Supporting Student Success in Online Courses: Insights from Students and Faculty

How can online college courses better support student motivation, engagement, and help-seeking behaviors? Join the Postsecondary Teaching with Technology Collaborative for a public webinar where we explore student experiences in online courses and new evidence-based strategies to address challenges students encounter in online formats.

CCRC Dives Into the Next Generation of Community College Research at DREAM 2025

In five sessions at DREAM, CCRC researchers and partners explained how they are working with colleges, state systems, and other organizations on the next generation of student success research.

Beyond Engagement: Promoting Motivation and Learning in Online Courses

This Postsecondary Teaching with Technology Collaborative brief examines how students develop and use self-directed learning (SDL) skills—motivational, metacognitive, and applied learning processes that enable them to sustain effort, reflect on progress, set goals, and adapt their study strategies.

Funding Community Colleges After HEERF

Using newly released institutional data from IPEDS, this blog post details how community college revenues have changed now that pandemic-related Higher Education Emergency Relief funds have ended.

The Postsecondary Outcomes of High School Dual Enrollment Students: A National and State-by-State Analysis

Using NSC data, this report presents national and state-by-state findings on the postsecondary enrollment and completion outcomes of high school students who began taking dual enrollment college courses in fall 2015, tracked for four years after high school.

Latest Research Findings

Strategies for Scaling Multiple Measures Assessment: Lessons from Arkansas

Hollie Daniels Sarica

Beyond Engagement: Promoting Motivation and Learning in Online Courses

Susan Bickerstaff, Akilah H. Thompson, Keena P. Walters & Jenivee Gastelum

The Net Benefits of Raising Bachelor’s Degree Completion Through CUNY’s ACE Program

Judith Scott-Clayton, Irwin Garfinkel, Elizabeth Ananat, Sophie Collyer, Robert Paul Hartley, Anastasia Koutavas, Buyi Wang & Christopher Wimer

Focus Areas

Dual Enrollment

Developmental Education

Guided Pathways

Advising & Student Supports

Teaching & Learning

Transfer

College to Career

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CCRC Dives Into the Next Generation of Community College Research at DREAM 2025

Engaging Faculty in Systemic Reforms Using the Inquiry and Action Model: A Q&A with Al Solano

Funding Community Colleges After HEERF

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