College Outreach Efforts and Matriculation

Paper Summary:

The paper discusses how the Merced Community College District (MCCD) seeks to attract and maintain a student body in order to create a college community that is socially and culturally diverse. The college has allocated funds to assign a student ambassador at the local high schools within its jurisdiction, on a weekly basis, to facilitate this process. The paper explains that the purpose of this study is to relate college applications completed by high school students to weekly college outreach efforts. More specifically, the researcher hopes to uncover a link between college outreach efforts and matriculation among high school students. The researcher assumes a positive relationship between matriculation and college outreach efforts will be discovered.

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Introduction
Review of the Literature
Methodology

From the Paper:

"College outreach is designed to recruit students to matriculate at a post-secondary institution. The Merced Community College District (MCCD) seeks to attract and maintain a student body in order to create a college community that is socially and culturally diverse (MCCD, 2006). There are many reasons for this. As an example, ethnic diversity fosters the examined life, prepares students for citizenship in a global society and enriches opportunities for underrepresented students (Niemann & Maruyama, 2005, Rodriguez, Jones, Pang, & Park, 2004). College outreach is accomplished through strategic outreach methods designed to encourage students who are graduating from high school to become matriculated."

Sample of Sources Used:

• American Heritage Dictionary. (2004). "Outreach." American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company.
• Beswick, J.F., Sloak, E.A. & Willms, J.D. (2005). A comparative study of teacher ratings of emergent literacy skills and student performance on standardized measures. Education, 126(1): 116.
• Casas, J., Sniezek, J. (1984). Profiling an invisible minority in higher education: the Chicana. Personnel & Guidance Journal.
• CCCCO. (2006). California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office. Retrieved July 27, 2006: http://www.ccco.edu/
• Denner, J., Cooper, C. R., Dunbar, N., & Lopez, E. M. (2005). Latinos in a college outreach program: Application, selection, and participation. Journal of Latinos and Education, 4 (1), 21-41.

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