The State of College Access and Completion

Improving College Success for Students from Underrepresented Groups
Herausgeber: Perna, Laura W; Jones, Anthony

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The State of College Access and Completion draws together the leading researchers nationwide to summarize the state of college access and success for students and provide recommendations for how institutional leaders and policymakers can effectively improve the entire spectrum of college access and completion.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780415660464
• ISBN-10: 0415660467
• Artikelnr.: 37254180

Autorenporträt

Laura W. Perna is Professor in the Graduate School of Education and Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Urban Research at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. Anthony P. Jones is Director of Policy Research for the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance in Washington, DC.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Improving Postsecondary Access, Persistence, and
Completion in the United States: Setting the Stage
Anthony P. Jones
2. Improving College Access and Choice
Laura W. Perna and Elizabeth R. Kurban
3. Pathways to College for Underserved and Nontraditional Students:
Lessons from Research, Policy, and Practice
Debra D. Bragg
4. Proficiency Approaches for Making More Students College and Career
Ready
David T. Conley
5. The Role of Remedial and Developmental Courses in Access and
Persistence
Bridget Terry Long and Angela Boatman
6. The Role of Finances in Postsecondary Access and Success
Donald E. Heller
7. The Potential of Community Colleges to Increase Bachelor's Degree
Attainment Rates
Tatiana Melguizo, Gregory Kienzl, and Holly Kosiewicz
8. Longitudinal Pathways to College Persistence and Completion: Student,
Institutional, and Public Policy Perspectives
Donald Hossler, Afet Dundar, and Douglas T. Shapiro
9. Access, Persistence, and Completion in the State Context
James C. Hearn, Anthony P. Jones, and Elizabeth R. Kurban
10. Non-Experimental Designs and Causal Analyses of College Access,
Persistence, and Completion
Stephen L. DesJardins and Allyson Flaster
11. Conclusions: Improving College Access, Persistence and Completion:
Lessons Learned
Laura W. Perna