• "Advising Academically Underprepared Students" via the Clearinghouse
• Advising At-Risk Students article in the College Student Journal
• "The Importance of Paying Attention: Ten Points to Empower Our Students" article in The Mentor
• "Advising the Involved Student: When Extracurricular Involvement Compromises Academic Achievement" article in The Mentor
•  America's Most Overrated Product: the Bachelor's Degree via The Chronicle of Higher Education Note: you may need your institution's password to access article on The Chronicle site
• Claiming Common Ground: State Policy Making for Improving College Readiness and Success
• Colleges spend billions to prep freshmen via The Boston Globe
• Comprehensive and intensive orientation programs
• Developmental Advising
• Do Student Success Courses Actually Help Community College Students Succeed? (CCRC Brief No. 36)

• Early Alert Systems
• The Effect of Risk Factors and Student Services Interventions on College Retention. Study by Utah Valley State College
• Engaging students, challenging the odds via the Community College Survey of Student Engagement
• 'Engagement' and the Underprepared via Inside Higher Ed
• Freshmen seminar courses
• "Getting Prepared for the Underprepared" article in The Mentor
• Helping failing students series via the Association for Psychological Science
  • The actively failing student
  • Understanding, reaching, and helping passively failing students
• How to teach English to at-risk college students via The Chronicle
• Identifying at-risk students: What data are you looking at?  via Academic Impressions
• Intrusive Advising
• Learning community programs that includes common courses and residence on campus
• "Most College-Bound Students Underprepared, Studies Say" via Recruitment and Retention in Higher Education
• Multi-year study of community college practices asks: What helps students graduate? via The Chronicle*
• SSSP (Federally funded Student Support Services Program) for students who are any one of the following: 1 st generation, have a verifiable disability, or have a Pell Grant in their financial aid package. The program includes tutoring; academic, personal, career advising; study skills and personal development workshops; financial aid and scholarship information; cultural enrichment activities and trips to student conferences. Program examples:
  • Iowa State University
  • Arizona State University
• Mentoring programs that involve faculty and peers
• Paying Double: Inadequate high schools and community college remediation via the Alliance for Excellent Education
• Placement Instruments*:
  • ACCUPLACER testing, placing and reporting by College Board
  • ASSET testing and advising program for placing students by ACT
  • COMPASS computerized assessment and placement system by ACT
• Promising Path on Remediation via Inside Higher Ed
• Remediation: The Unyielding Challange via Community College Week
• Retention
• Underprepared students
  

 

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