The article provides a blueprint of how a mid-sized community college in the midst of coping with increasing enrollment and scarce resources was able to improve dramatically its services to new enrolling students via the One-Stop Shop Initiative. The article will introduce the theoretical framework and its practical use within the community college setting.
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