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- Alyssa Ratledge and Melissa Wavelet examine recommendations for states seeking to allocate funds to put in place evidence-based programs to increase college graduation rates.
- Why are multifaceted programs better at addressing the barriers to success that disadvantaged students face?
- Learn more about improving college graduation rates.
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Across the country, postsecondary education leaders are striving to increase graduation rates. Among a variety of evidence-based strategies to boost those numbers, perhaps the most prominent are multifaceted student support programs. These programs use multiple components over two to three years to address students’ barriers to success.
Multifaceted support programs have been proven to increase graduation rates. One notable example, the Accelerated Study in Associate Programs (ASAP) model, has been proven to nearly double graduation rates in multiple colleges across diverse states and for a variety of student populations.
Read the full article about multifaceted support programs by Alyssa Ratledge and Melissa Wavelet at MDRC.