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 Community Colleges: Across the United States nearly 1,200 community colleges play a vital role in higher education. They enroll more than 11.5 million students — nearly half of all undergraduates — and they attract high proportions of low-income, minority and first-generation college students. Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count is a national initiative to help more community college students succeed, particularly students of color and low-income students. The initiative works on multiple fronts — including efforts at community colleges and in research, public engagement and public policy — and emphasizes the use of data to drive change. More... |
Returning to Learning: Adults' Success in College is Key to America's Future (PDF), lead author, Brian Pusser of the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education — Read a summary of findings from the Emerging Pathways project, which seeks to identify the diverse needs and characteristics of adult learners, understand patterns of enrollment in credit and non-credit-bearing courses and offer advice to postsecondary institutions and policymakers committed to adult learners' success. (March 2007) Critical Connections: Linking States’ Unit Record Systems to Track Student Progress (PDF), by Peter Ewell and Marianne Boeke, National Center for Higher Education Management Systems — Learn why better student-tracking data would enhance efforts to help college students succeed and fill a critical economic need to increase the number of students who earn college degrees. (January 2007) Paths to Persistence: An Analysis of Research on Program Effectiveness at Community Colleges (PDF), by Thomas R. Bailey and Mariana Alfonso Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University — Learn why an increased commitment to research on community colleges must play a role in strategies to increase student success. (January 2005) Out of print. Available in PDF format only. Powerful Partnerships: Independent Colleges Share High-impact Strategies for Low-income Students' Success (PDF) — Read a volume of essays solicited and chosen by the Council of Independent Colleges illustrating the range of institutional efforts that can influence access and success for low-income students. (October 2004) Fifty Years of College Choice: Social, Political and Institutional Influences on the Decision-making Process (PDF) by Jilian Kinzie, Megan Palmer, John Hayek, Don Hossler, Stacy Jacob and Heather Cummings — Review 50 years of changes in student demographics, admissions practices and shifts in public policies relating to student choice. (September 2004) When Saving Means Losing: Weighing the Benefits of College-savings Plans (PDF) by Roberto M. Ifill and Michael S. McPherson — Learn why federally subsidized college savings plans seldom aid low-income families and may even penalize these families. (July 2004) Unintended Consequences of Tuition Discounting (PDF) by Jerry S. Davis, Lumina Foundation — Find out why tuition discounting — the strategic use of financial aid to lower the sticker price of a college education for designated applicants — may carry unintended, negative consequences for colleges and universities and some low-income students. (May 2003) Meeting the Access Challenge: Indiana's Twenty-first Century Scholars Program (PDF) by Edward P. St. John, Glenda Droogsma Musoba, Ada B. Simmons and Choong-Geun Chung, Indiana Education Policy Center — Examine a program that has been shown to improve postsecondary opportunity for low-income students. (August 2002) Unequal Opportunity: Disparities in College Access Among the 50 States by Samuel M. Kipp III, Derek V. Price, and Jill K. Wohlford — Learn why college opportunity is unequal among states and for students within states, and compare these differences by state. (January 2002) Hope Works: Student Use of Education Tax Credits (PDF) by Barbara A. Hoblitzell and Tiffany L. Smith, University of California, Office of the President — Examine the effectiveness of the Hope and Lifetime Learning tax credits in helping students at a large state university system meet the cost of college. (November 2001) Learning in the Fast Lane: Adult Learners' Persistence and Success in Accelerated College Programs (PDF) by Raymond J. Wlodkowski, Jennifer E. Mauldin and Sandra W. Gahn, the Center for the Study of Accelerated Learning, School for Professional Studies, Regis University — Compare the success rates of adult students in traditional and accelerated college programs. (August 2001) Debts and Decisions: Student Loans and Their Relationship to Graduate School and Career Choice (PDF) by Donald E. Heller, University of Michigan School of Education — Learn how student loan debt affects post-baccalaureate educational and career choices. (June 2001) Funding the ‘Infostructure:’ A Guide to Financing Technology Infrastructure in Higher Education (PDF) by Ronald A. Phipps and Jane V. Wellman, senior associates at the Institute for Higher Education Policy — Learn how campus officials can improve efforts to plan and pay for the infrastructure that makes technology work. (April 2001) New Agenda archives |
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