While community colleges give first-generation students a chance to open the door to education, simply walking through that door is not enough. Once there, many
In the United States, 1,200 community colleges enroll over ten million students each year—nearly half of the nation’s undergraduates. Yet fewer than 40 perc
Ultimately, The Costs of Completion offers a deeper, more complex understanding of who community college students are, why and how they enroll, and what higher
For much of the twentieth century, the definition of success for most community colleges revolved around student retention and graduation. This definition no lo