ERIC Number: ED496601
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2007-Apr
Pages: 41
Abstractor: ERIC
Reference Count: 15
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: N/A
Enhancing Student Services at Owens Community College: Early Results from the Opening Doors Demonstration in Ohio
Scrivener, Susan; Pih, Michael
MDRC
MDRC launched Opening Doors in 2003 to study the effects of community college programs designed to help students persist in school and earn a credential. This report presents early results from the Opening Doors program at Owens Community College in Toledo, Ohio, which operated from 2004 through 2006. The two-semester program served students whose family income was below 250 percent of the federal poverty level and who were either incoming freshmen or returning students who had completed fewer than 13 credits and had a history of academic difficulties. The early results from Owens show that the program boosted enrollment in the short run but did not have a significant lasting effect. The pattern of the results is similar to what MDRC found at Lorain County Community College in Elyria, Ohio, whose Opening Doors intervention was structured like the program at Owens. This is the fourth in a series of reports that present preliminary findings from MDRC's Opening Doors demonstration. (Contains 4 tables and 1 figure.) [Dissemination of MDRC publications is also supported by The Starr Foundation. The Opening Doors Project; and the MDRC Endowment, whose earnings help sustain MDRC's dissemination efforts, are supported by numerous foundations and government agencies, which are listed at the front of this report.]
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Programs, Poverty, Two Year College Students, Academic Persistence, Program Effectiveness, Academic Advising, Student Financial Aid, Tutoring, Participant Characteristics
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Publication Type: Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Two Year Colleges
Audience: Practitioners; Policymakers
Language: English
Sponsor: Alcoa Foundation, Pittsburgh, PA.; Ambrose Monell Foundation, New York, NY.; Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation, Inc., New York, NY.
Authoring Institution: Manpower Demonstration Research Corp., New York, NY.
Identifiers: Ohio


