Publications

This paper uses a quasi-experimental approach to identify causal effects of West Virginia's PROMISE scholarship program, which offers free tuition to students who maintain a minimum GPA and course load.

Effective nonacademic supports work by creating social relationships, clarifying goals and enhancing commitment, developing college know-how, and addressing conflicting demands on students.

This paper examines the influence of validation by faculty on students' sense of integration in college and intent to persist.

The eligibility of undocumented students to apply for in-state tuition varies by state. This article analyzes the political origins of divergent responses among states, drawing on the advocacy coalition framework and policy entrepreneurship theory of policymaking.

This paper examines whether Tinto's integration framework—commonly used to examine student persistence in the four-year sector—is applicable to two-year institutions.

In this journal article, the authors examine how student success courses help students develop relationships that provide support and useful information long after the class is over.

This article explores the ways that information networks are related to student persistence in the community college and how institutional structures can encourage such networks.

This paper reviews the research literature on the effectiveness of financial aid, with special attention to its implications for policy.

This study examines the ways that student support services in community colleges inadvertently perpetuate and legitimate disadvantage.

This brief reports the findings from a CCRC study on the effectiveness of student success courses at Florida community colleges.