The College Completion Agenda: Practical Approaches for Reaching the Big Goal -- CONTENTS -- EDITORS' NOTES -- Foreword -- 1 Leadership Matters: Addressing the Student Success and Completion Agenda -- Beginning of a Movement -- Coaching for Transformation -- The Role of Boards -- Effective Boards -- Reasons for Progress -- Inventory of Policies and Practices -- Transformative Culture -- Changes at the Front Door -- Promising Interventions -- A Movement -- References -- 2 Maximizing Data Use: A Focus on the Completion Agenda -- Data, Indicators, and Metrics -- A Model for Improving Data Use in Colleges -- Analytics -- Data Collection -- Analysis -- Reporting -- Human Judgment and Behavior -- Presentation Is a Key Element -- Getting to Decision Making -- Organizational Habits -- Summary -- References -- 3 Get With the Program . . . and Finish It: Building Guided Pathways to Accelerate Student Completion -- Many Choices, Little Guidance -- Building Guided Pathways to Success -- Clear Roadmaps to Student Goals -- On-Ramps to Programs of Study -- Embedded Advising, Progress Tracking, Feedback, and Support -- Supporting Evidence -- Defaults and Active Choice -- Program Coherence -- Integrated Supports -- Collaboration Is Key -- References -- 4 Acceleration Strategies in the New Developmental Education Landscape -- Evidence on Remedial Assessment and Placement -- An Example of Institutional- and Classroom-Based Reform: Accelerating Developmental Education -- Accelerated Learning Program of the Community College of Baltimore County -- State-Based Examples of Developmental Education Reform -- California's Basic Skills Initiative -- Wholesale Developmental Education Reform in Virginia and NorthCarolina. -- Elimination of Traditional Remediation in Connecticut -- Reforming Assessment and Placement in Florida -- Discussion -- References.

5 Working Across the Segments: High Schools and the College Completion Agenda -- Colleges and the Common Core -- A Structure for the Process -- Three Stages to Alignment -- An Example of Successful Regional Alignment -- Alignment and College Completion -- References -- 6 Tuning Toward Completion -- Tuning USA -- Value to Community Colleges -- Early Tuning Efforts -- A Statewide Tuning Effort -- Building Success With Facilitation -- A National Discipline-Based Effort: The American Historical Association -- Tuning and College Completion -- References -- 7 Unmet Need and Unclaimed Aid: Increasing Access to Financial Aid for Community College Students -- Student Characteristics -- Does Financial Aid Make a Difference in Persistence and Completion? -- Do Institutional Practices Make a Difference? -- Concluding Thoughts -- References -- Index -- Other Titles -- Order Form -- House Ad.