Building Transfer Student Pathways for College and Career Success

Transfer College Quality and Student Performance

With escalating tuitions, the return to college quality remains an important consideration for students deciding whether to spend more money for a higher quality college education. This paper examines how students that transfer credit for an introductory-level course perform in a subsequent intermediate-level course. Using rich administrative data we estimate how college quality affects student...

Character College Access , Student Success , and the New Character Education

Over the past several years, there has been a resurgence of interest in—and reconceptualizing of— character education in primary and secondary schools across the United States. An important question, then, is how this new emphasis on character development at the K-12 level impacts the work of university faculty and student affairs professionals. Are graduates of these primary and secondary scho...

Holland’s Theory and Patterns of College Student Success Commissioned Report for the National Symposium on Postsecondary Student Success: Spearheading a Dialog on Student Success

Work in progress - Engineering pathways study: The college-career transition

Research in engineering education has shown that academic programs are often designed based on a projected image of engineering practice. However, this image may be outdated or misaligned with today’s actual professional work. To develop a more complete picture, we designed the Engineering Pathways Study (EPS). EPS extends findings from the NSF-funded Center for the Advancement of Engineering E...

Community College Management Practices That Promote Student Success

There has been surprisingly little rigorous research on institutional effectiveness in community colleges. Even the much larger body of research on institutional effectiveness among baccalaureate-granting institutions in general tells us more about the student characteristics and institutional features (e.g., selectivity, size, resources) associated with positive student outcomes than about the...