The hand-off from high-school to public-college support programs
High-school participants of College Visions (CV) and The College Crusade (CC) make up a large portion of the participants in the new, college-based support programs, about 20% the first year and 38% the second year -- a smooth, promising hand-off.
Using a federal College Access Challenge Grant, the Office of the Postsecondary Commissioner is providing resources for each of RI's public colleges to establish strong partnerships with existing college access organizations such as CV and CC and develop coordinated, student-centered support services. These new Access and Persistence Programs (APP) are described on the next slide.
Though in this story we are focusing on students who graduated in 2012, the entire inaugural group of APP participants included both first-time freshmen as well as adult students. Including the adult students, the total number of students served in the first year by institution were CCRI: 77 ; RIC: 118 ; URI: 683. By the second year these numbers had changed to 162, 217, and 601, respectively.
Other college-based support programs exist, but here we focus on these three new ones.
