| This research examines the First Year Initiative Program's impact on students' success rate in two developmental education courses and the students' semester to semester enrollment at a multi-campus community college. Four learning communities were observed at three college locations.;A multi-campus two year college in the North Atlantic region of the United States of America was examined, where the variable that best explains student retention or conversely attrition is the number of developmental courses enrolled. If a student enrolls in three developmental courses, their probability of academic achievement and retention falls significantly (The Community College, 2013). At TCC 40% of first-time full-time students leave one year after their initial enrollment.;Findings were that 84 % of students' enrolled in the First Year Inititaive/Learning Community (FYI) model re-enrolled in the College compared to 67% of students' eligible but did not enroll in the First Year Initiative/Learning Community model. Overall, 94.6% of the students' grades who were eligible but did not enroll in the FYI model indicated success in both developmental reading and developmental math, compared to 91.5% of the FYI student grades. |
