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By David Glenn in the Students column of The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 11, 2011. A Q&A with Rosemary Capps, who studied 9 community college students for her dissertation, which won an award at AERA. In this Q&A, Capps discusses the importance of developmental education, and how these teachers often made a real difference to the students that she studied.

By Rosemary Capps, August 2010. In this dissertation, Capps looks deeply at the persistence of 9 adult learners in a community college, while also looking at the literature of persistence, demographic surveys, etc.