Can partnerships with community-based organizations improve students' success at mid-size urban community colleges?

• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2047/D20281288

The focus of this research is to provide a framework for community colleges and community-based organizations to partner in a manner that improves student outcomes in persistence and graduation rates. The proposed framework encourages digital student engagement that assists students with their non-academic needs, such as hunger or homelessness. Community college retention and completion rates are important because the national completion rates at community colleges are subpar. The low completion rates at community colleges have led some policymakers to ask for more accountability and transparency in the community college sector.