California has put significant effort into connecting food-insecure college students to CalFresh (known nationally as SNAP) benefits. To support these efforts, the California Policy Lab partnered with state agencies and higher education systems to generate the first estimates of CalFresh participation and eligibility rates for California students.
In this podcast, WestEd's Jenna Terrell and CCRC's Maria Cormier discuss how the community colleges they are studying are developing programs and supports to serve their workforce students as they emerge from the COVID pandemic.
In May, researchers from the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University and the Pullias Center for Higher Education at the University of Southern California hosted a webinar sharing findings from an ongoing study being conducted in the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD).Â
Copper Mountain College and Cabrillo College in California are using pandemic relief funding to promote student success through early alert systems, which connects students to campus counselors. Whereas similar systems in the past were often under resourced, relief funding has given these colleges the capacity to support larger numbers of students with a broader set of resources.
This blog is the third in a series on the Wheelhouse Research Collaboration Council and focuses on how Higher Education Emergency Relief funding inspired efforts at Cosumnes River College to permanently eliminate textbook costs.
Researchers at CCRC are examining two workforce programs in Virginia to better understand how well these state-funded economic development investments leverage each other and how they can generate more equitable college attainment and labor market outcomes for individuals and communities.
Wheelhouse convened members of its Research Collaboration Council to discuss improving student and staff engagement on campus post-pandemic. This blog post highlights actions taken by three institutions.
The ARCC Network is led by the Community College Research Center, the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, and Wheelhouse: The Center for Community College Leadership and Research.
The ARCC Network lead team is supported by the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education, through Grant R305X220022 to Teachers College, Columbia University. The opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not represent views of the Institute or the U.S. Department of Education.
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The ARCC Network is led by the Community College Research Center, the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, and Wheelhouse: The Center for Community College Leadership and Research.
The ARCC Network lead team is supported by the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education, through Grant R305X220022 to Teachers College, Columbia University. The opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not represent views of the Institute or the U.S. Department of Education.
2023. All rights reserved.