Press Releases
Transforming Community Colleges to Accelerate Postsecondary Success for Low-Income Young AdultsCCRC begins a multi-study research project to inform the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Postsecondary Success initiative.
Hechinger Institute Fellow Recognized for Community College SeriesContra Costa Times reporter Matt Krupnick receives special citation from the Education Writers Association for a four-part series on California’s community colleges.
 
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News Articles
Community Colleges Try New Formula for Remedial ClassesAn article in USA TODAY discusses how state policy might foster more effective remediation.
States Fail in Their Attempts to Pay Colleges to PerformThe Chronicle of Higher Education highlights CCRC's symposium on performance-based financing, which was given at this year's AERA conference.
 
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Did You Know?
Dual enrollment, in which high school students enroll in a college-level course and potentially earn college credit, is widespread. During the 2002-2003 academic year, seventy-one percent of public high schools offered dual enrollment opportunities, and approximately 813,000 high school students participated.

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The following CCRC staff members gladly provide information to the media:


Thomas R. Bailey
George and Abby O’Neill Professor of Economics and Education & Director, Institute on Education and the Economy, Teachers College, Columbia University


the economics of education

educational policy, especially higher education and workforce development

educational training implications of changes in the workplace

work-based learning

occupational education

community college related topics

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community college missions

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persistence, graduation and other student educational outcomes

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institutional research

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the economic value of community college education and degrees

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dual enrollment

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for profit educational institutions



James Jacobs
CCRC Advisory Board Member

President, Macomb Community College


community college organizational structure, finance and missions

workforce development and workforce education

workforce development and public policy

adult basic education and community colleges 

state community college administration

Perkins, WIA and other federal legislation

innovation at community colleges

faculty union contracts, collective bargaining

governance



Katherine L. Hughes
Assistant Director for Work and Education Reform Research


secondary-to-postsecondary transitions (programs and policies)

dual enrollment (effectiveness of programs and policies)

high school reform

high school career and technical education

work-based learning

 


Davis Jenkins

Senior Research Associate


education for employment in a global economy

labor market outcomes of education

education and economic development

postsecondary access and attainment of disadvantaged youth and adults

community college related topics:

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measuring institutional effectiveness

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institutional research and evaluation

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strategic planning and budgeting

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developmental education

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baccalaureate transfer

secondary-to-postsecondary transitions

adult basic education and English-as-a-second language for low-literate adults



Melinda Mechur Karp
Senior Research Associate


secondary-postsecondary transitions

dual enrollment and other credit-based transition programs

school-to-work

career and technical education

high school reform

 



For general media inquiries, please contact:


Lisa Rothman

Associate Director

Finance, Administration, and Communications


Email:  ccrc@columbia.edu

Tel:  212-678-3091

Fax:  212-678-3699

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