The Educational Effectiveness of HBCUs
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights conducted a briefing on May 5, 2006, to assess the educational effectiveness of HBCUs.
Making the Grade: Improving Degree Attainment at HBCUs
For more than a century, HBCUs have been in the forefront of educating African Americans (as well as increasingly Latinos) and other disadvantaged students, many of whom are the first members of their families to attend college. Often the students More »
Washington Monthly 2010 College Guide and Rankings
Colleges should be judged not just on enrollment and graduation rates but on what students do after they leave, according to this publication. The guide’s alternative ranking system rates colleges and universities on how well they recruit and graduate low-income More »
Synopsis: Top Ten Trends in Enrollment Management
Changing demographics improve the odds for colleges and universities: the pool of college-aged students increased throughout the 1990s, although not all are equally prepared to enter the world of higher education. In response, more and more institutions recognize the need More »
Adult Learners Research - Opening Doors: Expanding Educational Opportunities for Low-Income Workers
Since the passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act in 1996, large numbers of welfare recipients have left welfare for employment. However, much of this employment is low-skilled and provides low pay. It is widely recognized that More »
Synopsis - Early Exit: Understanding Adult Attrition
Little has been done to improve the success rates of adult students, in part because so little reliable information exists about why these students fail to persist and graduate. This paper is one attempt to provide such information. This study More »
A Matter of Degrees: Improving Graduation Rates in Four-Year Colleges and Universities
This report analyzes six-year graduation rates from every degree-granting higher education institution in the United States. It reveals deep problems in the graduation rates at four-year colleges and universities, but finds that some institutions do a much better job graduating More »
Focus: Refuse to Lose
Today’s colleges and universities must work to foster student success. Students who enroll in a four-year residential program right out of high school are no longer the norm — and even many of those who fit this category come to More »
Pew Hispanic Center Report: Latino Youth Finishing College
The gap in the number of Latino and white college students who graduate with a bachelor’s degree is wider even than the substantial differences in high school completion and constitutes the greatest disparity in educational outcomes between the nation’s largest More »
Student Retention and Graduation: Facing the truth, living with the consequences
This paper provides a broad survey of what is known about why students leave college before completing their program of study. It also presents successful strategies for promoting retention and graduation and offers suggestions for federal policy directions to improve More »
