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Download full textWashington Student Achievement Council, 2023
The dataset used in this report was created by combining Bridge to Finish intervention records, provided by the United Way of King County (UWKC), with student information provided by the State Board for Community and Technical Colleges (SBCTC). The intervention records span the terms from summer 2018 through fall 2021. SBCTC data include these…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Programs, Community Colleges, Technical Institutes
Henderson, Brit; Holman, Daron; Lacalli, Emma – Washington Student Achievement Council, 2023
Higher education offers many benefits to individuals and society--including increased employment opportunities and higher wages--and can help disrupt cycles of intergenerational poverty by improving economic outcomes for those who earn postsecondary credentials. Public community and technical colleges offer a relatively affordable, open-access…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Programs, Community Colleges, Technical Institutes
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Direct linkGreer, Christiaan; Chi, Cheng; Hylton-Patterson, Nicole – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2023
This longitudinal study evaluated the efficacy of a summer bridge program (SBP) and other support services on college graduation rates at a small liberal arts school in Purchase, NY. Financially disadvantaged students (n = 136) receiving a scholarship and a summer bridge curriculum within the Manhattanville Achievement Program were compared to…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, College Programs, Graduation Rate, Undergraduate Students
Federal Student Aid, US Department of Education, 2016
This publication is intended for financial aid administrators and counselors who help students begin the aid process--filing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA®), verifying information, and making corrections and other changes to the information reported on the FAFSA. The Federal Student Aid Handbook consists of the Application…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Federal Aid, Student Loan Programs, Grants
Strand, Kerry J. – Council of Independent Colleges, 2013
A baccalaureate degree is essential to success in the contemporary United States. The degree offers improved economic security and the development of capabilities such as critical thinking, effective communication, quantitative reasoning, creativity, problem solving, personal and social responsibility, and social and cultural capital. Failure to…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Academic Achievement, Best Practices, Private Colleges
Tennessee State Board of Education, 2011
The Tennessee General Assembly passed legislation in 2007 requiring that the State Board of Education produce an assessment on the effectiveness of teacher training programs. The law requires that the report includes data on the performance of each program's graduates in the following areas: placement and retention rates, Praxis II results, and…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Teacher Education Programs, Research Reports, State Legislation
Padgett, Ryan D.; Keup, Jennifer R. – National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, 2011
Findings from the ninth triennial administration of the National Survey of First-Year Seminars, describing the nature and extent of first-year seminars on American college campuses. Drawn from a broad sample of colleges and universities from every institutional type, control, and size, the survey addresses topics including seminar characteristics…
Descriptors: National Surveys, First Year Seminars, Research Reports, School Support
Federal Student Aid, US Department of Education, 2012
This publication is intended for financial aid administrators and counselors who help students begin the aid process--filing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), verifying information, and making corrections and other changes to the information reported on the FAFSA. The Federal Student Aid Handbook consists of the Application and…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Federal Aid, Student Loan Programs, Grants
Federal Student Aid, US Department of Education, 2011
This publication is intended for financial aid administrators and counselors who help students begin the aid process--filing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), verifying information, and making corrections and other changes to the information reported on the FAFSA. The Federal Student Aid Handbook consists of the Application and…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Federal Aid, Student Loan Programs, Grants
Ward-Roof, Jeanine A., Ed. – National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, 2010
The 2010 edition of this monograph addresses many topics (e.g., administration of orientation programs, family involvement, student characteristics and needs, assessment, and orientation for specific student populations and institutional types) that were included in previous editions but approaches them with new information, updated data, and…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Guidelines, School Orientation, College Programs
Harrop, Alex; Tattersall, Andy; Cairns, Jennie – Psychology Teaching Review, 2006
A part-time degree programme has been run at the Liverpool John Moores University, formerly Liverpool Polytechnic, for some 20 years without any systematic attempt to evaluate its effects on students. An evaluation was begun by focusing on graduates of the programme who entered between 1992 and 1994 and continued with recent part-time students.…
Descriptors: Psychology, College Programs, Bachelors Degrees, Program Evaluation
Cooney, David T. – 1974
The purposes of this study were to: (1) determine the essential elements of foreign student programs as they now exist in Florida community colleges; (2) identify and compare the essential elements of an effective foreign student program as perceived by community college presidents, members of boards of trustees, and foreign student advisors; (3)…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Attitudes, College Programs, Community Colleges
Heist, Paul; Taylor, Maxwell F. – 1979
Information on the Colorado College Plan, students and faculty at Colorado College, and reactions to the Colorado College Plan is presented. The plan is a revised curricular program, a main feature of which is the division of the academic year into nine blocks. Students take one course per block, faculty members teach a single course, and varied…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Faculty, College Programs, College Students
American Association of Physics Teachers (NJ1), 2005
Influenced by the project entitled "Strategic Programs for Innovations in Undergraduate Physics", this document is intended to guide a physics department in initial, or mid-stream evaluation of a program of undergraduate physics education. The original Guidelines were developed by the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) in 1986. The…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Physics, College Science, Undergraduate Study
Thompson, Hugh L. – 1986
The evaluation of academic programs at colleges and universities is discussed by the Chancellor of Indiana University of Kokomo. A comprehensive programmatic review and planning process should enable the college to define clearly its purposes, goals, objectives, and priorities and to outline its strategies for achieving its goals and objectives.…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, College Planning, College Programs, College Role
