Publications
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.
“We Will Not Go Back to What We Had”: Faculty’s Efforts to Deliver Effective Distance Education in the Los Angeles Community College District
Center for Education Policy Research | August 2023
In response to student demand that arose during the pandemic, the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) has modified its course offerings to allow for more online and hybrid options. This brief examines faculty reactions to the use of a variety of course modality options.
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.
The High School to College Pathway: Enrollment & Success for Recent High School Graduates at Tennessee Community Colleges
TBR—The College System of Tennessee | March 2023
This dashboard tracks trends in community college enrollment, selection of academic focus area, and student success across several metrics over the last decade. It allows users to filter the data by community college, high school region, K-12 district, high school, race and ethnicity, Pell recipient status, number of learning supports needed, and full or part-time enrollment status.
Transfer and Progress: Fall 2022 Report
NSC Research Center | March 2023
This report combines information on current term transfer rates with data on community college students who reach transfer and completion milestones within six years. It also expands on previous transfer reports with additional levels of disaggregation and introduces a new experimental measure of students’ income background. An accompanying data dashboard is available.
Current Term Enrollment Estimates: Fall 2022 (Expanded Edition)
NSC Research Center | February 2023
This dashboard-based report provides the latest college enrollment estimates and features new analyses of race and ethnicity, undergraduate and graduate enrollment by major field at the state level, and institutional selectivity.
Pandemic-Period Enrollment and Persistence in California Community Colleges
Wheelhouse | August 2022
This infographic illustrates changes in student enrollment and persistence in the first 18 months of the pandemic.
Reminder Postcards and Simpler Emails Encouraged College Students to Apply for CalFresh
California Policy Lab | August 2022
This policy brief describes an experiment to test the relative effectiveness of different messages and modes of communication in increasing the number of students who applied for and eventually enrolled in CalFresh.
Emailing College Students and the Impact on CalFresh Applications
California Policy Lab | August 2022
This policy brief describes an experiment to test the impact of email outreach on increasing the number of students who applied for and eventually enrolled in CalFresh.
California Community College and University of California Student Participation in CalFresh Food Benefits
California Policy Lab | February 2022
This data point provides estimates of the rates at which California Community College system and University of California students participate in CalFresh.
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