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?
A recent analysis sheds light on how two COVID-era policy changes affected community college students' eligibility for grocery assistance benefits.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
2025. All rights reserved.
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.