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Download full textKarp, Melinda Mechur – Community College Research Center, Columbia University, 2011
College success requires more than the ability to master college-level academic skills. Students must learn to navigate an unfamiliar campus, satisfy bureaucratic requirements, meet new expectations (Shields, 2002), and engage in new types of interpersonal relationships (Dickie & Farrell, 1991). Academically vulnerable students--those who are most…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Students, Community Colleges, Commuter Colleges, Academic Achievement
Direct linkAngrist, Joshua; Oreopoulos, Philip; Williams, Tyler – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2010
We evaluate the effects of academic achievement awards for first and second-year college students on a Canadian commuter campus. The award scheme offered linear cash incentives for course grades above 70. Awards were paid every term. Program participants also had access to peer advising by upperclassmen. Program engagement appears to have been…
Descriptors: College Students, Awards, Grade Point Average, Higher Education
