November 16, 2007

Some Community-College Students Fall Through the Cracks in Their First Month

By ELYSE ASHBURN

Many new community-college students receive little or no attention from advisers in their first four weeks of class, even though those first weeks are key to helping students succeed.

Those findings, from this year's Community College Survey of Student Engagement, indicate that many students have barely made it through the door before they slip off their college's radar.

"The results are interesting and compelling and completely unsurprising," says Kay M. McClenney, the survey's

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