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Following the discussion with my focus group, I have engaged in further research and analysis with the goal of refining my topic area. I recognize that the conditions that may impact persistence and retention vary from one community college to the next as a result of underlying difference in structure, mission, faculty-student interaction, academic program and student population. I seek to focus on a specific area with the hope of gaining a greater understanding of the changing role of community colleges through time and practices that have yielded successful results with respect to transfer rates. I have selected to focus on the history of community colleges and its academic programs as a base for identifying conditions that work to increase persistence and retention within community colleges.

Furthermore, my group has also suggested that I refine my location but I feel that this may be difficult to do as the available data may be limited and I would like to develop a prescriptive report that can address the issues from a national standpoint rather than a localized position. Regardless, I have given these suggestions careful consideration and have found that CUNY colleges have implemented new initiatives, which include the College Discover Student Leadership Academy, a successful program that has bolstered transfer rates and has been converted into a full year program and the New Community College, the product of a concentrated effort on behalf of CUNY to bridge the education gap that resides and increase retention and transfer rates, where no-credit bearing remedial courses will be removed to be replaced with a curriculum that emphasis collaborative learning and advisement. I intend to study these programs further to evaluate to data that is available and if it would be possible to incorporate certain program from various regions that have worked further solidify the pathway to higher education.

I went over my bibliography, corrected some mistakes and decided to not use some of my references. Some of them are repetitive so Im going to end up leaving those from more reliable sources. Because I plan to focus on the political aspects of the rejection on the Kyoto accord, During writing I plan to make the following arguments: The bush administration favored their economic well being above the public health of American people. United States government does not prioritize the environmental protection of its country. These will be my main arguments and after writing in this direction for a while, I should have  a better idea about more specific arguments.

I really am frustrated with the bibliography process since  I cant seem to understand what kind of sources I have. besides that I dont know if they are peer reviewed. only way i can find out is if i specifically look for the peer reviewed articles on a database but then i dont find most of them useful. By now I mostly have non peer reviewed sources, which is not bad however the citation is probably the worst part of my college life. I understand that I need to cite my sources and I have no problem with the idea but the technical process of  periods and columns and capitalization is really unpleasant. I really hope my bibliography will be correct by sunday. I really dont want to look at the OWL website if I dont have to.

Besides that im learning a lot about my topic and  I like it to which is rare during research.

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