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Download full textFink, John; Jenkins, Davis – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2020
This guide presents examples and instructions for data analyses colleges can conduct to better understand student enrollments and completions in particular programs. Such analyses can help colleges scrutinize representation of historically marginalized groups in programs leading to greater opportunity after graduation. There is an equity…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Enrollment, Graduation, College Programs
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Direct linkJenkins, Davis – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2015
This article presents three lessons from research by the Community College Research Center (CCRC) on strategies community colleges can use to improve completion rates while maintaining broad access and keeping costs low for students and taxpayers. I also identify two sets of data pointing to the potential returns to students and society that could…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Paying for College, Student Costs
Jenkins, Davis; Jaggars, Shanna Smith; Roksa, Josipa – Community College Research Center, Columbia University, 2009
This report summarizes key findings and recommendations from a Community College Research Center (CCRC) study designed to help community colleges develop strategies for improving the rate at which academically underprepared students take and pass initial college-level (or "gatekeeper") courses in math and English. CCRC conducted the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Probability, Remedial Instruction, Student Characteristics
Bailey, Thomas; Jenkins, Davis; Leinbach, D. Timothy – Community College Research Center, Columbia University, 2007
This brief summarizes a Community College Research Center (CCRC) study on the extent to which community college students' educational goals and reasons for enrolling influence their outcomes. Based on the findings, the brief presents suggestions for how colleges should approach student goals and aspirations in seeking to improve student success.…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Graduation, Goal Orientation, College Students
Calcagno, Juan Carlos; Crosta, Peter; Bailey, Thomas; Jenkins, Davis – Community College Research Center, Columbia University, 2006
This Brief reports on a new study that begins to fill this research gap. Using longitudinal unit record transcript data on a cohort of first-time community college students in Florida, the study sought to determine whether remedial pathways, such as enrolling in a developmental math course, and enrollment milestones, such as completing a certain…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Nontraditional Students, Two Year College Students, Longitudinal Studies
Calcagno, Juan Carlos; Crosta, Peter; Bailey, Thomas; Jenkins, Davis – Community College Research Center, Columbia University, 2006
This paper presents findings from a study of the experiences and outcomes of older and younger community college students. We developed a discrete-time hazard model using longitudinal transcript data on a cohort of first-time community college students in Florida to compare the impact of enrollment pathways (such as remediation) and enrollment…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Nontraditional Students, Two Year College Students, Longitudinal Studies
