First Year Reading – Read Anything Good Lately? And Why?

Enter a four-year college today as a first year student and more often than not, you will be asked to participate in a common first year reading. It was not always so. Shared readings have long been part of collegiate intellectual life. Over the past twenty plus years their use, especially in the first year,…

Community Colleges and Baccalaureate Completion – Actionable New Research

One of basic facts of higher education completion is that students who start at community colleges are less likely to graduate from a four-year institution than students who start at a four-year institutions. It is a constant source of concern for all of us who work at the community college level. David P. Monaghan and…