3CSN is partnering with the RP Group to offer a workshop that focuses on learning about two successful completion agenda movements.
- Completion by Design: A five-year Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation initiative in which community colleges are developing coherent pathways of study and redesigning the student experience to increase the ability of students to earn certificates and degrees as well as raise their labor market value. The aim of the initiative is to raise community college completion rates for large numbers of students while containing college costs, maintaining open access, and ensuring the quality of college programs and credentials.
Student Support (Re)defined: A three-year study conducted by the RP Group articulating how student support, both inside and outside the classroom, can be delivered in a cost-effective manner so that community colleges can narrow the achievement gap for Latino and African-American students and enable more students to achieve transfer, a degree and/or certificate.
LINKS to articles referred to during the presentation
- What’s Completion Got to Do with It?: Using Course-Taking Behavior to Understand Community College Success
- What’s Completion Got to Do with It?: An Examination of How We Define and Measure Success
- The Bird’s Eye View of Community Colleges: A Behavioral Typology of First-Time Students Based on Cluster Analytic Classification
- A Typology of Students’ Use of the Community College
