Academic Coaches Help Students Finish Community College

Success Coach Latasha Wiley, left, helps first-year student Amare Porter, right, with her class schedule at Chattahoochee Valley Community College's advising center on Feb. 23, 2023, in Phenix City, Alabama.

Two-year community colleges, which serve many of the students who need the most support, have the lowest completion rates of any kind of university or college, The Associated Press reported.

The availability of advisers, students say, is often a deciding factor in who succeeds, the AP says in its story. (April 2023)