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Personality-College Major Match and Student Success A Guide for Professionals Helping Youth and Adults Who are in College or are College-Bound

 

Personality-College Major Match and Student Success

A Guide for Professionals Helping Youth and Adults Who are in College or are College-Bound

Top Ten Higher Education State Policy Issues for 2012

This policy brief, written by the state relations and policy analysis staff at the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU), presents several public higher education issues likely to spur discussion and result in action. Based on the writers' scan of current state policy activities, trends and events, this report provides a discussion of 10 policy issues believed to shape the 2012 policy landscape.

Second-Generation Hispanic Women Enroll in College at Same Rate as Third-Generation White Women But Lag in Completion

A new study by the Migration Policy Institute's National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy examines the college enrollment and completion rates of young adults in the United States (ages 16-26) who are of immigrant origin (either they themselves are immigrants or are the U.S.-born children of immigrants.)

Determinants of Students' Success: The Role of Advanced Placement and Dual Enrollment Programs

Using data from two cohorts of all high school students in Florida and controlling for schools' and students' characteristics (including prior achievement), this study examines the relative power of AP and DE in predicting students' college access and success. The study finds that both AP and DE are strongly associated with positive outcomes, but the enrollment outcomes are not the same for both programs. DE students are more likely than AP students to go to college after high school, but they are less likely to first enroll in a four-year college.

High School Dual Enrollment Programs: Are We Fast-Tracking Students Too Fast?

Despite the popularity of dual enrollment (DE) as a strategy for preparing high school students for college, little rigorous evidence exists on its effectiveness. This paper uses a regression discontinuity design to gauge the causal effect of DE on rates of high school graduation, college enrollment, and college completion among students who are on the margin of eligibility for DE participation.

A Recent DEI Survey Reveals Sharing and Collaboration Needs

The Institute for Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME) recently conducted a survey to look see how Developmental Education Initiative (DEI) projects want to share and collaborate. Specifically, the survey asked participants to reflect on how their DEI communities integrate resources, tools and collaborative opportunities available to them on CompletionMatters.org, and how we at ISKME might best support the college completion agendas of our member organizations.

Beating the Odds: What it Means and Why It's Important

"In the fall of 2010, HCM Strategists and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation commenced a series of conversations among institutional leaders dedicated to “Beating the Odds”
and increasing the rate of success for students traditionally underrepresented in higher education: low-income, minority, first-generation, and adult students." Click here to read more about the thirty 2-year and 4-year college and  university leaders, and what their schools -- and students -- are doing to "beat the odds."

Kentucky Community and Technical College System Selects Blackboard Student Services to Improve Retention

The Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS) has announced a new initiative to work with Blackboard to redesign its process for delivering services and support to students.

Investing in Completion

On June 23, Student Parent Success Initiative presented on the needs of student parents along with Women Employed (Chicago, Illinois) at the Student Parent Success Symposium, hosted by Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. Topics included child care, financial aid, examples of promising programs, and the need to bundle services and information so that parents can more easily access the resources they need to succeed in college. This is a Powerpoint by Kevin Miller, one of the presenters.

DEI Action Collab Learning Community Idea "More to Most"

How can postsecondary education leaders, specifically those at community colleges working in the area of developmental education, share and build on what they know to scale and sustain change that impacts student success?

ISKME's Action Collab session, part of the CompletionMatters.org project, took place at the Development Education Initiative (DEI) Program Directors Summer Institute in Durham, NC in June 2011. Aimed at supporting innovation and collaboration, the Action Collab was a 3-hour design and prototyping challenge.

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