Take-aways and Recommendations (1st of 2 pages)
Clearly, partnerships among college access and postsecondary support programs successfully smooth students’ transition to college and coordinating comprehensive services while in college enhances their chances for success.
• Strengthening the coordination of efforts across programs and levels would continue to greatly enhance their efficacy.
• Coordinating comprehensive systems of support, especially during the vulnerable transition from high school to college, needs good longitudinal data. Such data will help all partners work together to achieve their common goals for student success.
• Already further study is needed to identify which core services and institutional policies are having the greatest impact on these students. For example, how do the pre-college summer courses impact GPAs, credit accumulation and on-time graduation?
• To be strategic about providing the best services to students, the college support programs must measure their impacts and outcomes continuously.
