Persistence Project Professors

are Caring Campus Faculty

A faculty driven initiative

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This website is designed to support our Las Positas College community with information to increase the persistence of our students from semester to semester. 

What is the Persistence Project?

Our project was created in Fall 2020 as a component of Guided Pathways and developed through grassroots faculty collaboration.   After a "Leading from the Middle" session highlighted a similar project at Oakton Community College in Des Plaines, Illinois, faculty at Las Positas College decided to engage in a similar one of our own. By introducing several engagement strategies into our teaching practice, our goal is to build human connection, improve student persistence (i.e. enrolling each subsequent semester), and enhance faculty satisfaction.

LPC is a “Caring Campus” college!  

Our Classified Professionals applied on behalf of  LPC and our college was accepted into the Institute for Evidence-Based Change’s program. The goal of Caring Campus is to increase student persistence and success in community colleges by creating and cultivating caring environments through the intentional inclusion of all staff in student belonging and success efforts.  For more information about the Caring Campus impact on equity and achievement gap by creating creating campuses where all students—including non-majority students—feel connected and cared for, please visit the Institute for Evidence-Based Change website.

The Institute for Evidence-Based Change identified top behavioral commitments that faculty can do to increase student belonging and persistence and success in community college.  Not suprisingly, many of these activities are ones we have already embraced in our own faculty-driven Persistence Project!