CCRRA - Improving the Pipeline for Community College Transfer Students

US Department of Education CCRAA

The goals of this project are to:

1. Increase the number of Science majors at NJCU; and
2. improve the persistence, retention and graduation rates of Science majors at NJCU.

These goals will be achieved through the implementation of the following activities:

Activity One: Increasing enrollment through capacity-building within NJCU's Science major programs. Njcu will increase its capacity to educate incoming "completer" students through:

1. increased and improved capacity for teaching sciences;
2. curricular revision and alignment, both across NJCU Science departments and with "feeder" community colleges;
3. standardization and dissemination of Science department websites. We expect to attract significantly more NJCU Science majors by attracting additional "completer" students. Curricular alignment will reduce curriculum-centered obstacles for entering "completer" and other student populations at NJCU, and increase student persistence in Science programs at NJCU.

Activity Two: Improving persistence, retention and graduation among Science majors at NJCU. Through:

1. cohort-tracking of "completer" students with the Student Early Alert System (SEAS);
2. supplemental instruction for "completers" in upper-level Science courses;
3. Science-specific advisement for entering "completer" students; and
4. opportunities for "completers" to participate in mentored research and scientific meetings, NJCU will improve retention and graduation rates of Science major "completer" students.

Students inteterested on working as tutors, please contact:

Dr. William Montgomery
New Jersey City University
Department of Geosciences/Gepgraphy
Rossey Hall 608
2039 Kennedy Boulevard
Jersey City, NJ 07305

Students interested on conducting research, please contact:

Dr. Kenneth Yamaguchi
New Jersey City University
Department of Chemistry
2039 Kennedy Boulevard
Jersey City, NJ 07305