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GNYC drives systems-level change by leveraging its College Completion Innovation Fund (CCIF) to disseminate best practices to decision makers throughout the college persistence and completion sector. See below for some successes from our previous award cycles.

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The City College of New York

[/av_textblock] [av_image src=’http://165.22.10.73/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/190567_hero-1-1030×687.jpg’ attachment=’3423′ attachment_size=’large’ align=’center’ styling=” hover=” link=” target=” caption=” font_size=” appearance=” overlay_opacity=’0.4′ overlay_color=’#000000′ overlay_text_color=’#ffffff’ animation=’no-animation’ custom_class=” av_uid=’av-hbg4qo’][/av_image] [av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” custom_class=” av_uid=’av-faryn4′] The City College of New York was awarded a persistence grant during the College Completion Innovation Fund’s 2016 Grantmaking Cycle to identify, re-engage, and support students who are fewer than 12 credits away from graduation, but have abandoned their studies. This project also aimed to pinpoint and correct systemic non-academic barriers to graduation, developing a set of eight recommendations that will impact almost 13,000 students annually and will shape future degree attainment at the college. Most of these recommendations were implemented during the 2017-18 academic year and included:
  • Establishing a protocol for digitizing student records, enabling staff to give students precise and timely advice on what they must do in order to graduate the following semester
  • Switching to “opt-out” rather than “opt-in” graduation application procedures
  • Creating alerts that notify students and advisors when second semester juniors have unfulfilled general education requirements
  • Creating alerts that notify advisors when students fail a “high stakes” requirement
  • Establishing a stronger connection between core/pathways advising and major advising in part by relocating faculty office hours to the advising office to collaborate with professional advising staff
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NYC Outward Bound Schools

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Hostos Community College 

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  • Depending on the semester, students who participated in the intervention passed the course with a grade of “C” or better at a rate of 65%-74%, as compared to 46%-58% of students in the control group
  • Students who participated in the intervention had significantly lower incomplete rates, 8%-12%, compared to 20%-28% for students in the control group
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