Challenges and Opportunities for Improving Community College Student Success

By Sara Goldrick-Rab. 2010

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The Role of Faculty, Counselors, and Support Programs on Latino/a Community College Students’ Success and Intent to Persist (2015, methodology): “…students, and given limitations in the dataset, this study utilized broad conceptualizations of “successful” student outcomes (Bers & Smith, 1991; Goldrick-Rab, 2010; Núñez et al., 2013), better known in the literature as intermediate outcomes, which include academic performance as measured by…”
"They Never Told Me What to Expect, So I Didn't Know What to Do": Defining and Clarifying the Role of a Community College Student (2012, background): “Community college students are also disproportionately part-time and older students who have other demands on their time, such as substantial work or family obligations (Aud et al., 2011; Goldrick-Rab, 2010); these factors create additional challenges to completion beyond academic preparation.”
The Effects of Student Coaching (2014, background): “Research has found that many community college students have little knowledge of course requirements and are unsure if their courses will meet requirement needs (Goldrick-Rab, 2010).”
Reducing Income Inequality in Educational Attainment: Experimental Evidence on the Impact of Financial Aid on College Completion1 (2016, background): “…common among racial/ethnic minorities, students who are the first in their family to attend college, and those who worry that they are underprepared for the college experience ðCharles et al. 2009; Espenshade and Radford 2009; Goldrick-Rab 2010; Schudde 2013; Wilkins 2014; Kirst and Stevens 2015Þ.”
Deconstructing disengagement: analyzing learner subpopulations in massive open online courses (2013, background): “To copy otherwise, to republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior speci.c permission and/or a fee.”
Attrition and Achievement Gaps in Online Learning (2015, unknown): “2724680 students [8].”
Improving College Access in the United States: Barriers and Policy Responses (2015, unknown): “…and college counseling are not equally available at all high schools: lowincome and minority students have both fewer opportunities to obtain the academic preparation required for college and less “college knowledge” regarding what is expected in the first place (see review by Goldrick-Rab, 2010).”
Deconstructing Remediation in Community Colleges: Exploring Associations Between Course-Taking Patterns, Course Outcomes, and Attrition from the Remedial Math and Remedial Writing Sequences (2012, unknown): “However, given the frequency and prevalence of ‘‘stop outs’’ among community college students (Goldrick-Rab 2010; Stratton et al. 2008), it is less useful when one seeks to understand the relationship between delays and the structural barrier of the time required to achieve college-level competency.”
Psychosocial Factors and Community College Student Success (2017, background): “In fact, compared to their 4-year college student counterparts, community college students are more likely to be firstgeneration (36%; 4-year: 25%), non-White (50%; 4-year: 33%), and lowincome (Berkner & Choy, 2008; Goldrick-Rab, 2010; Juszkiewicz, 2015).”
Factors Contributing to the Upward Transfer of Baccalaureate Aspirants Beginning at Community Colleges (2010, background): “Since part-time students may face competing demands with work or family or may be unable to afford full-time enrollment (Goldrick-Rab, 2010), it is more important to offer a wider choice of courses and more flexibility in scheduling for students who might be otherwise constrained by external…”