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Direct linkAndrea B. Burridge; Lyle McKinney; Gerald V. Bourdeau; Mimi M. Lee; Yolanda M. Barnes – Journal of Higher Education, 2024
Establishing early academic momentum via credit accumulation is strongly associated with community college student success. Using data from one of the nation's largest and most racially diverse community college systems, our quasi-experimental study examined how different first-semester credit loads influenced persistence. For part-time students…
Descriptors: Part Time Students, Community College Students, College Credits, Student Diversity
Download full textScrivener, 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
