• October 28, 2026

Six Colleges Show How to Scale Career and Academic Planning

How can colleges help entering students explore their career and academic interests and develop personalized educational plans? Hana Lahr and Davis Jenkins share lessons learned from six colleges and steps colleges can take to rethink the organization of staff and how they use technology to recruit and onboard students in this CCDaily commentary.

• October 23, 2026

Dual Enrollment Is Surging. Here’s How High Schools Can Get it Right

More high schoolers than ever are taking college courses. CCRC's John Fink explains what strong programs do well in EdWeek.

• October 20, 2026

Can Career-Focused College Pathways Help Reverse Enrollment Worries?

Davis Jenkins said in The EDU Ledger that while dual enrollment is a promising practice for boosting college enrollment rates, it must be done in a more intentional way that aligns coursework with careers.

• October 19, 2026

Connecting Dual Enrollment to Career Training

Sarah Griffin spoke with Inside Higher Ed about lessons from a recent CCRC report on career-connected dual enrollment and said that integrating college coursework into career-focused programs can help students better understand their educational options and how further training could support their professional goals.

• October 15, 2026

The Next Step in Dual Enrollment: Career Pathways

Career-connected learning in high school is taking off. High school students and their families have become increasingly enthusiastic about it. Community colleges should share students’ and families’ enthusiasm—and use dual enrollment more strategically to build on it, Davis Jenkins wrote in Community College Daily.

• October 15, 2026

Bringing College Credit Deeper Into High School CTE

A new CCRC report argues that colleges and K-12 systems can close the gap between CTE and dual enrollment by embedding college courses into CTE pathways, career academies and other programs that already serve high school students, Community Colleged Daily reported.

• October 7, 2026

More New Yorkers Can Now Get Free Community College Even if They Already Have a Degree

Davis Jenkins told the Chronicle of Higher Education that the growth of tuition-free programs for students over age 25 is encouraging, but emphasized addressing the issue of retention through robust advising, flexible schedules, and academic planning.

• October 7, 2026

In California, Community Colleges Look to Shrink Primary Care Deserts

Maria Cormier spoke with WorkShift about the growing number of four-year healthcare degrees offered by community colleges as an alternative to the traditional model of stackable credentials.

• October 7, 2026

John Porter Envisions a New Kind of Education

The former IBM executive wants to take learners seamlessly from a tech certificate through a grad degree. Davis Jenkins said in the Chronicle of Higher Education that the efforts could be successful if the program reflects real student demand and the institution guides students' pathways via robust advising.

• September 29, 2026

Rethinking the Traditional College Student

A six-part series on The Key With Inside Higher Ed: Voices of Student Success podcast features higher ed experts—including CCRC's John Fink—who explore who today’s college students are and how institutions can better support the realities of their lives.