The Institute for Higher Education Policy2019-08-022019-08-022014-11-01http://hdl.handle.net/10919/92665In an effort to support community-based collaborations among key sectors—education, business, policy, and nonprofit and community organizations—the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) is providing a series of primers that will help communities increase their postsecondary attainment. This primer explores the importance of raising the rates of persistence and completion among students who enter postsecondary programs, especially from underserved populations, by providing them with strong institutional and community supports. Each primer in the series will be followed by a tactical guidebook that provides further detail.application/pdfenCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationaleducational attainmentAcademic achievementcommunity-based collaborationminority studentsReporthttp://www.ihep.org/sites/default/files/uploads/docs/pubs/ihep_factsheet_postsecsupports.pdf