Topic: Community College Drop-outs
Keywords
- "community college" OR "two-year colleges"
- completion OR graduation OR transfer
- "student success"
- dropout OR "drop-out"
Databases
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Education Research CompleteArticles from scholarly journals and trade publications. Try searching by keyword; also try using the "Thesaurus" link at the top of the page.
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ERICEducation-themed article database. You can limit to "Two-Year Colleges" on the Advanced Search page.
Resources
Below are a number of foundations and think tanks that produce reports on community colleges. This is not peer-reviewed literature; these reports tend to take the form of policy proposals. But they can be excellent sources for your research, provided you combine them with more neutral discussions of the issues.
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American Association of Community Colleges (AACC): ResearchAs you might expect, this organization focuses more on what community colleges do well then their shortcomings.
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Community College Research CenterA research organization from Columbia University.
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Complete College AmericaNonprofit whose mission is "to work with states to significantly increase the number of Americans with quality career certificates or college degrees and to close attainment gaps for traditionally underrepresented populations." Funded by a number of major donors.
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Legislative Analyst's Office: Higher EducationThe non-partisan LAO makes research-based recommendations to California legislators and has done several studies of CA community colleges.
Data
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College Completion: Graduation Rates and Data from 3800 CollegesFrom the Chronicle of Higher Education
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California Community Colleges Success ScorecardA recently launched resource from the Chancellor's Office. It can be a little difficult to understand what is being measured; refer to the documents listed on the documentation page.
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National Center for Education StatisticsProvides information from the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education.
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LRCCD Research Data ResourcesGet information, including completion and degree data, specific to Los Rios.
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SCC College Planning Data and ReportsIncludes info on degrees, transfers etc.
Books
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Redesigning America's Community Colleges: a clearer path to student success by Call Number: LB2328 .B26 2015ISBN: 9780674368286Publication Date: 2015-04-09This recent book discusses many of the current issues and proposes solutions. An ebook version is also available (scroll down to "other formats and editions").
