More Guidance, Better Results? Three-Year Effects of an Enhanced Student Services Program at Two Community Colleges

New York: MDRC, August 2009

169 Pages Posted: 29 Aug 2010

Date Written: August 1, 2009

Abstract

In this program, low-income students received enhanced student services and were eligible for a modest stipend for two semesters. The program improved academic outcomes in the second semester and registration in the semester after that, but these effects did not persist in subsequent semesters.

Keywords: evaluation, community college, student services

Suggested Citation

Scrivener, Susan and Weiss, Michael J., More Guidance, Better Results? Three-Year Effects of an Enhanced Student Services Program at Two Community Colleges (August 1, 2009). New York: MDRC, August 2009, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1666992

Susan Scrivener (Contact Author)

MDRC ( email )

200 Vesey Street
New York, NY 10281
United States

Michael J. Weiss

MDRC ( email )

200 Vesey Street
10281
United States

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