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Student Success

Students enroll in community colleges with a wide range of experiences, abilities and goals.Guiding them in the successful accomplishment of their educational goals requires keen understandings of their needs and providing timely and appropriate learning opportunities and services.

President Obama has elevated higher education as a top economic priority through his ambitious goal to add five million college graduates by the year 2020 and to return the United States to its former place as the most educated nation in the world.

Community colleges will be instrumental in improving America’s postsecondary educational attainment. Students who enroll in community colleges have a wide range of experiences, abilities and goals. Guiding them in the successful accomplishment of their educational goals requires keen understandings of their needs and providing timely and appropriate learning opportunities and services.

These web pages contain information about research and special initiatives related to community colleges and student success.