Getting Back on Track: Effects of a Community College Program for Probationary Students

202 Pages Posted: 14 May 2009

Date Written: April 7, 2009

Abstract

Rates of graduation and degree completion at community colleges remain distressingly low. This report evaluates two versions of a program designed to help probationary students at community college succeed in school. One version increased the average number of credits earned, the proportion of students who earned a grade point average of “C” or higher, and the proportion who moved off probation.

Keywords: community colleges, probationary students, retention

Suggested Citation

Scrivener, Susan and Sommo, Colleen and Collado, Herbert, Getting Back on Track: Effects of a Community College Program for Probationary Students (April 7, 2009). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1404808 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1404808

Susan Scrivener (Contact Author)

MDRC ( email )

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Colleen Sommo

MDRC ( email )

200 Vesey Street
10281
United States

Herbert Collado

MDRC ( email )

200 Vesey Street
10281
United States

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