Supporting Achievement: Basic Needs Assistance Program at a Community College

The team at University of Southern California’s Pullias Center at the Rossier School of Education and Sol Price Center for Social Innovation designed a mixed-methods evaluation that includes document analysis, interviews with administrators and students, short text-based and online surveys, and student-level transcript data analysis that compares persistence and short-term academic outcomes between two pre-Basic Needs Assistance (BNA) cohorts of Los Angeles College Promise students and the first cohort of BNA Program. This report shares background information about LASC and its Promise Program, the methodology adopted for the evaluation, and findings from the qualitative and quantitative evaluation of the program.

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