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Acknowledgements
The New Visions demonstration has benefited from an unusually strong dedication to evaluation on the part of the leadership and staff at Riverside Community College (RCC) and Riverside County’s Department of Public Social Services (DPSS).
At RCC, the authors would like to thank the following former and current administrators and staff for their strong support of, and participation in, the evaluation: Greg Aycock, Shelagh Camak, Sandy Foster, Colleen Molko, Sal Rotella, David Torres, and Joan Wells. We are grateful also to the RCC instructors and staff who participated in interviews and helped with data collection for the study. We owe a special debt to the New Visions students who shared their experiences with us in interviews.
Current and former DPSS administrators and staff also provided superb support for this evaluation. We would like to thank in particular Stephanie Beckett, Dennis Boyle, Cynthia Hinckley, Nancy Presser, Ron Quinn, John Rodgers, and Jeremy Samsky. We also thank the DPSS case managers and other staff who helped to implement random assignment and collect data for the project.
For financial support, we are grateful to the Administration for Children and Families, Office of Policy Research and Evaluation at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. We thank especially ACF’s Lenny Sternbach and Nancye Campbell, for their guidance and support throughout the demonstration, and Peter Germanis, for his comments on an earlier draft of this report.
Judy Reichle, formerly of the California Chancellor for Community College’s Office, and her staff were very helpful in providing statewide data on community college enrollment and arranging a stimulating discussion with the CCCCO’s advisory group. Max Elsman of Cygnet Associates deserves kudos for his role in formulating a New Visions marketing strategy.
Finally, we would like to acknowledge the fine contributions of a variety of wonderful former and current Abt Associates staff. Particularly deserving of our appreciation are: Juliana Horowitz, Wang Lee, and Ozan Jaquette for assistance with data analyses; Anne Robertson, David Long, and Jesse Valente for contributions to fieldwork and earlier project reports; Denise Young for help preparing this document; and Judy Alamprese and Chris Hamilton for valuable comments on an earlier draft of this report.
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