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The State of College Access and Completion: Improving College Success for Students from Underrepresented Groups book cover

1st Edition

The State of College Access and Completion Improving College Success for Students from Underrepresented Groups

Edited By Anthony P. Jones Copyright 2013
256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge
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Despite decades of substantial investments by the federal government, state governments, colleges and universities, and private foundations, students from low-income families as well as racial and ethnic minority groups continue to have substantially lower levels of postsecondary educational attainment than individuals from other groups. The State of College Access and Completion draws together... Read more
  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.

  3. Pathways to College for Underserved and Nontraditional Students: Lessons from Research, Policy, and Practice
    Debra D. Bragg

    4.

  4. Proficiency Approaches for Making More Students College and Career Ready
    David T. Conley

    5.

  5. The Role of Remedial and Developmental Courses in Access and Persistence
    Bridget Terry Long and Angela Boatman

    6.

  6. The Role of Finances in Postsecondary Access and Success
    Donald E. Heller

    7.

  7. The Potential of Community Colleges to Increase Bachelor’s Degree Attainment Rates
    Tatiana Melguizo, Gregory Kienzl, and Holly Kosiewicz

    8.

  8. Longitudinal Pathways to College Persistence and Completion: Student, Institutional, and Public Policy Perspectives
    Donald Hossler, Afet Dundar, and Douglas T. Shapiro

    9.

  9. Access, Persistence, and Completion in the State Context
    James C. Hearn, Anthony P. Jones, and Elizabeth R. Kurban

    10.

  10. Non-Experimental Designs and Causal Analyses of College Access, Persistence, and Completion
    Stephen L. DesJardins and Allyson Flaster

    11.

  11. Conclusions: Improving College Access, Persistence and Completion: Lessons Learned
    Laura W. Perna

Biography

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.

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