CUNY Start: Addressing Students' Remedial Needs at Public Community Colleges

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Each year the majority of community college students are deemed academically underprepared for college level work. Traditionally, preparation for college-level courses has occurred via remedial courses. Yet, fewer than one-third of these students complete their remedial requirements within six years. Subsequently, researchers and practitioners are seeking effective ways to get students to and through their college level coursework. This panel explores an intensive pre-matriculation program developed by the City University of New York which aims to help students become college ready in just one semester, an innovative alternative to the traditional multi semester remedial course sequences.

Sub Unit

• Division J - Postsecondary Education / Division J - Section 1: College Student Learning and Development

Chair

• Nikki Edgecombe, Teachers College, Columbia University

Papers

• CUNY Start: An Intensive Pre-Matriculation Remedial Option - Donna Linderman, City University of New York

• The Implementation of CUNY Start's Professional Development Model - Maria S Cormier, Teachers College, Columbia University; Jessica R Brathwaite

• Effects of CUNY Start on Educational Attainment: Early Findings - Michael Joseph Weiss, MDRC

Discussant

• Thomas R. Bailey, Teachers College, Columbia University