How CCBC’s Math and English Faculty Are Building a Bridge for Student Success

How CCBC's Math and English Faculty Are Building a Bridge for Student Success
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.

How Disabled Dual Enrollment Students Can Succeed and How High Schools and Colleges Can Better Support Them

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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.

Access Without Infrastructure: My Experience With AP and Dual Enrollment in a Faith-Based School

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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.

Reducing Stress in College Through Dual Enrollment Programs

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.

From Lone Wolf to Peer Support: The Power of Math Collaboration at Hartnell College

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.

What Dual Credits Are Lost When Transferring, and Why?

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Using new data from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, this blog post offers insights on which dual enrollment courses apply to degree programs when former dual enrollment students transfer from community colleges to public universities.

Most Community College Students Don’t Have a Plan—Here’s a Tool and Five Strategies to Help Change That

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This blog post introduces an updated version of the Community College Program Mapper—a practical data tool designed to help colleges see which students are on a path to success and which are not, and to guide colleges to strengthen supports for students to explore and plan a program of study aligned with their education and career aspirations.

What Happens When Placement Goes Away? Inside Onondaga’s Dev Ed Transformation

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Is noncredit developmental education really helping students? English professor Malkiel Choseed explores what happened when Onondaga Community College did away with developmental English courses and implemented corequisite courses, which allowed all incoming students to earn college credit for their first-year composition courses.

Head Start or Final Destination: How Dual Enrollment Can Shape College Choices

In this blog post, the first in a series written by dual enrollment students, Sebastian Sarmiento of Texas A&M International University discusses how his dual enrollment experience influenced his decision to attend college locally rather than away from home.

Ohio Strong Start in Science: Removing Barriers in STEM

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Introductory science courses too often function as bottlenecks rather than gateways to high-demand STEM and health careers. Ohio Strong Start in Science seeks to transform introductory science courses to help more students succeed on their first attempt.

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