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This project explicitly works to "disrupt the cycle of poverty" with a blended learning approach for targeted students in New York State to "catch up" and "complete" their educations. The project includes "an enhanced developmental math course and a Blended Online degree program."

This project is a Wave 1 grantee.

By Josh Baron and Kim Thanos, Educause Quarterly (EQ), vol 34(4), 2011. This paper looks at two projects -- Kaleidoscope, which works with OERs and OAII, which looks at academic analytics -- and imagines how they might work together to "facilitate a cost-effective systemic approach to address the challenge of college completion."

Both projects (Cerritos College and Marist College) are wave 1 grantees.

A Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE) project. "NANSLO provides a technological solution that will address many of the barriers that prevent low-income, first generation college students who are at risk of failing to complete their degrees or pursue science-based careers due to challenges such as work and family obligations or living in rural areas that limit their access to traditional classes."

NANSLO is a Wave 1 grantee.

Project pages for OAAI, which hopes to "develop, deploy and release an open-source ecosystem for academic analytics designed to increase student content mastery, semester-to-semester persistence and degree completion in postsecondary education."

OAAI is a wave 1 grantee.

With the tagline, Do It In Four, STAR is a student support system to help University of Hawaii undergraduates complete their education in 4 years. They system is web-based and, with tracking, helps students identify potential problem situations with their schoolwork, before the problems escalate.

STAR is a wave 1 grantee.

By Russ Little in Educause Qurarterly (EQ), vol 34 (4), 2011. Student Success Plan is case-management software used by Sinclair Community College to improve student retention and college completion rates. This paper describes the project, as well as plans to expand services beyond Sinclair.

Student Success Plan is a wave 1 grantee.