The movement to increase community college student success has never been short on ideas. For two decades, hundreds of institutions have reshaped what student progress looks like and the meaning of institutional responsibility.
Faculty and administrators have redesigned developmental education, built guided pathways that put students at the center of their institutions, and launched strategies to improve early momentum results so that institutions and students know if they are on track to completion.
These were novel ideas and the changes mattered. With new urgency to address the holistic needs of students inside and outside the classroom, completion rates have improved. Institutional cultures have shifted. And a generation of college leaders now sees student success as the central work of their institutions.
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