skinner; Melvin Tanner; Isaac McFarlin – Education Finance and Policy, 2025
Most students who begin at a community college do not complete their desired credential. Many students fail to graduate due to various barriers other than their academic performance. To encourage previously successful non-completers to re-enroll and eventually graduate, a growing number of community colleges have implemented re-enrollment…
Descriptors: Community College Students, College Enrollment, Dropouts, Academic Persistence
Nathan R. Wilson; Jay Brooks; Michelle Dufour; Cecilia Elhaddad; Mitchell Gaffney; Jana Ferguson – Illinois Community College Board, 2025
The Higher Education in Prison (HEP) Act, enacted on January 1, 2024, requires higher education public institutions to collect and report annually specified demographics and select outcomes and correctional facility to the ICCB for students in higher education in prison (HEP) programs. The intent of the reporting requirements is to provide…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Education, Correctional Institutions
Peter Riley Bahr; Yiran Chen; Claire A. Boeck; Paula Clasing-Manquian; Phyllis Cummins – Community College Review, 2025
Objective: Policymakers in many states are endeavoring to increase graduation rates among older community college students. However, we know little about how the factors that influence college completion among older students differ from their younger peers. We aim to identify features of institutional contexts in which adult community college…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Adult Students, Nontraditional Students, Institutional Characteristics
Adela Soliz; Benjamin Rubin – State Higher Education Executive Officers, 2025
Though they have experienced recent enrollment declines, historically, community colleges (i.e. public two-year colleges) have served a larger portion of undergraduates than any other institution type. They also serve a more diverse group of students than other institution types and do this with less funding, on average, than four-year…
Descriptors: Minority Serving Institutions, Community Colleges, Educational Equity (Finance), Outcomes of Education
Perea, Brenda – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2020
This chapter describes the role microcredentials can play within the context of guided pathways and degree completion, illustrated through three case studies of community colleges and systems.
Descriptors: Credentials, Community Colleges, Graduation, Case Studies
Becky Smith – Maine Community College System, 2025
The Maine Community College System provides this letter in accordance with 20-A MRSA §10013. This law requires the Maine Community College System (MCCS), University of Maine System (UMS), and Maine Maritime Academy (MMA) to provide the following information about first-generation college students: (1) Data regarding enrollment of first-generation…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, First Generation College Students, Associate Degrees, Enrollment
Cyrette Saunier; Susan Scrivener; Austin Slaughter; Noor Amanullah; Sukanya Barman; Cynthia Miller; Colleen Sommo; Erick Alonzo, Contributor; Osvaldo Avila, Contributor; Katie Beal, Contributor; Parker Cellura, Contributor; Ben Cohen, Contributor; Stanley Dai, Contributor; Hannah Dalporto, Contributor; Claudia Escobar, Contributor; Colin Hill, Contributor; Marco Lepe, Contributor; Tiffany Morton, Contributor; Rebekah O’Donoghue, Contributor; Vivianna Plancarte, Contributor; Alyssa Ratledge, Contributor; Elena Serna-Wallender, Contributor; Andrea Vasquez, Contributor; Rae Walker, Contributor; Michelle Ware, Contributor; Kayla Warner, Contributor; Melissa Wavelet, Contributor; Michael Weiss, Contributor; Diane Wren, Contributor – MDRC, 2025
Community colleges and broad-access universities (those with minimally selective admissions policies) provide an opportunity for students across the United States to attain postsecondary degrees and achieve economic mobility. However, graduation rates from such colleges are often low and there are many obstacles that can be difficult to…
Descriptors: Intervention, Academic Persistence, Program Development, Costs
Alana Tibbs – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This quantitative study examined non-TRIO participating first-generation college students' graduation rates and the impact of academic and social integration in one community college setting. This study used archival data to analyze tutoring, purchasing a meal plan, and living in campus housing. The study used Tinto's (1993) Model of Student…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Academic Support Services, Community Colleges, Graduation Rate
Anne Elizabeth Hofmann – ProQuest LLC, 2024
"The Laboring Scholar: Community College Geographies and the Politics of Care" is an institutional ethnography that investigates the personal, political, and economic costs to student caregivers seeking a college degree. Through a critical analysis of student interviews and a close examination of community college structures and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Students, Caregivers, College Environment
Bradley Rentz; Sinton Soalablai; Natasha Saelua; Avalloy McCarthy; Jay Watanabe, Translator – Regional Educational Laboratory Pacific, 2024
This is the Palauan translation of the publication, "Teacher Certification, Retention, and Recruitment in Palau: Understanding Graduation Patterns of Teacher Education Students at Palau Community College. Infographic. REL 2025-008." To strengthen teacher preparation in the Republic of Palau, Public Law 10-32 (enacted in 2018) requires…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Certification, Teacher Persistence, Teacher Recruitment
Victoria Ichungwa – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Performance-based funding (PBF) models have become increasingly prevalent in higher education. While designed to improve student outcomes, their effectiveness, particularly at community and technical colleges (CTCs), remains uncertain. Given CTCs' crucial role in providing equitable education, understanding PBF's effectiveness is imperative for…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Funding Formulas, Outcomes of Education, Community Colleges
Tuere Anne Marshall – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The growing number of underprepared students entering two- and four-year colleges and universities is the number one challenge currently facing the field of higher education. According to the American Association of Community Colleges, 41% of all undergraduates and 39% of first-time freshman consider community college their "go-to"…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Educational Strategies, Community Colleges, Success
Anna Marie Buck – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to describe the academic experiences of low socioeconomic status ESL learners enrolled in a mid-sized urban community college located in Pennsylvania. The theory that guided this study is Walberg's theory on educational productivity, as it looks at how learners' psychological…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, English (Second Language), Urban Education, Community Colleges
