Entering a Program: Helping Students Make Academic and Career Decisions
This literature review examines the evidence on student decision making in the community college, focusing on the activities most relevant to students’ entry into programs of study—academic and career planning.
Student Success Courses and Educational Outcomes at Virginia Community Colleges
Using administrative data from the Virginia Community College System, this paper examines the associations between student success course enrollment and short-term student outcomes.
College 101 Courses for Applied Learning and Student Success
A study of College 101 courses at three community colleges in Virginia suggests that these courses could have long-term impacts if they focused more on the application and practice of learned skills.
The Academic Consequences of Employment for Students Enrolled in Community College
This study examines the effects of student employment on academic outcomes, using a dataset that combines students’ transcripts with earning records from the Unemployment Insurance system.
The Causal Effect of Federal Work-Study Participation
This journal article uses administrative data from West Virginia to provide the first quasi-experimental estimates of the effect of the Federal Work Study (FWS) program.