Community College Programs That Prepare Students for Post-Completion Success

A new CCRC report examines data on what degrees and certificates community colleges nationally are awarding and which of those programs are more likely to enable students to secure good jobs directly or transfer efficiently to a bachelor’s degree program in students’ major fields of interest.

Teaching Community College Students to Be Versatile Learners: An Imperative for Ensuring Post-Completion Success

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CCRC's forthcoming book features a chapter on the critical role of teaching and learning in community college efforts to strengthen pathways to post-completion success. This blog post, the third in a series, offers takeaways from the chapter on how community colleges can ensure students gain the practical skills needed for success in employment and future education.

Reimagining Program Recruitment and Onboarding Using the Ask-Connect-Inspire-Plan Framework

To reimagine program onboarding, colleges must shift its purpose from a process focused on acquainting students with campus policies and procedures to one that helps students choose an initial direction and develop an academic plan to meet their goals.

On Path and On Schedule: Strategies for Prioritizing Time to Completion for Community College Students

The authors of CCRC's forthcoming book offer strategies to increase community college completion rates by ensuring students are on paths to fulfill academic requirements in as little time and at as little cost as possible.

How State Systems Can Help Scale Student Success Reforms

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One challenge to improving community college student success is how to scale and sustain systemic reforms across multiple institutions. In this blog post, the authors of CCRC's forthcoming book share lessons from their evaluation of statewide guided pathways reforms and offer strategies for putting next-frontier innovations into practice.

Letter From the Director: Loss of Federal Funding to CCRC

On March 7, CCRC was notified by the U.S. Department of Education that four of its grants from the Institute of Education Sciences had been terminated. In this blog post, Thomas Brock describes the scope of the cancelled projects and the effects of the federal funding loss.

Who Has Access to Dual Enrollment and AP Coursework at Your Local Schools?

An interactive dashboard draws on multiple years of CRDC data to provide a school- and district-level view of dual enrollment and Advanced Placement access, disaggregated by students’ race/ethnicity, English language learner status, and disability status. The dashboard is meant to help college and K-12 educators as they strengthen and expand dual enrollment programs.

Introducing the Community College Awards and Earnings Tracker

CCRC's latest data tool shows community college awards by field alongside associated earnings and awardee demographics at national, state, and institutional levels. This dashboard can help community colleges and state systems consider which of their programs put students on paths to post-completion success.

A New Partnership to Explore How Community Colleges Are Preparing the New Energy Workforce: Meet Allison Moe From the National Renewable Energy Laboratory

To help community colleges retool their workforce programs to adapt to changes in the energy sector, it’s important to understand what colleges are already doing. CCRC researchers spoke with Allison Moe, a research project manager at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, about connecting with community and technical colleges and the potential impacts of a new CCRC study.

CCRC Dives Into the Next Generation of Community College Research at DREAM 2025

In five sessions at DREAM, CCRC researchers and partners explained how they are working with colleges, state systems, and other organizations on the next generation of student success research.

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