CCRC: What We Know About Nonacademic Student Supports
This practitioner packet summarizes CCRC and other research on nonacademic student supports, defined as activities and programs that are designed to encourage academic success but that do not deal directly with academic content.
This practitioner packet summarizes CCRC and other research on nonacademic student supports, defined as activities and programs that are designed to encourage academic success but that do not deal directly with academic content.
Part 1, What We Know About Nonacademic Student Supports, describes the mechanisms by which student supports improve student outcomes, reviews research on popular nonacademic student support programs, and lays out an approach to improving student supports termed SSIP: Sustained, Strategic, Intrusive and Integrated, and Personalized.
Part 2, Designing a System for Strategic Advising, reviews relevant research on advising and e-advising and makes recommendations on how the SSIP approach can be applied to advising at community colleges.
Part 3, Success Courses for Sustained Impact, reviews quantitative and qualitative research findings on student success courses and makes recommendations on how student success courses might be designed and implemented to have a greater impact on long-term student outcomes.
Community colleges have created an array of student support activities over the decades designed to promote student success. This series of reports examines the effectiveness of these activities. In addition to highlighting four mechanisms that do have evidence of success, the report details the shortfalls of some of the most popular types of support, along with evidence on their varying degrees of effectiveness. This report can be helpful for programs wishing to examine the effectiveness of the range of student supports they might consider integrating into their IETs.
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