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Institutional and Student Responses to Free College: Evidence From Virginia
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.
Increasing Access to High-Demand Occupational Training: An Exploration of G3’s Recruitment and Enrollment Strategies
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.
Pandemic Relief Spending and Recovery Strategies: Findings From a Survey of Community Colleges in Six States
Pandemic Relief Spending and Recovery Strategies: Findings From a Survey of Community Colleges in Six States
CCRC | June 2024
This report describes pandemic recovery activities community colleges implemented with federal Higher Education Emergency Relief (HEER) funds, colleges’ perceptions of how successful the funds were in addressing student and institutional needs during the pandemic, and colleges’ views of unmet needs.
How HEER Funding Rescued Community Colleges From the Pandemic
How HEER Funding Rescued Community Colleges From the Pandemic
CCRC | March 2024
Using financial data from IPEDS, this brief examines what happened to community college revenue and student aid during the pandemic and assesses the importance of Higher Education Emergency Relief (HEER) funding for community colleges and their students.
Pandemic Relief Funding Dashboard
Pandemic Relief Funding Dashboard
CCRC | October 2023
An interactive Tableau dashboard presents publicly available award and spending data on HEER Funds from the Education Stabilization Fund (ESF) Transparency Portal. Users are able to examine funding and spending trends at community colleges across the country by region, state, and other institutional characteristics.
Pandemic Relief Funding for Community Colleges
Pandemic Relief Funding for Community Colleges
CCRC | June 2023
In response to the pandemic, over $75 billion of federal money was directed to institutions of higher education through the Higher Education Emergency Relief (HEER) Funds. This brief describes the broad purposes of the funds, and it provides a first look at how much funding was awarded to and spent by the nation’s community colleges between March 2020 and February 2023.
Catastrophe or Catalyst? Reflections on COVID’s Impact on Community Colleges
Catastrophe or Catalyst? Reflections on COVID’s Impact on Community Colleges
CCRC | December 2021
This essay discusses how students and community colleges responded to the pandemic and what their experiences reveal about inequities in higher education.
