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Download full textVasquez, Andrea – MDRC, 2020
Millions of students leave college every year before earning a degree. At community colleges, only a third of full-time students graduate within three years. How can school administrators help students stay in school and eventually graduate? Higher education institutions commonly offer students advising services to help them develop the academic…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Program Design, Academic Advising
Vasquez, Andrea; Scrivener, Susan – MDRC, 2020
Colleges support students with advising, counseling, or coaching in academics and other skills they need to succeed in school. Some colleges enhance those services through reduced adviser caseloads and more comprehensive, frequent guidance, which can improve students' semester-to-semester retention and average credits earned. This overview…
Descriptors: Program Design, Academic Advising, Academic Support Services, Community Colleges
Mayer, Alexander; Kalamkarian, Hoori Santikian; Cohen, Benjamin; Pellegrino, Lauren; Boynton, Melissa; Yang, Edith – MDRC, 2019
Integrated Planning and Advising for Student Success (iPASS) is an initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support colleges seeking to incorporate technology into their advising and student services. In iPASS, such technology is intended to increase advising's emphasis on a student's entire college experience, enabling…
Descriptors: Technology Integration, Academic Advising, Academic Support Services, Student Personnel Services
Miller, Cynthia; Cohen, Benjamin; Yang, Edith; Pellegrino, Lauren – MDRC, 2020
College students have a better chance of succeeding in school when they receive high-quality advising. High-quality advising, when characterized by frequent communications between advisers and students, early outreach to students showing signs of academic or nonacademic struggles, and personalized guidance that addresses individual student needs,…
Descriptors: College Students, Academic Advising, Technology Uses in Education, Faculty Advisers
Ratledge, Alyssa – MDRC, 2017
Community college students face many barriers to success. College Promise programs, which now number more than 200, provide financial support to pay local students' tuition and fees. These programs have received bipartisan support from state and municipal policymakers to improve students' "access" to college, putting college financially…
Descriptors: Two Year College Students, Community Colleges, Access to Education, Barriers
Dechausay, Nadine – MDRC, 2018
Executive skills are the cognitive abilities that make it possible for people to set goals, regulate impulses, and complete the steps necessary to achieve their objectives. Examples of these skills include time management, emotional control, and organization. Richard Guare and Peggy Dawson have developed a coaching strategy based on executive…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Cognitive Ability, Coaching (Performance), Behavioral Sciences
