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Global Skills for College Completion
Welcome to the website of Global Skills for College Completion (GSCC), a national project devoted to harnessing the experience of college faculty and the power of social media to dramatically boost the pass rates of basic skills students, potentially allowing graduation rates in U.S. colleges to soar.
Why focus on basic skills?
- 40% – 60% of students enter U.S. community colleges lacking college-ready skills in reading, writing, and mathematics.
- While basic skills courses should remedy this gap, approximately 40% of eligible students skip or fail these courses.
We know that we can restore the promise of college graduation for the great majority of students by raising that basic skills pass rate from 40% to 80%, a change that would alter the landscape of U.S. college graduation rates and the future of so many of our students.
Who can help, and how?
We believe that community college basic skills faculty possess all the wisdom necessary to double pass rates, given the right tools. We are creating such tools by using social media to bring 26 faculty together to share and study their practice in entirely new ways.
We have created a Guided Digital Environment for their work and provided a set of Tools and Routines to support them. The data they generate through this process is allowing our research team to begin to identify the Themes and Patterns that hope to link to improved student outcomes.
This website aims to make public this process of knowledge gathering, sharing our innovative online tools and routines and reporting insights along the way. We invite you to find out more about our experiment, blending social media, classroom innovation, thousands of points of taggable data, and a community of committed basic skills faculty on campuses across the nation.