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: 

CCA Original Materials
Performance Funding
Time to Degree
Remediation
Chicago Remediation Insititute (September 21, 2011)
CCA 2011 Annual Convening (October 18-19, 2011)
Structure
Other Completion Resources

 

CCA ORIGINAL MATERIALS

New Thinking for a New Majority (PowerPoint)
Complete College America (Fall 2011)

Time Is The Enemy
Complete College America (September 2011)

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

Freedom to Fail? The Board's Role in Reducing College Dropout Rates
Stan Jones, Complete College America, Trusteeship Magazine (January/February 2011)

Certificates Count: An Analysis of Sub-Baccalaureate Certificates
Brian Bosworth, FutureWorks, for Complete College America (December 2010)

Complete College America at the White House Summit on Community College
Complete College America (August 2010)

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

 

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)

 

REMEDIATION

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 CHICAGO REMEDIATION INSTITUTE
September 27, 2011; Chicago, Illinois

Complete College America Materials

Presenter Materials

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

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


Dr. Katie Hern and Myra Snell, California Acceleration Project

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


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

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

New Thinking for a New Majority (CCA PowerPoint)

Best Practices from Complete College Oklahoma


STRUCTURE

Educational Attainment Strategies for Working Adults and Nontraditional Students: Applying New Models in Postsecondary Education
John Hoops, FutureWorks (April 2010). 

Freedom to Fail? The Board's Role in Reducing College Dropout Rates
Stan Jones, Complete College America, Trusteeship Magazine (January/February 2011)

 

OTHER COMPLETION RESOURCES

No Time to Waste: Policy Recommendations for Increasing College Completion
Southern Regional Education Board (September 2010)

With their Whole Lives Ahead of Them:  Myths and Realities About Why So Many Students Fail to Finish College
Public Agenda for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (2009).

A Stronger Nation through Higher Education
Lumina Foundation for Education (February 2009).

Getting Ahead – Staying Ahead:  Helping America’s Workforce Succeed in the 21st Century
Business Roundtable Springboard Project (December 2009).

Help Wanted: Projections of Jobs and Education Requirements through 2018
Anthony Carnevale, Nicole Smith & Jeff Strohl; Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce (2010).

Charting a Necessary Path: The Baseline Report of the Access to Success Initiative
National Association of System Heads (NASH) and The Education Trust (December 2009).

Community College: The Unfinished Revolution
James E. Rosenbaum, Julie Redline, Jennifer L. Stephan (Summer 2007). 

Building and Strengthening State Data Systems to Measure Community College and Workforce Outcomes
Jennifer Phillips, The Working Poor Families Project (Fall 2009).

 

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.