The Rp Group Inc.

Filing Period

Jul 1, 2011 to Jun 30, 2012

Signed

May 13, 2013

Return Version

2011v1.2

Gross Receipts

$1,354,623

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Grants- developed a framework for investigating the efficacy of student support efforts, with an emphasis on interventions that are more likely to increase success for african-american and latino students.- investigated elements that affect transfer in engineering, nursing, teacher education, administration of justice and accounting, and shared this information with community college practitioners, students, and other transfer stakeholders.- evaluated the impact of a linked learning program, designed to improve student academic and work-based outcomes.

Activity 3

Contracts- conducted site visits at finalist colleges for the aspen prize in community college excellence to assess the efficacy of local practices and document approaches that are useful for other community college practitioners. - supported the california community colleges student success task force to gather input on student success-related issues from community members and facilitated a planning retreat.- researched student services-related issues such as student success courses, uniform cut scores, and online educational planning for the california community colleges chancellors office to inform their response to the task force on student success recommendations. - support colleges participating in the completion by design initiative in using evidence to redesign their practices so that the colleges increase the rates at which students enter and successfully complete programs of study.- developed working papers based on site visits to colleges, documenting the state of basic skills education in california after the significant investment of basic skills initiative funding.- developed and implemented a statewide study to collect information on the jobs that career and technical program participants are able to secure, to improve understanding the impact of these programs. - developed a web-based report that allows california community colleges to track cohorts of basic skills students and obtain information on those students' progression, disaggregated by ethnicity and other factors.- conducted research, provided evaluations, or offered technical assistance to 28 additional programs addressing ways to improve the effectiveness of community colleges.

Filer

EIN

94-3207140