Publications

This report, featuring four associated case studies, describes key strategies and practices undertaken by innovative dual enrollment partnerships; it concludes with lessons for integrating college coursework into existing career-focused high school programs.

Drawing on the administration of a multi-wave survey, this report describes how combining multi-channel communication, financial incentives, initial in-person classroom visits, technical coordination, and other measures can address survey recruitment and retention challenges.

Drawing on research, institutional case studies, and first-person narratives, this book presents five principles to guide the next phase of community college reform and help leaders forge lasting partnerships that improve outcomes for a broader group of students.

Based on research from "More Essential Than Ever" and other recent research, this brief shows how educational plans convert abstract choices into personalized roadmaps in order to improve student persistence, timely program completion, and long-term career success.

Using data from a multi-campus public college system, this brief shows that differences in first post-college jobs—primarily starting salaries—can explain two thirds or more of the Year 5 earnings gap between otherwise similar low- and high-SES graduates.

This tool and accompanying guide are designed to help community colleges assess the extent to which they have implemented at scale key practices for strengthening guided pathways, as laid out in CCRC's recent book.

This new fact sheet explores students' basic needs—including nutrition, housing, childcare, transportation, and healthcare—and provides policy considerations for improving basic needs supports.

This report revisits a randomized controlled trial of the CUNY ASAP program that began in 2010 and assesses the program's long-term impacts on educational attainment and labor market outcomes over fourteen years.

Drawing on data from interviews and site visits at three Texas community colleges and their partner high schools, this paper examines how college and high school staff navigate boundaries between their organizations and make decisions to support dual enrollment students and courses.

Drawing on examples from around the country, this policy brief identifies five strategies states can use to help colleges and school districts adopt and sustain purposeful dual enrollment practices that lead to greater opportunity for students.