What We Know About Transition Courses
Based on research as well as discussion among researchers, practitioners, and policymakers from seven states, this overview summarizes the state of knowledge on transition courses.
Lessons From the Corridors of College Success Initiative: An Introduction
Collective impact is a place-based model of educational and social intervention that aims to shift responsibility for improvement in outcomes from …
Should Student Employment Be Subsidized? Conditional Counterfactuals and the Outcomes of Work-Study Participation
Using two waves of the Beginning Postsecondary Student survey, this paper provides the first national estimates of the effect of the Federal Work-Study program on students’ academic and labor market outcomes.
Calculating the Costs of Remedial Placement Testing
This publication presents findings on the costs of remedial placement testing at three colleges, and it provides guidance on how other colleges could undertake similar analyses.
Increasing Institutional Capacity to Respond to Performance Funding: What States Can Do
This brief reviews what states can do to support public colleges and universities so they can effectively respond to the new demands placed on them by performance funding policies.
