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Belfield, Clive – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2020
This paper is the first to investigate the costs of institution-wide reforms at community colleges. Drawing on data from 12 community colleges implementing comprehensive guided pathways reforms, I use the ingredients method to analyze the resources required to implement such reforms and examine their feasibility and affordability, as well as their…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Costs, Educational Change, Change Strategies
Lacefield, Warren E.; Applegate, E. Brooks; Zeller, Pamela J.; Van Kannel-Ray, Nancy; Carpenter, Shelly – Online Submission, 2011
This study describes a well-defined data-driven diagnostic identification and selection procedure for choosing students at-risk of academic failure for appropriate academic support services. This algorithmic procedure has been validated both by historical quantitative studies of student precedents and outcomes as well as by current qualitative…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, At Risk Students, Identification, Information Systems
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Van Kannel-Ray, Nancy; Lacefield, Warren E.; Zeller, Pamela J. – Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation, 2008
For the past eight years, Midwest Educational Research Consortium (MERC), located at Western Michigan University, received two multi-million dollar grants through a U.S. Department of Education program entitled Gaining Early Awareness and Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP). GEAR UP is a school/university partnership using a cohort model with the…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Assignments, Program Effectiveness, Integrated Services