The dominant metaphor for colleges of education is a pipeline. Candidates enter, complete preparation, and exit into schools. That model is no longer sufficient.
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.
As higher education rebounds from the pandemic dip and amasses more nontraditional learners, here are some data points that can win over more skeptical students and their families.
Nearly half of all community college students reach meaningful milestones—a far better picture than traditional graduation rates suggest, a new Federal Reserve metric finds.
