“Success courses” could help community college students reach academic goals

12-20-2011

By Louis Freedberg and Monique Smith/EdSource Extra

An emerging strategy to promote community college success is to have students enroll in “student success courses” that focus on study and career skills and help guide them through their community college experience. Encouraging more students to take these courses, as part of a range of “student support services,” is a principal recommendation of the California Community College’s Student Success Task Force. The Task Force was mandated by 2010 legislation to examine how to improve student success in community colleges. In its draft report, it tersely noted that “a student’s readiness for college is based on several factors in addition to their academic proficiency in English and mathematics or their ability to perform well on standard assessment tests.” (more...)

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