Some Community-College Students Fall through the Cracks in Their First Month

Autor/in	Ashburn, Elyse
Titel	Some Community-College Students Fall through the Cracks in Their First Month
Quelle	In: Chronicle of Higher Education, 54 (2007) 12, (1 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-5982
Schlagwörter	College Students; Community Colleges; High Risk Students; Academic Advising; Academic Persistence; Surveys + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Collegestudent; Community college; Community College; Problemschüler; Akademischer Rat; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung
Abstract	This article reports on the findings from the 2007 Community College Survey of Student Engagement. The survey determined the services that students need but are not receiving in their first four weeks of college. It finds that many new community-college students receive little or no attention from advisers in their first four weeks of class. The survey, commonly known as Cessie, also found that more than half of students did not discuss educational goals with an adviser in the first month and that about one-third did not attend orientation. Cessie has revealed several persistent issues since it began in 2001. Students have consistently rated academic advising as the most important service community colleges can provide. Yet a third of students continue to say that they rarely or never use advising. Cessie has also consistently shown that students who are academically underprepared are generally more engaged than academically prepared ones. Underprepared students are much more likely to take advantage of student services like tutoring, skills-development labs, and computer labs. That finding reflects the fact that, not only do underprepared students have to work harder to succeed, but that only the most dedicated high-risk students make it to the spring semester, when Cessie is conducted. To learn what happens to community-college students who don't make it to the second semester, a new project was started this fall, the Survey of Entering Student Engagement (SENSE). The results from that survey are due out in Spring 2007. (Contains 1 figure.) (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10