With so many strategies aimed at improving college student outcomes, we should be consistently asking: what works, for whom, under what conditions, and how do we use this information to better help our students? In this workshop, attendees will review results from a landscape analysis of college success practices and organizations that included interviews with over 100 leading practitioners, researchers, and funders. We will better understand the range and variation of college success practices as well as their costs, benefits, and replicability. Further, the group will examine how to measure the impact of our work in improving college completion and other postsecondary outcomes for our students. College access and success programs and higher education institutions must choose wisely where and how to expend limited resources. Attendees will leave this workshop better prepared to evaluate and innovate existing practices to help more students succeed in college and beyond.
Guiding Questions:
1) Of all your programs and activities, which are the most important in helping your
students successfully graduate in four years with a bachelor’s degree? How do you know?
2) Without any additional money, how could your college success efforts serve more students or result in more students graduating on-time?
3) If you think your efforts are working well, how would someone replicate them in their geographic area or college?