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Scrivener, Susan; Weiss, Michael J. – MDRC, 2022
Community colleges provide postsecondary education to millions of students in the United States each year, but their graduation rates are low. Many community colleges have implemented interventions to help students persist in college and earn degrees. MDRC has studied many such interventions; several of them improved students' academic outcomes,…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Community Colleges, Graduation Rate, Academic Persistence
Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, 2020
Racism exists within communities and within colleges. It is ever-present in the structures that professionals in the California Community Colleges system work within and that students of color must navigate. Striving to achieve equity is not enough and is not possible within the current community college system. Policies, processes, and other…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Racial Bias, Minority Group Students, Equal Education
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Paulsen, Michael B., Ed.; Perna, Laura W., Ed. – Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, 2018
Published annually since 1985, the Handbook series provides a compendium of thorough and integrative literature reviews on a diverse array of topics of interest to the higher education scholarly and policy communities. Each chapter provides a comprehensive review of research findings on a selected topic, critiques the research literature in terms…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Students, College Outcomes Assessment, STEM Education