A well-designed schedule is a powerful tool to support students’ timely completion. But how do colleges build them? And what are the opportunities for improvement and innovation? CCRC is launching a national survey to learn how community colleges navigate these complexities—and we want to hear from your institution.
In the second part of a series on how Onondaga Community College transformed their developmental education course structures, English professor Malkiel Choseed describes how the college integrated corequisite support for first-year composition into one credit-bearing course that contributed to improvements in overall course outcomes for all students.
A new report introduces a set of dual enrollment momentum metrics that capture participation and academic progress of high school dual enrollment students, and assesses how reliably these metrics predict postsecondary success. In this blog post, the report authors outline their findings.
In 2025, CCRC's dual enrollment research team recruited 11 current and former dual enrollment students to establish a student advisory panel. As the students on the first panel end their tenure, this blog post highlights some of their contributions.
In March 2025, CCRC was notified by the U.S. Department of Education that four of its grants from the Institute of Education Sciences had been terminated. This spring, three of the projects were reinstated. In this blog post, Thomas Brock gives an update on the reinstated projects.
In this webinar, CCRC researchers Amy Brown and Carl Lewandowski share research findings and tools used by four community colleges involved in a year-long community of practice to identify barriers students face in corequisite classes and develop practices to address them.
Two former dual enrollment students share how colleges and high schools can build community, a sense of belonging, and a college-going culture among dual enrollment students through clubs and student advisory panels focused on dual enrollment.
Learn how faculty at the Community College of Baltimore County have started thinking beyond success rates in their own courses toward the bigger goal of student completion by implementing cross-disciplinary microlessons to help students make connections between subjects.
Dual Enrollment Student Advisory Panel member Micah Laws writes about his experience as a legally blind student— including how navigating accommodations at the college level through his dual enrollment courses sharpened his self-advocacy skills— and outlines how high schools and colleges can better support disabled dual enrollment students.
Dual Enrollment Student Advisory Panel member Shorooq Omran reflects on her experiences in AP and dual enrollment courses at her Islamic high school and provides recommendations for more equitable dual enrollment design.
Advancing beyond an associate degree has long been a challenge for many early childhood educators. To address this challenge, Illinois is investing in transfer pathways and providing scholarships for early childhood educators.
Dual Enrollment Student Advisory Panel member Erika Rayo writes about her dual enrollment experience and how it helped alleviate some anxiety about her future by preparing her for college coursework.
Though it can be challenging to implement collaborative and relationship-building approaches in math, Hartnell College in California has succeeded in creating a department-wide environment where collaboration and support is the norm. Learn more about what Hartnell is doing in this blog post.
In a new video podcast, Veronica Minaya and Andrea Lopez Salazar compare notes from separate studies on the reasons students leave college and what community colleges can do to keep them enrolled, or to help them reenroll.
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