Complete College America

Resources & Reports

Here you can find links to publications addressing the four key policy areas, as well as other topics relevant to increasing college completion rates.

The resources have been divided into the following areas: 

Resources from CCA Events:


CCA ORIGINAL MATERIALS

 

PERFORMANCE FUNDING

Opportunity Adrift: Our Flagship Universities are Straying from their Public Mission
Kati Haycock, Mary Lynch & Jennifer Engle, The Education Trust (January 2010).

Setting Up Success in Developmental Education: How State Policy Can Help Community Colleges Improve Student Success Outcomes
Michael Lawrence Collins, Jobs for the Future (2009).

Calculating Cost-Return for Investments in Student Success
The Delta Cost Project and Jobs for the Future (December 2009).

Trends in College Spending: Where does the money come from? Where does it go?
The Delta Cost Project (January 2009).

 

TIME TO DEGREE

Three Policies to Reduce Time to Degree; Resource Kit
Nate Johnson, HCM Strategists, for Complete College America (February 2011).

A Working Model for Student Success: The Tennessee Technology Centers
John Hoops, FutureWorks, for Complete College America (June 2010)

 

GATEWAY COURSE SUCCESS

New Developmental Mathematics Program at the University of Maryland, College Park
William W. Adams, Professor Emeritus in Mathematics at the University of Maryland, College Park 

Rethinking Developmental Education in Community College
Thomas Bailey, Community College Research Center, CCRC Brief No. 40 (February 2009).

Promoting Gatekeeper Course Success Among Community College Students Needing Remediation: Findings and Recommendations from a Virginia Study (Summary Report)
Davis Jenkins, Shanna Smith Jaggars & Josipa Roksa, Community College Research Center (2009).

Setting Up Success in Developmental Education: How State Policy Can Help Community Colleges Improve Student Success Outcomes
Michael Lawrence Collins, Jobs for the Future (2009).

Improving Student Success by Strengthening Developmental Education in Community Colleges: The Role of State Policy
Derek V. Price and Brandon Roberts, The Working Poor Families Project (Winter 2008-09).


CCA 2012 ANNUAL CONVENING: "Building Guided Pathways for States and Students"
December 13-14, 2012; New Orleans

GATEWAY COURSE SUCCESS INSTITUTES

April 19, 2012; Atlanta (Participant List) 
April 26, 2012; Phoenix (Participant List)

Handouts

Overview Discussion:  What’s Working and What’s Not

Highlights and Discussion of Promising Approaches               

  • Getting Past Go
    Bruce Vandal    , director, Postsecondary and Workforce Development Institute, Education Commission of the States 


Breakouts & Speaker Resources

Peter Adams 

  • Breakout Powerpoint
  • Accelerated Learning Program (ALP)
    ALP is an innovative approach to basic writing programs that accelerates basic writing students through their developmental writing course and ENG 101 in one semester. ALP builds on the strengths of earlier approaches such as mainstreaming, studios, learning communities, and bridge programs. It is showing great promise in improving the success rates of students
  • ALPIN: The ALP Inquiry Network
    A website where faculty teaching ALP share what works, what doesn't work, how to solve problems, and anything else related to teaching in an ALP program.
     

Katie Hern 

  • Breakout Powerpoint
  • California Acceleration Project 
    The website has resources for community colleges at all stages of implementing accelerated redesign of their English and Math curricula. Resources include video presentations that make the case for acceleration data from established accelerated programs, articles on colleges that have implemented acceleration across the state (e.g. story of how Citrus College integrated reading and writing and dramatically shortened their developmental sequence), and classroom-based materials to support faculty in teaching new accelerated courses (e.g. sample curricular materials, guidelines for choosing texts, practices for addressing students' affective needs).
     

Uri Treisman

Tristan Denley

Bruce Vandal 

  • Breakout Powerpoint
  • “Getting Past Go"
    A blog project by The Education Commission of the States (ECS), in collaboration with the Project on Education Policy, Access and Remedial Education (PREPARE)
     

TAACCCT WORKSHOP

April 12, 2012

CCA CHICAGO GATEWAY COURSE SUCCESS INSTITUTE
September 27, 2011; Chicago, Illinois

Complete College America Materials

Peter Adams, Director of Accelerated Learning Program, Essex Campus Community College of Baltimore County 

Tristan Denley, Provost and Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs, Austin Peay State University 


Katie Hern and Myra Snell, California Acceleration Project

Uri Treisman and Jenna Cullianne, The Charles A. Dana Center, University of Texas at Austin


Bruce Vandal, Director, Postsecondary and Workforce Development, Education Commission of the States

CCA 2011 ANNUAL CONVENING
October 18-19, 2011; Austin, Texas 


STRUCTURE

CCA PRESS CLIPS

OTHER COMPLETION RESOURCES


For a much more comprehensive library of publications on higher education issues, visit the resources section of the Lumina Foundation's website. If you are aware of new research or publications that relate to our work, please let us know.