The state of college access and completion : improving college success for students from underrepresented groups /
Perna, Laura W.
Jones, Anthony.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Improving postsecondary access, persistence, and completion in the United States: setting the stage / Anthony P. Jones -- Improving college access and choice / Laura W. Perna and Elizabeth R. Kurban -- Pathways to college for underserved and nontraditional students: lessons from research, policy, and practice / Debra D. Bragg -- Proficiency approaches for making more students college and career ready / David T. Conley -- The role of remedial and developmental courses in access and persistence / Bridget Terry Long and Angela Boatman -- The role of finances in postsecondary access and success / Donald E. Heller -- The potential of community colleges to increase bachelor's degree attainment rates / Tatiana Melguizo, Gregory Kienzl, and Holly Kosiewicz -- Longitudinal pathways to college persistence and completion: student, institutional, and public policy perspectives / Donald Hossler, Afet Dundar, and Douglas T. Shapiro -- Access, persistence, and completion in the state context / James C. Hearn, Anthony P. Jones, and Elizabeth R. Kurban -- Nonexperimental designs and causal analyses of college access, persistence, and completion / Stephen L. DesJardins and Allyson Flaster -- Conclusions: Improving college access, persistence, and completion: lessons learned / Laura W. Perna.
College choice
Universities and colleges
College costs
Minority college students
Educational attainment