Student engagement with an academic support center during Covid-19

The challenge to improve academic achievement for community college students has generated concern for decades, with renewed emphasis during the Coronavirus Pandemic of 2020-2021, known as Covid-19 (Roueche, 1968; West & Fabre, 2021). National and local initiatives for student success have been launched with mixed results from a broad coalition of champions (Smith, Baldwin, & Schmidt, 2015). The challenge of succeeding in higher education for many students suggests that a corresponding demand for academic support services would exist, but that has not been the universal student response at every institution (Friedlander, 1980; Hendriksen, Yang, Love, & Hall, 2005). Research has demonstrated the efficacy of academic support services for students when used, dispelling most doubts about their utility (Center for Community College Student Engagement, CCCSE, 2012; Kostecki & Bers, 2008). This quantitative study is about factors that relate to student engagement with an academic support center during Covid-19. That support center is the Tutoring and Academic Skills Center (TASC) at College of the Desert (COD) in Palm Desert, California.

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Kansas State University

Year dc:date.issued

2021

Author dc:creator

• Aucutt, Daniel William

• Academic achievement
• Support services
• Student success
• Student engagement

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en_US

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https://hdl.handle.net/2097/41726

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oai:krex.k-state.edu:2097/41726