Promising and High-Impact Practices: Student Success Programs in the Community College Context

With calls for community colleges to play a greater role in increasing college completion, promising or high-impact practices (HIPs) are receiving attention as means to foster persistence, degree completion, and other desired academic outcomes. These include learning communities, orientation, first-year seminars, and supplemental instruction, among many others. <br /><br />This volume explores the latest research on:<br /> <ul> <li>how student success program research is conceptualized and operationalized,</li> <li>evidence for ways in which interventions foster positive student outcomes,</li> <li>critical inquiry of how students themselves experience them, and</li> <li>challenges and guidance regarding program design, implementation and evaluation.</li> </ul> <br />This is the 175th volume of this Jossey-Bass quarterly report series. Essential to the professional libraries of presidents, vice presidents, deans, and other leaders in today's open-door institutions, <b>New Directions for Community Colleges</b> provides expert guidance in meeting the challenges of their distinctive and expanding educational mission.