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Helping Community Colleges Provide Connecting Activities to Boost Success

A diverse group of community college students sit on the steps outside their campus library.

Helping Community Colleges Provide Connecting Activities to Boost Success

The IEL-led National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability for Youth released a series of briefs for community colleges: Supporting Student Success through Connecting Activities. Community college leaders are increasingly concerned with finding ways to better support and engage students to improve college completion rates. The series highlights the importance of connecting postsecondary students to services and supports, such as physical and mental health services, housing and transportation assistance, academic skills training, financial planning and assistance services, and a variety of other community-based adult services. Connecting students to these services and opportunities can help increase postsecondary persistence and completion rates. READ MORE…