Postsecondary Student Success Grant Program

Long Beach City College SCAN Program Abstract

OEPID: 00121900

Long Beach City College (LBCC) is the ninth largest college in the California Community 

College System, serving 34,796 students in 2022-23. The College is a minority-majority serving 

institution with Hispanic students representing 50% of the student population. In the 2022-23 

academic year 64% of students were economically disadvantaged and received some form of 

need-based financial aid. The College holds a federal designation as a Hispanic-Serving 

Institution. 

The Success and Completion Achievement Network (SCAN) will create a structured support 

system that allows student who do not enroll in college immediate after high school (indirect 

matriculants/IDMs) to easily navigate College infrastructure and achieve their academic goals. 

This will include the creation of a team of Peer Navigators, other indirect matriculants who will 

act as a point of connection and help participants navigate complex college resources. To support 

persistence, the SCAN program will provide exclusive math and English courses taught by 

professors who have completed additional professional development, including equity-training, 

so that they can complete key foundational courses. Participants will also receive support for 

transfer and completion support from SCAN staff who are trained in academic advising. Finally, 

the program will ensure the creation of a welcoming environment by providing training to 

college members that will educate them on the unique characteristics and needs of indirect 

matriculants, including how to provide culturally-relevant services to students of color. 

SCAN will create a highly supportive framework that leverages the unique characteristics of 

indirect matriculants by utilizing their internal motivation and empowering their ability to selfnavigate, therefore achieving the following long-term goals: 1) Empower IDMs to persist 

through achieving key milestones; 2) Increase LBCC’s capacity to provide an inclusive 

environment that supports student success; 3) Ensure IDMs are prepared to achieve their 

educational goals including completion and transfer; and 4) To provide short- and long-term 

career support that ensure IDMs have stable income and are prepared for the workplace.

The SCAN Program will achieve these goals through its objectives of increasing persistence, the 

number of units accumulated in the first year, the completion rate of transfer level math & 

English in the first year, the number of credentials, awards, and transfers, and the number of 

students placed in internships and jobs. SCAN will also close equity gaps across these objectives. 

Additionally, SCAN will reduce the time to completion. 

This application addresses the Absolute Priority 1 (AP1) - Applications that Demonstrate a 

Rationale, “Early-phase” and the Competitive Preference Priority “Applicants that have made 

progress towards or can demonstrate they have a plan to improve student outcomes for 

underserved students by using data to continually assess and improve the effectiveness of funded 

activities and sustain data-driven continuous improvement processes at the institution after the 

grant period”.