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C2C in Tallahassee Community College
Tallahassee Community College (TCC) is one of nine community colleges nationwide selected for Campus Compact’s Connect2Complete (C2C) pilot program. Through two distinct strategies—course-based peer-to peer advocacy and peer-assisted service-learning—C2C supports vulnerable students in achieving academic success and credential completion while they actively engage with their peers, their college, and their broader community. These strategies encourage academic development, social integration, personal development, and civic consciousness—all key factors for student persistence. At TCC, C2C has inspired a college-wide culture of change, and the program has proved to be the catalyst for including service-learning and civic engagement in the College’s strategic plan. C2C…
C2C in Owens Community College
Historically, Owens Community College has offered diverse programs that support first-year college students and ease their transitions to college life. In 2011, Campus Compact funded Owens and eight other community colleges in Florida, Ohio, and Washington (together with the Compact’s related state affiliates) to implement an ambitious pilot program called Connect2Complete (C2C). Through two distinct strategies—course-based peer-to-peer advocacy and peer-assisted service-learning—C2C supports vulnerable students in achieving academic success and credential completion while they actively engage with their peers, their college, and their broader community. These strategies encourage academic development, social integration, personal development, and civic consciousness—all key factors for student…
C2C in Miami Dade College
In 2011, Miami Dade College (MDC) was one of nine community colleges selected by Campus Compact to participate in Connect2Complete (C2C), a national pilot program intended to increase retention and persistence rates among low-income, underprepared students through course-based peer-to-peer advocacy and peer-assisted service-learning. This article describes the context and the great need for this type of program at MDC, the C2C program that we developed, its particular emphasis on social engagement, lessons learned, and recommended next steps. MDC built its C2C model on a new, credit-bearing Leadership Seminar for peer advocates (PAs). PAs were subsequently matched with C2C target-population students,…
C2C in Green River Community College
“A Journey without a Road Map: Developing Our Connect2Complete Program at Green River Community College” describes, in a Homeric fashion, the journey involved in developing a Connect2Complete (C2C) program from the ground up. The article outlines the primary components of this C2C pilot program, and it provides detail about challenges, wrong turns, and dead ends encountered, as well as successful pathways and roads found and forged in establishing a workable and effective program. A Journey without a Road Map: Developing Our Connect2Complete Program at Green River Community College is a report of the lessons from C2C in Green River Community…
Foreword: Lessons from C2C Pilots
The Foreword, titled “Weaving Service-Learning and Peer Advocacy into Developmental Education Courses” demonstrates how Connect2Complete (C2C) is a program for community college students, which encourages academic development, social integration, personal development, and civic consciousness—all key factors for student success. Through two distinct strategies—course-based peer-to-peer advocacy and peer-assisted service-learning—C2C supports vulnerable students in achieving academic success and credential completion while they actively engage with their peers, their college, and their broader community. To implement ambitious C2C pilot projects, Campus Compact, through the support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, funded nine community colleges in Florida, Ohio, and Washington, along with…
C2C in Edmonds Community College
This article explores the integration of service-learning and peer advocacy in two developmental writing classes at Edmonds Community College. The article is the work of two Edmonds instructors, both part-time faculty, who have designed curriculum and implemented strategies to increase student success and retention based on Connect2Complete (C2C), a Campus Compact model piloted at Edmonds and eight other community colleges between 2012 and 2014. C2C aims to serve vulnerable students through the combined use of course-based peer-to-peer advocacy and peer-assisted service-learning. As students support each other and engage their communities, they develop academically, personally, and as citizens—growth that in turn…
C2C in Broward College
Making a smooth transition to college can be an overwhelming experience. Campus Compact’s Connect2Complete (C2C) initiative can ease this transition through intentional and purposeful intervention strategies that increase rates of success and persistence among underprepared, low-income students in community colleges. The Connect2Complete pilot at Broward College promoted a caring and nurturing institutional environment in which faculty utilized peer-to-peer advocacy and peer-assisted service-learning to support student success. Broward’s C2C pilot engaged students as they defined goals, practiced making wise choices, improved classroom communication skills, and made connections with experienced students, staff, faculty and the community. Engaging Students, Engaging Faculty through Connect2Complete…
C2C in Big Bend Community College
This article describes the pilot implementation at Big Bend Community College of Connect2Complete (C2C), a program created by Campus Compact with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Through course-based peer-to-peer advocacy and peer-assisted service-learning—C2C supports vulnerable students in achieving academic success and credential completion while they actively engage with their peers, their college, and their broader community. These strategies encourage academic development, social integration, personal development, and civic consciousness—all key factors for student persistence. The article explores the assets and strengths that developmental education students bring to service-learning and to peer advocacy. At Big Bend, the C2C program…