ABSTRACT
Over the last decade, there has been a growing focus on strategies to improve not only access to higher education but also the successful completion of credentials of value. These efforts have ranged from the introduction of new classroom pedagogy approaches to the creation of new models of higher education. This chapter explores the Momentum Year, the first comprehensive student success strategy to address American college completion at a statewide scale. This chapter develops the theoretical framework behind this theory of change, and explores the evidence, data and research behind three of its threads, together with the strategies that were developed and implemented to radically impact student success.
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