ARCC Blog
Navigating the Path to Success or Drifting Off Course? Analyzing the Impacts of Online Course Formats in LACCD
Now that advances in technology and faculty training have enabled institutions to offer a broader variety of course modalities, administrators face critical decisions about how to balance the demand for online courses with concerns about the impact on student success. In the post-pandemic era, does online coursework continue to lower student academic performance?
Congress Made More College Students Eligible for Food Benefits During the Pandemic. Should Those Changes Be Permanent?
A recent analysis sheds light on how two COVID-era policy changes affected community college students' eligibility for grocery assistance benefits.
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.
Giving Students Input: Reflections on the G3 Student Advisory Group
Get a Job, Get a Skill, Get Ahead (G3) program Student Advisory Group members Jasmine Foreman and Caitlin Huynh sat down with Pascale Mevs from CCRC to discuss their experiences in G3 and why they joined the advisory group.
The Great Alignment? College and Student Responses to Virginia’s Workforce-Focused Free-College Initiative
This blog post shares takeaways from a recent working paper on how institutions and students responded to free-college messaging from Virginia's Get a Skill, Get a Job, Get Ahead (G3) initiative.
Most Eligible College Students Don’t Participate in SNAP. How Can Colleges Change That?
SNAP benefits can help college students pay for groceries, but barriers to access have created a large take-up gap. Learn about outreach strategies California community colleges have used to connect students with food benefits in this blog post.
How North Central Michigan College Used Pandemic Relief Funds to Keep Students Enrolled and Help Them Learn
North Central Michigan College was one of the 265 colleges in six states surveyed by the ARCC Network to understand how federal pandemic-recovery funding supported community colleges and their students. In this Q&A, North Central leaders answered questions about their experience during the pandemic and what comes next.
Supporting Course and Career Success: Results From Two Years of the Tennessee Coaching Project
The Tennessee Coaching Project is an initiative designed to provide additional support for students placed into corequisite learning support coursework. Results from the project's first two years provide evidence that access to course and career coaching promotes student success.
The Tennessee Coaching Project: Coaching for Careers
This blog post explores research derived from two new data tools developed by the TBR team and delves into how success coaches have been trained to incorporate career and labor market information into their work with students.
Video: How Community Colleges Spent Pandemic Relief Funds and What’s Next
In a June 26, 2024 webinar, researchers from the Community College Research Center and the Public Policy Institute of California discussed the findings and policy implications from two reports on how community colleges spent pandemic relief funds. A recording of the webinar is available in this blog post.
