The Mixed Methods Blog

A recent report on community college workforce programs identified a gap between how colleges represented their programs and what students encountered on job sites. Insights shared in this study shed light on student concerns with short-term workforce training programs and implications for public policy.

How can community and technical colleges adapt their practices to prepare the workforce for a shift toward sustainable energy? An event brought together higher education researchers and community college workforce leaders to address this question.

What factors might cause community college students to pause their studies? And what motivates them to return? Summer intern Lauren Lawler explores these questions and reflects on her personal experience as a community college student.

Last week, the U.S. Department of Education released new data that, for the first time ever, provide college-level counts of the number of high school dual enrollment students, disaggregated by race/ethnicity and gender. John Fink details a first look at this new information, which represents years of effort among dozens of organizations pushing for better dual enrollment data.

In this blog post, researchers from the Aspen Institute and CCRC share takeaways from their work with ten community colleges and introduce tools designed to help colleges increase the number of students on a path toward high-value programs.