College While in High School: How Dual Credit Is Aiming for Equity

The expansion of dual credit programs across the country has offset the steep decline in community college enrollments that the pandemic magnified. But CCRC’s John Fink tells The Christian Science Monitor it’s not clear that replacing regular students with dually enrolled ones is a sustainable strategy for the struggling sector. If colleges hope to make up for their losses, Fink says, they’ll have to convince more high school students to continue their education after they graduate.