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Download full textJudith Scott-Clayton; Irwin Garfinkel; Elizabeth Ananat; Sophie Collyer; Robert Paul Hartley; Anastasia Koutavas; Buyi Wang; Christopher Wimer – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2025
In 2015, the City University of New York (CUNY) launched a new program--Accelerate, Complete, and Engage (ACE)--aimed at improving college graduation rates. A randomized-control evaluation of the program found a nearly 12 percentage point increase in graduation five years after college entry. Using this impact estimate and national data on…
Descriptors: Bachelors Degrees, Graduation Rate, Intervention, Outcomes of Education
Person, Ann E.; Bruch, Julie; Goble, Lisbeth – Mathematica, 2019
There is a growing movement across the country to get more adults to enroll in college and complete higher education programs. Fewer than half of the nearly 170 million U.S. residents between the ages of 25 and 64 have obtained a postsecondary degree or certificate. The statistics for adult students of color who have attained higher education are…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Students, Adult Students, Higher Education, Postsecondary Education
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Direct linkBettinger, Eric P.; Baker, Rachel B. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2014
College graduation rates often lag behind college attendance rates. One theory as to why students do not complete college is that they lack key information about how to be successful or fail to act on the information that they have. We present evidence from a randomized experiment which tests the effectiveness of individualized student coaching.…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), College Students, Nontraditional Students, Goal Orientation
Walters, Nancy; DeSalvo, Alaina; Shafer, Shakiya – Minnesota Office of Higher Education, 2017
Minnesota's Intervention for College Attendance Program (ICAP) is a program of competitive grants awarded to postsecondary institutions, professional organizations and community-based organizations. Funded programs focus on increasing the access and success of groups traditionally underrepresented in higher education by strengthening their…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Intervention, College Preparation, Enrichment Activities
Gard, Dwight R.; Paton, Valerie; Gosselin, Kevin – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2012
The transfer process includes areas such as academic preparation and advisement, transfer evaluation, financial aid, and psychosocial factors. A descriptive, exploratory method was employed to capture the perceptions of a transfer student cohort regarding their experiences in transitioning from lower division community college enrollment to…
Descriptors: College Transfer Students, Student Attitudes, Focus Groups, Academic Advising
Walters, Nancy; Mixon, Joel D.; Oliver, Nekey – Minnesota Office of Higher Education, 2015
Minnesota's Intervention for College Attendance Program (ICAP) is a program of competitive grants awarded to postsecondary institutions, professional organizations and community-based organizations. Funded programs focus on increasing the access and success of groups traditionally underrepresented in higher education by strengthening their…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Intervention, College Preparation, Enrichment Activities
Djurovich, Alexandra; Grimes, Tricia; Rayburn, Jack; Fergus, Meredith; Lydell, Lesley – Minnesota Office of Higher Education, 2011
The 2011 edition of "Minnesota Measures: Report on Higher Education Performance" reflects a new approach to reporting on the effectiveness of postsecondary education within the state. The report covers key measures of postsecondary effectiveness as in the previous three editions of the report but is grounded in the students' experience…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Loan Default, Program Effectiveness, Trend Analysis
Walters, Nancy; Williams-Wyche, Shaun – Minnesota Office of Higher Education, 2013
Minnesota's Intervention for College Attendance Program (ICAP) is a program of competitive grants awarded to postsecondary institutions, professional organizations and community-based organizations. Funded programs focus on increasing the access and success of groups traditionally underrepresented in higher education by strengthening their…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Intervention, College Preparation, Enrichment Activities
Saltiel, Henry – ProQuest LLC, 2011
A quasi-experiment using quantitative methods was conducted to examine the effects on academic student outcomes when a cohort of employed low-SES community college commuter students (the treatment group, N=198) participated in a comprehensive support and access intervention program, compared with similar students (the matched comparison group,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Urban Schools, School Holding Power, Graduation Rate
Walters, Nancy; Ayodele, Alicia – Minnesota Office of Higher Education, 2011
This report provides information on the outcomes of the Intervention for College Attendance Program, a program of competitive grants awarded to postsecondary institutions, professional organizations and community-based organizations. Funded programs focus on increasing the access and success of groups traditionally underrepresented in higher…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Intervention, College Preparation, Enrichment Activities
Austin, Sandra A. – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2007
This qualitative report examines a successful public university program funded by the Avon Foundation to provide scholarship and support services to non-traditional female community college transfer students. Female commuter transfer students often manage multiple roles of parent, student, and employee while attending college. This article…
Descriptors: College Transfer Students, Females, Partnerships in Education, Universities
Walters, Nancy – Minnesota Office of Higher Education, 2009
The purpose of this report is to provide information on the outcomes of the Intervention for College Attendance Program, a program of competitive grants awarded to postsecondary institutions, professional organizations, and community-based organizations. Prior to the 2008-09 biennium, the program focused on provision of college awareness and the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, High Schools, Intervention, Educational Finance
American Coll. Testing Program, Iowa City, IA. National Center for the Advancement of Educational Practices. – 1983
A catalog of 205 descriptions of college programs to recruit and retain adult learners is presented, based on a national survey, "Attracting and Retaining Adult Learners" (ARAL), conducted in 1980 by the American College Testing Program. In addition to a brief program description, each program form provides information on the type of program, the…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Academic Persistence, Adult Students, Ancillary School Services
Levitz, Randi S.; Noel, Lee – 1980
Results of a national survey, "Attracting and Retaining Adult Learners" (ARAL), by the American College Testing Program are summarized. Attention is focused on programs and services that have been successful with adult learners. ARAL respondents were from three types of institutions: (1) those for whom adult learners represent a primary thrust of…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Academic Persistence, Adult Students, Ancillary School Services
Adolphus, Stephen; And Others – 1979
This paper addresses developmental education programs as mechanisms for enhancing the survival rates of disadvantaged populations in higher education. Specifically, the paper identifies and discusses the critical dimensions of effective developmental education programs, including recruitment, admissions, diagnosis and prescription, orientation,…
Descriptors: College Admission, Counseling Services, Developmental Studies Programs, Diagnostic Teaching
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