CCRC in the News
Dual Enrollment Is Exploding. How Can Colleges Make Sure It’s Equitable?
“You can’t have equity without quality,” John Fink told The Chronicle of Higher Education about dual enrollment course offerings. “You can’t just try to broaden access and not give students a good-quality, well-aligned dual-enrollment course. That’s not doing anybody any favors.”
Equity-Focused Possibilities for Dual Enrollment
“These are programs of privilege,” John Fink told Inside Higher Ed. “The mind-set that educators bring to them and the way that policies are set up reinforces the idea that dual-enrollment courses are advanced courses for students who are already on the college track."
Dual Enrollment Are Often ‘Programs of Privilege,’ Report Says
High schools and colleges typically offer a “laissez-faire” approach to dual enrollment, which means that high school students will randomly pepper their schedule with college courses with little focus on a college or career plan. This approach tends to favor more privileged students, EdSource reports.
4 Ways to Ensure Underresourced Students Excel in Dual Enrollment Outcomes
CCRC researchers created the Dual Enrollment Equity Pathways (DEEP) program to help K12 and higher education work together to help those who would benefit the most from dual enrollment actually realize success in the program. University Business distills four recommendations for rethinking dual enrollment. This article also appears in District Administration.
The Dual Enrollment Experience: Pathways to Academic Success
Last year, around 1.4 million high school students engaged in dual enrollment coursework. In this podcast episode of The Future of Education, Davis Jenkins dives deep into the fascinating world of dual enrollment — a rising higher education trend that’s reshaping the educational journey for high school students and the colleges that serve them.
Report Finds Guided Pathways Adoption Slow
“There has been a lot done on the ground not only to implement the processes in the Guided Pathways model, but to scale them,” Taylor Myers told Diverse: Issues in Higher Education. “This is something that takes a lot of time. This is not an overnight reform.”
Why Community Colleges Can Be a Powerful Resource to Strengthen the Clinical Workforce Pipeline
A new article by the American Hospital Association suggests that as hospitals and health systems continue to renew and strengthen the clinical workforce pipeline, they may want to take a closer look at how community colleges can help in this area.
His Parents Arrived In LA Educated, In Spanish. How Their Experience Is Shaping Community College Classes
Nikki Edgecombe posed a question to the LAist: “How can we affirm the linguistic diversity of our communities and leverage that linguistic diversity to support healthy communities, to have more workers with some post-secondary training that can then work in support and serve those communities better?”
Survey: Community College Goers Talk About Missed Career Goals, Whether Degree Was ‘Worth It’
Tom Brock spoke with The Hechinger Report about survey results that show more than half of former community college students who enrolled with career aspirations said they did not fulfill those aspirations.
What Former College Students Think About Community College
“You can have a large majority of students entering community college feeling very committed to earning a degree and feeling that that is their primary reason for being there,” Tom Brock told The Hechinger Report for their latest newsletter. “And an older group of former students who look back and say, ‘Well, you know, I had a variety of goals, and maybe earning a degree is one of them, but not my only goal, or perhaps the most important goal."
