An Evaluation of Austin Community College’s Title III SIP Proposal

Principal Investigator

Greg Cumpton

Greg Cumpton, PhD

Project Duration

October 2015 to September 2021

Description

ACC proposes to establish an Office of Student Money Management (ACC-OSMM) – the office’s mission would be to give a stronger foundation to students’ academic and career goals and successes by helping them take charge of their financial futures.Two of the inaugural activities of ACC-OSMM will be:

  • to establish a system of sending text message reminders regarding annual Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) renewal to first-year college students who are already receiving financial aid, and
     
  • to enhance the main tool (Degree Map Online) that ACC counselors use to advise students to include ‘real time’ personalized financial aid information. This will improve integration of financial aid and loan awareness into student conversations with academic advisors and counselors.

ACC hopes to demonstrate that the activities of ACC-OSMM would be linked to improvements in measures of student success such as: graduation rate, time to completion, retention/persistence, and cohort loan default rate (CDR).  ACC will partner with the Ray Marshall Center (RMC) to perform an evaluation, both formative and summative, on the effectiveness of these efforts on the student outcome measures of interest.  Both types of evaluations provide actionable information about the success of the intervention while each successive cohort of recipients is in the process of receiving services, allowing for relatively rapid reflection and program modification as needed by ACC staff.   Both evaluations are intended to measure the implementation, aggregate outcomes, and the impact of these efforts on Full Time First Time in College (FTFIC) loan or Pell grant receiving students’ graduation rates, 3-year Cohort Default Rates (CDR), retention rates, and fall to fall persistence for those who are Pell eligible.  A host of intermediate steps related to these outcomes will also be measured.

Reports Available

Evaluation of ACC’s Strengthening Institutions Program Grant: Implementation Evaluation Report Through July 2021

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Authors: Cynthia Juniper, Greg Cumpton, and Ashweeta Patnaik
Date: September 2021
Publication Type: Report, 20pp. 

Evaluation of Austin Community College’s Strengthening Institutions Program Grant: Annual Outcomes and Impacts Report

This is the report cover for Evaluation of Austin Community College’s Strengthening Institutions Program Grant: Annual Outcomes and Impacts Report.

Authors: Ashweeta Patnaik, Greg Cumpton, and Cynthia Juniper
Date: September 2021
Publication Type: Report, 35pp.

Evaluation of Austin Community College’s Strengthening Institutions Program Grant: Implementation Evaluation Report Through July 2020
Authors: Cynthia Juniper, Greg Cumpton, and Ashweeta Patnaik
Date: August 2020
Publication Type: Report, 33pp. 

Evaluation of Austin Community College’s Strengthening Institutions Program Grant: Annual Outcomes and Impacts Report
Authors: Ashweeta Patnaik and Greg Cumpton
Date: August 2020
Publication Type: Report, 38pp. 

Evaluation of Austin Community College’s Strengthening Institutions Program Grant: Implementation Evaluation Findings Through July 2019
Authors: Cynthia Juniper and Greg Cumpton
Date: August 2019
Publication Type: Report, 32pp.

Evaluation of Austin Community College’s Strengthening Institutions Program Grant: Annual Outcomes and Impact Report
Authors: Ashweeta Patnaik and Greg Cumpton
Date: August 2019
Publication Type: Report, 25pp.

Evaluation of Austin Community College’s Strengthening Institutions Program Grant: Implementation Evaluation Findings Through July 2018
Authors: Cynthia Juniper and Greg Cumpton
Date: November 2018
Publication Type: Report, 41pp.

Evaluation of Austin Community College’s Strengthening Institutions Program Grant: Annual Outcomes and Impact Report
Authors: Ashweeta Patnaik and Greg Cumpton
Date: August 2018
Publication Type: Report, 26pp.

Austin Community College Student Money Management – Implementation Evaluation: Program Description and Timeline
Authors: Cynthia Juniper, Greg Cumpton, and Ashweeta Patnaik
Date: June 2017
Publication Type: Report, 18pp.

Evaluation of ACC-SIP Initiatives: Baseline Assessment
Date: June 2017
Publication Type: Report, 18pp.