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Section 1: The C2C Model

Section 1, The C2C Model, provides readers with a high-level understanding of the C2C strategy. It begins with an overview that paints a picture of what the program looks like on the ground. A review of the theory and assumptions underlying C2C connects theory with outcomes for participants. Discussions of service-learning and peer advocacy summarize research on the positive impact of these approaches on student success, review the integrated C2C approach in depth, and lay the foundation for C2C implementation (explored in later sections).

On Wisconsin

Andrew Seligsohn, President, Campus Compact

One of the many pleasures of my job is traveling around the country seeing the inspiring work of our state and regional Campus Compacts and the faculty, staff, and students of our member colleges and universities. Last week, I was in Madison for the annual Wisconsin Campus Compact Civic Engagement Institute. It was a daylong gathering featuring an intriguing keynote address by Ed Morrison, founder of Strategic Doing, located at Purdue University’s Center for Regional Development. I had the opportunity to sit down with chancellors and presidents, participate in the introduction of WiCC’s talented new executive director, and cheer along…

Campus Compact’s Thirtieth Anniversary

Andrew Seligsohn, President, Campus Compact

“In the face of growing complexity and danger in the problems facing American society, there are clear signs that self-interest is undermining public interest. There is todaya dangerous mismatch between the country’s urgent need for civic mindedness and the parochial attitudes of its citizens. The intense demand for economic, social, and political renewal requires a far greater sense of public purpose.” Those are the opening lines of the background information provided to attendees at the first meeting of the Coalition of College Presidents for Civic Responsibility, held at Georgetown University in January of 1986. By the end of that year,…

Service-Learning at the American Community College

This volume brings together a breadth of new research on how service-learning – combining community-based experiential learning with classroom instruction – can best be employed at community colleges. It discusses outcomes and best practices for all involved, covers both theory and practice, and draws on both qualitative and quantitative methods. http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/servicelearning-at-the-american-community-college-amy-e-traver/?K=9781137361707

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,…

Connect2Complete: A Journey within a Journey

At Lorain County Community College, a suite of individual success and completion initiatives is having significant impact and is effecting transformational change at every level of the institution. Within this context, Lorain’s pilot implementation of Campus Compact’s Connect2Complete (C2C) program proved to be a successful journey within a journey. C2C links peer advocacy with peer-assisted service-learning to increase graduation and completion rates for the most vulnerable of community college students. For Lorain, designing, implementing, evaluating, and supporting Connect2Complete required continuous adaptation in response to the changing educational landscape of the College./wp-content/uploads/2015/04/C2CLessons.LORAIN-SB.pdf

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…

Mentor Guide Booklet from College Initiative

This Mentor Guide Booklet is a resource for mentors working with at-risk youth. It’s main usage is to troubleshoot by recording issues the student is willing to share and suggesting ways to tackle these issues. College Initiative (CI) is a reentry education non-profit that provides postsecondary access and support services for formerly incarcerated and court‐involved New York City residents. CI’ʹs peer mentoring program, matches senior students with incoming students for two consecutive semesters. Mentors offer support and referral services as well as regular assessments of student progress. /wp-content/uploads/2015/04/MentorGuideBooklet-CI.pdf

Academic College Shock Video

A video produced by firstinthefamily.org focused on ways that students experience academic college shock as they adjust to the differing demands between high school and college. http://www.firstinthefamily.org/collegeyears/soundslides/AcademicCultureShock/index.html

Balancing Work and College Video

A video produced by firstinthefamily.org focused on ways that students can manage work and financial pressures while in college. http://www.firstinthefamily.org/collegeyears/soundslides/Balancing_Work_Studies/index.html

Balancing School and Family Responsibilities Video

A video produced by firstinthefamily.org focused on ways that students can balance family responsibilities with college. http://www.firstinthefamily.org/collegeyears/soundslides/FamilyResponsibilities/index.html

Peer Support Video

A video produced by firstinthefamily.org focused on the role that peer support can play in supporting student success. http://www.firstinthefamily.org/collegeyears/soundslides/PeerSupport/index.html

First in the Family Book: Advice About College from First Generation Students, Your College Years

A book produced by firstinthefamily.org focused on the advice about college from first generation students. http://www.firstinthefamily.org/pdfs/First%20in%20Family_manuscript.pdf

C2C Peer Advocate Training Webinar 1

These webinar videos a & B make up the first lesson in a 2-part webinar series that serves as a companion to C2C Resource Guide Appendix 3-2. This Appendix focuses on sample lessons for improving student success: identity & self-concept. This webinar provides strategies for peer advocates and faculty to support C2C students with reflecting on and developing self-efficacy and a college-staying identity. WEBINAR 1: PART A WEBINAR 2: PART B