#DRIVER EVALUATION PROGRAM ECMC FULL#

#DRIVER EVALUATION PROGRAM ECMC FULL#

The Ohio colleges targeted students who were from low-income families, willing to attend full time, and in majors where degrees could be completed within three years.

CUNY provided technical assistance to the colleges, and the Ohio Department of Higher Education coordinated the Ohio ASAP Network, which allowed administrators to share lessons across the three colleges. Instead of the MetroCards, the three Ohio colleges offer $50 gift cards for use at local gas and grocery store chains. While a few program components had to be adjusted to meet the local context, the goal was to come as close to ASAP as possible. Additionally, ASAP is currently being replicated at seven institutions across four additional states beyond Ohio.Īll three colleges in the Ohio demonstration modeled their programs’ administrative structure and services on CUNY ASAP. Based on the success of the program, ASAP has been expanded across CUNY from 1,132 students in 2007 to 25,000 students in 2019. ASAP requires students to attend college full time and provides them with a rich array of support services for three full years, including enhanced advising, first-year courses reserved for program students, cohort course-taking, tutoring, career services, a tuition waiver to cover any gap between a student’s financial aid and tuition and fees, MetroCards for use on public transportation, and textbook assistance. In 2007, the City University of New York, with the support and funding from the New York City Mayor’s Office for Economic Opportunity, launched ASAP at the then six existing CUNY community colleges to dramatically increase timely graduation. Ascendium Education Group provided anchor funding for the demonstration and evaluation, supplemented with grants from a group of other higher education philanthropies. The results from the new study were unveiled at a forum in Columbus, Ohio. ASAP requires students to enroll full time and provides comprehensive financial, academic, and personal support services. In 2014, Cincinnati State Technical and Community College, Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C), and Lorain County Community College ( LCCC) set out to address their low-income students’ needs by turning to a proven-effective program: Accelerated Study in Associate Programs ( ASAP) developed by the City University of New York ( CUNY). The evaluation, conducted by the nonprofit, nonpartisan research firm MDRC, also finds that the Ohio programs had positive effects on enrollment, full-time enrollment, and credits earned. The magnitude of these results mirrors impacts achieved by the original CUNY program. (Columbus, Ohio, January 28, 2020) - New results released today from a random assignment evaluation show that three Ohio community colleges have successfully adapted the City University of New York’s ( CUNY’s) innovative Accelerated Study in Associate Programs ( ASAP), nearly doubling three-year graduation rates and increasing transfers to four-year colleges by 50 percent. Jeff Robinson, Ohio Department of Higher Education, 61, JR.Joseph Tirella, City University of New York, 64,.

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