Publications
Transfer Enrollment and Pathways: Fall 2024 Report
NSC Research Center | March 2025
This report combines information on current term transfer rates with data on community college students who reach transfer and completion milestones within six years. Detailed data on postsecondary participation, mobility, and progress among economically disadvantaged students is included, as well as disaggregated data on disparities in pandemic recovery and transfer outcomes across differing student and institutional characteristics.
How Much Do College Students Get from CalFresh Each Month?
California Policy Lab | February 2025
This policy brief explores how much university and community college students received in CalFresh benefits each month before and after the start of the pandemic. The authors find that temporary federal policy changes during the pandemic nearly doubled benefit amounts for UC undergraduates and California community college students.
Current Term Enrollment Estimates: Fall 2024
NSC Research Center | January 2025
This report uses interactive data dashboards to provide the latest college enrollment estimates and detailed information on enrollment by credential level, age, and major field. The updated data also provide information on students immediately enrolling after high school, institutions’ share of Pell recipients, students’ neighborhood income, and more.
Trends in Community College Enrollment and CalFresh Eligibility During the COVID-19 Pandemic
California Policy Lab | January 2025
This policy brief describes how eligibility for CalFresh changed among community college students because of broader college enrollment changes during the height of the pandemic and due to the temporary eligibility changes Congress made to SNAP.
Many California Community College Students Are Eligible For—But Not Receiving—CalFresh Benefits
California Policy Lab | December 2024
Using a linked database of student-level administrative data on college enrollment, financial aid, and CalFresh participation, this brief estimates how many California community college students are eligible for CalFresh, how many students are taking up those benefits, and how many are missing out.
Institutional and Student Responses to Free College: Evidence From Virginia
CCRC | September 2024
Using administrative data, this paper analyzes Get a Skill, Get a Job, Get Ahead (G3)—a free community college initiative that Virginia implemented in 2021—and shows that both institutions and students responded to the tuition-free messaging and eligibility criteria.
Examining Labor Market Variation in CTE Sectors: Evidence From Florida
WestEd | September 2024
Analysis in this brief shows that labor market indicators commonly used by CTE providers in Florida vary widely by program area and geographical region; it also illustrates disparate impacts of the pandemic by examining changes in labor market demand in CTE occupations over time.
Supporting Pandemic Recovery Through the Tennessee Coaching Project
TBR—The College System of Tennessee | August 2024
This brief describes a project that uses individualized coaching to enhance corequisite learning support in students’ first year, research designs for the project's evaluation, key findings from the first two years of implementation, and next steps.
Portraits of Resilience: Southern California Community College Students Navigating Challenges Amid the Pandemic
Wheelhouse | July 2024
Drawing on narratives by five community college students, this brief offers insights into the evolving challenges students faced during and after the pandemic and discusses how colleges can address student needs in the post-pandemic period.
Increasing Access to High-Demand Occupational Training: An Exploration of G3’s Recruitment and Enrollment Strategies
CCRC | July 2024
This brief uses enrollment and outcome data as well as interview data from eight colleges implementing the Get A Skill, Get A Job, Get Ahead (G3) program to examine college-level G3 outreach, recruitment, and enrollment strategies and the process for awarding G3 aid.
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