Student success is a top priority of community colleges today. Most efforts focus on academic reforms geared toward traditional students. A new policy brief by The Working Poor Families Project suggests that more emphasis should be placed on non-academic support targeted to low-income adults at community colleges, especially student parents. The brief offers a four-part framework of non-academic supports and services for low-income adult students and makes state policy recommendations to help ensure that non-academic supports are integrated into community college success efforts.
