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Center for Community College Student Engagement
About the Center

Supporting student success through engagement.

The Center’s Mission
The Center for Community College Student Engagement, a research and service initiative of the Program in Higher Education Leadership in the Department of Educational Administration in the College of Education at The University of Texas at Austin, provides important information about effective educational practice in community colleges. The Center assists institutions and policymakers in using information to promote improvements in student learning, persistence, and attainment.

 

Please see the Center’s YouTube page page to watch community college students, faculty, and staff speak about their experiences.

Surveys

The Center conducts a collection of national surveys:

SENSE 2020: The student voice quantified
Engagement Matters Volume 17 Issue 1

Check Out the Center’s Spring E-News Update: Engagement Matters

The Center publishes Engagement Matters twice a year as a venue for providing project updates, previewing survey and focus group findings, and highlighting member college stories.

This issue features one member colleges that has used Center data for institutional transformation, highlights survey results on participation in student success courses, and shares information about upcoming webinars the Center will host.

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Re-Engaging Data October 2019

Center Releases Latest Issue of Re-Engaging Data

In Re-Engaging Data, the Center shares additional findings from national report data.

This issue explores the intersection of academic mindset and guided pathways.

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Preserving Culture and Planning for the Future: An Exploration of Student Experiences at Tribal Colleges

Center Releases Report on Student Experiences at Tribal Colleges

Preserving Culture and Planning for the Future: An Exploration of Student Experiences at Tribal Colleges aims to share a narrative of the students who attend these unique institutions.

Over 1,000 students across 25 tribal colleges responded to the 2017 Survey of Entering Student Engagement (SENSE), which collects information from students about their experiences from the time they decide to enroll in college through the third week of their first term. Over 2,400 students across 22 tribal colleges responded to the 2018 Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE), which gathers information from students in the spring term about their experiences throughout the academic year.

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A Mind at Work: Maximizing the Relationship Between Mindset and Student Success

Center Releases Report on Academic Mindset and Student Success

With survey findings collected from over 80,000 community college students across 159 institutions, A Mind at Work: Maximizing the Relationship Between Mindset and Student Success indicates that students who have more productive academic mindsets are more engaged and have higher GPAs.

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Davis Jenkins
Senior Research Scholar
Community College Research Center Teachers College, Columbia University

“The Center’s video clips allow us to better understand students’ experience in their own words. As such, they provide insight into how profoundly college practices affect students’ lives—both positively and negatively. I believe this insight, together with the emotional impact of hearing directly from students, is more likely than any other data or evidence to spur us as educators to leave behind our predilections and prejudices about why students do and do not succeed—and to change college practice in ways that enrich learning and support for students in and outside the classroom.”

 

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