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.