General Goals

The larger goal of our efforts will be to develop simple, effective, low cost techniques that allow universities to bring a realistic university experience to community college students. By those means we intend to achieve a number of objectives:

• Improve access, retention, and completion by providing more accurate information and personal experiences on which to base career choices, as well as increase the students' practical and psychological readiness for a university education.
• Reduce cost by reducing the time in residence at the universities, with their significant overhead, as well as reduce the total time to graduation.
• Provide simple, effective tools to expand the access and visibility of universities for students in community colleges and elsewhere, and thus increase university enrollment.