| Author(s): | Moore, C., and Shulock, N. |
| Title: | Divided we fail in LA: Improving completion and closing racial gaps in the Los Angeles community college district |
| Source: | http://www.csus.edu/ihelp/PDFs/R_DWF_LA_11-10.pdf |
| Date: | 2010 |
| Organization: | Institute for Higher Education Leadership and Policy |
| Short Description: | At the request of Alliance for a Better Community, an organization dedicated to enhancing opportunities for Latinos to ensure the well-being of the Los Angeles region, this report summarizes student progress over 6 years for over 18,000 students in the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD). It examines student progress through intermediate outcomes (called “milestones”) and on to the completion of certificates, degrees and transfers. |
| Annotation: | At the request of Alliance for a Better Community, an organization dedicated to enhancing opportunities for Latinos to ensure the well-being of the Los Angeles region, this report summarizes student progress over 6 years for over 18,000 students in the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD). It examines student progress through intermediate outcomes (called “milestones”) and on to the completion of certificates, degrees and transfers. Analyses of student progress and outcomes in LACCD and other large urban districts can contribute to an understanding of the challenges faced by those colleges that serve the most diverse student populations, with all the issues of under-preparation and lack of economic and social resources that accompany that diversity. While these colleges, like others, must ensure that they are implementing effective
campus practices, the challenges they face may call for broader solutions involving changes to system and state policy that
would help large urban districts afford and sustain their efforts. |
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