Student Success and Progress

Research and policy perspectives relating to math attainment, the Student Achievement Initiative (SAI), Guided Pathways, and strategic enrollment management.

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Student Success and Progress

• Math in the First Year (June 2024 research brief)
• Equity in College Preparatory Programs with Exams (November 2019 research report)
• Campus Childcare Recipients (May 2018 research brief)
• First Year English: Key Data Points (May 2018 research brief)
• Running Start Participation and Success (March 2018 research brief)
• Strategic Enrollment Management for Community and Technical Colleges
• Math Achievement Gains
• Growing Enrollment in Precalculus and Calculus Courses

Guided Pathways

• Research Report 20-3: The economic and social reasons behind a two-year degree and green shoots that offer evidence for how to graduate more students with one
• Guiding Students To and Through Professional-Technical Workforce Pathways (May 2019 research report)
• Role of Psychology 100 in Guided Pathways (May 2018 research report)
• Guided Pathways and Running Start: Identifying Relevant College Milestones for Running Start Students and Implications for Widening Their Pathways to College
• Guided Pathways: How Completions May Begin to Change

Student Achievement Initiative

• Student Achievement Initiative 3.0: A Policy Focus on Equity (September 2020 research report)
• Student Achievement Initiative 3.0 (September 2018 research brief)
• Student Achievement Initiative: Lessons Learned since the 2012 Revisions and Considerations for a New Allocation Model (July 2016 research report)
• Shifting from Enrollment- to Performance-Based Funding in Higher Education (working paper, February 2016)