Lindsay Daugherty

This project will inform Colorado's efforts to increase college attainment by supporting students' needs for food and related human services. Many college students struggle with food insecurity, and evidence increasingly suggests that food insecurity can act as a barrier to postsecondary success. Colorado state agencies and postsecondary institutions are looking for ways to expand student participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to ensure that students receive nu...

For this project, the research team will provide evidence on the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of Virtual Enterprises (VE), a virtual work-based learning (WBL) program. Many high schools are struggling to ensure that all graduates are prepared for college and the workforce, and employers consistently report difficulty in finding workers with sufficient employability skills, such as teamwork and communication. A growing number of education practitioners and researchers have argued that inco...

Studies indicate that many college students face major issues with financial and basic needs insecurity. Colleges are increasingly looking for ways to help students to address the life challenges they face that act as barriers to successful degree and certificate completion. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the implementation, impact, and costs of a widely used intervention designed to support such students called Single Stop.

This project sought to improve student progression through stackable credential pipelines -sequences of aligned credentials that connect from short-term certificates to a bachelor's degree and beyond in a chosen field. The partnership team assessed growth in stackable credential programs in health, manufacturing, and information technology; patterns of credential-stacking; and earnings outcomes for individuals who stacked credentials. Based on these findings, the team developed an agenda for...

The partnership assessed whether placing incoming college students testing near college-ready in writing into a corequisite model that paired a college-level English Composition I course with a concurrent developmental education support produced higher rates of college success than requiring these students to complete a developmental (remedial) Integrated Reading and Writing course prior to enrolling in credit-bearing courses. The evaluation responded to prior research evidence showing that ...