Opinion

May 7, 2025

More States Are Allowing Community Colleges to Offer Bachelor's Degrees

Davis Jenkins spoke about community colleges offering bachelor's degrees for an NPR story on rural students' access to higher education. The article also appeared in The Hechinger Report.

May 2, 2025

Collections on Defaulted Student Loans May Affect Millions of People's Credit Scores

ABC News spoke with Judith Scott-Clayton about what will happen to student loan borrowers who are delinquent on payments.

April 24, 2025

N.C. Community Colleges Want $100 Million to Remake Program Offerings

Maria Cormier spoke with The Assembly about a proposed funding model, Propel NC. Rather than allocating money among the 58 community colleges based on full-time course enrollment, the new model would fund programs designed to lead to high-demand jobs in their areas.

April 18, 2025

3 Strategies for Improving Upward Transfer

Inside Higher Ed reported on a CCRC report outlining recommendations to raise transfer outcomes for two-year college students.

April 17, 2025

Building on the Progress in Developmental Education Reform

Nikki Edgecombe, Julia Raufman, and Ellen Wasserman wrote about the evidence for co-requisite remediation and its potential to increase student success on Strong Start to Finish's blog.

April 17, 2025

The Next Frontier of Pathways

While guided pathways reforms to date have focused on removing barriers to completion, CCRC researchers proposed that colleges should focus more on students’ motivation. Community College Daily reported on the findings they presented at their 2025 AACC session.

April 16, 2025

Community College Research Center Lost More Than $12M in Federal Grants

Inside Higher Ed wrote about the loss of federal funding announced in a mid-April letter from CCRC's director and the impacts on CCRC's research.

April 15, 2025

CCRC Appeals Loss of Several Federal Grants

CCRC is appealing the Trump administration’s recent nixing of a handful of federal grants for projects that ranged from an in-depth look at the Federal Work-Study program and a statewide short-term job training program to a national research network, Community College Daily wrote.

April 14, 2025

STUDENT VOICE: I’m Thriving in My Dual-Enrollment Program, But It Could Be a Whole Lot Better

A dual enrollment student from Lake Nona High School in Orlando, FL wrote about three ways to improve dual enrollment programs in The Hechinger Report.

April 7, 2025

Linking Credentials to Earnings

Community College Daily wrote about a new CCRC report that connects credentials from community colleges with earnings, showing which types of degrees and certificates lead to good-paying jobs and careers—and which typically don’t.

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