Community colleges are often more accessible than four-year universities in terms of costs and schedule flexibility, but accessibility alone isn’t enough. Summer intern Helen Kim writes about her community college experience and how colleges can design courses that work with students' busy lives.
More community colleges are incorporating themes of sustainability into their general education courses. Learn how an environmental biology course at Mesa Community College in Arizona is incorporating themes of climate action to encourage students to engage with complex, real-world issues in this blog post.
Researchers explore new students’ decision-making process around programs and careers through a study conducted in partnership with four community colleges in California, Maryland, Ohio, and Texas.
CCRC intern Melissa Cruz Duque examines two CUNY pathways for English learners: the intensive English Language Immersion Program (CLIP) and traditional academic ESL courses.
How does dance education function in the community college setting? Dance instructor Heather Dougherty shares what she learned from surveying dance instructors at community colleges across the country.
Community college faculty are finding creative ways to infuse climate literacy into students' required courses. In this blog post, Achieving the Dream's Bret Eynon explores how instructors are addressing climate topics in their classrooms.
CCRC is studying how colleges in the Louisiana Community and Technical College System are designing and delivering corequisite models in practice and how students and faculty are experiencing these changes.
To facilitate high school students earning college credit, postsecondary and K-12 educators must collaborate to make decisions about dual enrollment course offerings. In a new CCRC working paper, the authors examined variation in dual enrollment partnerships across Texas and estimated how characteristics of these partnerships predict student success.
As high school dual enrollment continues to expand across the country, an increasing number of students are taking their early college coursework online. In this blog post, CCRC researchers share strategies for implementing online dual enrollment courses in a way that mitigates the risk of sacrificing course quality for access.
Five years after the onset of the pandemic, students enrolled in online classes are still reporting a lack of social connection and feelings of isolation. CCRC researcher Akilah Thompson shares strategies in this blog post to help students feel more engaged, confident, and human in their online courses.
