CCRC in the News
Dual Enrollment Comes at a Cost
Inside Higher Ed spoke with Davis Jenkins and John Fink about their latest publication, which shows dual-enrollment programs can be costly for community colleges—unless they’re carefully designed.
Tulsa Community College Among 10 U.S. Schools Chosen for Post-College Success Initiative
Tulsa is one of 10 community colleges selected to participate in “Unlocking Opportunity: The Post-Graduation Success and Equity Network,” an initiative aimed at improving post-graduation outcomes, with special focus on first-generation, minority, and lower-income students. The colleges were also featured in other publications, including Laramie County Community College in Wyoming Tribune Eagle, Lorain County Community College in The Morning Journal, and Odessa College in Odessa American Online. University Business also covered the story.
Community Colleges See Stabilizing Enrollment After Steep Pandemic Losses
According to new data reported by Chalkbeat, community colleges saw enrollment begin to stabilize last year after heavy pandemic losses, fueled in part by more new students and a surge of dually enrolled high schoolers.
‘Great Resigners’ Report Shows Opportunity for Higher Ed
Following mass resignations spurred by the pandemic, new data suggests the workforce is looking for opportunities to expand their skills. Diverse: Issues In Higher Education spoke with CCRC’s Maria Cormier about how colleges might accommodate returning students.
Report: Caring Campus Program Tied to Increased Connection for Students and Faculty
Diverse: Issues In Higher Education spoke with CCRC’s Elisabeth Barnett and Selena Cho about findings from their latest report on Caring Campus.
Age Matters
Federal enrollment data shows that community colleges gained dual-enrollment students but lost recent high school grads and adult learners at high rates during the first two years of the pandemic. CCRC’s John Fink spoke with Inside Higher Ed on the differences in enrollment patterns among age groups and how colleges might recoup their losses going forward.
Researchers Hope to Boost Community College Transfer and Make It More Equitable
CCRC and The Aspen Institute team up on a new project that looks at updated data, broken up by race and ethnicity, to see who is transferring from two-year institutions and earning a bachelor’s degree.
College While in High School: How Dual Credit Is Aiming for Equity
The expansion of dual credit programs across the country has offset the steep decline in community college enrollments that the pandemic magnified. But CCRC’s John Fink tells The Christian Science Monitor it’s not clear that replacing regular students with dually enrolled ones is a sustainable strategy for the struggling sector. If colleges hope to make up for their losses, Fink says, they’ll have to convince more high school students to continue their education after they graduate.
Bachelor’s Degree Dreams of Community College Students Get Stymied by Red Tape — And It’s Getting Worse
In response to the falling rate of transfer from community colleges to four-year colleges, experts are calling out the shortcomings of the current transfer process. The Hechinger Report spoke with CCRC’s John Fink about the long road to a bachelor’s degree for today’s community college students. The story also ran in The Washington Post.
5 Ways to Pay for Community College
CCRC Senior Research Assistant Daniel Sparks spoke to U.S. News & World Report about the ways community college students can pay for their education and factors they should be aware of as they apply for funding.
