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Coach Knows Best
By Paul Fain
The outsourcing of student coaching and advising appears to be less controversial than it was when InsideTrack, a private company that provides coaches via phone, arrived on the scene in 2001.
For one thing, colleges are feeling plenty of pressure to step up their game in getting students to graduation. That probably makes it harder to criticize their use of outside help on coaching. And some college leaders argue that InsideTrack’s brand of advising is simply better than what they can do in-house.
“We have to focus on our core competencies,” said Barbara Karlin, vice president… Continue reading
Most transfers earn 4-year degree
By Joanne Jacobs
Sixty percent of community college transfer students earn a bachelor’s degree within four years and another 12 percent were enrolled but hadn’t graduated, according to a new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Graduation rates are significantly higher for transfers with an associate degree: 71 percent earn a bachelor’s within four years and another 9 percent are still trying.
Read more: communitycollegespotlight.org
California’s community college crawl
By Joanne Jacobs
Time is the enemy of college completion, warns Complete College America. The longer the path to a degree, the less likely students are to make it. In California, thousands of community college students are taking one class per semester and many more are taking fewer classes than they want, reports the Los Angeles Times.
Read more: communitycollegespotlight.org
Audio: Shaping two-year colleges to better suit adult learners
John Cech
Deputy Commissioner for Two-Year and Community College Education
Montana University System
The following interview is conducted with John Cech, the Deputy Commissioner for Two-Year and Community College Education with the Montana University System. The last time Cech spoke to The EvoLLLution, the state of Montana was developing a strategic overhaul of its college system. Montana is now re-naming all of its two-year Colleges and changing them to make them better suited to non-traditional, adult students. In this interview, Cech discusses how those changes are being implemented and some of the challenges and lessons that have… Continue reading
Student Voices on Community College Completion
For many young Americans, community college represents one of the few remaining pathways to the American Dream—in fact, community colleges serve nearly half of the nation’s undergraduate population. Yet less than half of the country’s community college students graduate or transfer within 6 years.
As part of The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Postsecondary Success Initiative, Completion By Design, Public Agenda, in partnership with WestEd, spoke to current and former community college students in a series of focus groups in March 2012, to listen to what… Continue reading
