The Aid Like A Paycheck student survey was designed to shed light on students' academic and financial attitudes, behaviors, and circumstances over the course of a semester. This supplement to MDRC's final report on Aid Like A Paycheck describes the survey, response rates, and responses to each survey item at three community college systems: two in…

Public perceptions of college students and their needs have not evolved. Likewise, embedded in the minds of policymakers is a traditional picture of higher education's mission as largely focused on teaching and learning. To some extent, this is true for college staff, as well. As a result, shifting the paradigms around social, economic, and…

In 1990, surveys were sent to all 107 California community colleges to gather information on the status of job placement services for students attending the colleges. Survey results, based on a 60% response rate (n=64), included the following: (1) 62% of the colleges indicated that they had documented student job placements in some fashion, with…