CCRC in the News
New Research Shows Your First Job After College Matters More Than Your Major—Here's Why
Investopedia reported on a new CCRC study that found that the quality and timing of a graduate’s first job explain most of the earnings gap between low- and high-income students five years after college.
Combining Dual Enrollment With AP Courses Yields Positive Student Outcomes
Inside Higher Ed reported on CCRC's new report on combining dual enrollment with AP courses or with a CTE concentration. The report found that students combining either CTE or AP with dual enrollment had higher college graduation rates and earned more after college than students who took AP, CTE, or dual enrollment alone.
Expanding Dual Enrollment Into CTE
A CCRC report examining combinations of accelerated coursework at Texas high schools is calling for the expansion of dual enrollment to career and technical education (CTE) programs, saying there’s an opportunity to “broaden the benefits of accelerated coursework to more students.”
What Should Trustees Know About Community Colleges?
In a Q&A for AGB, Davis Jenkins spoke about community colleges' role in higher education and how college trustees can focus their efforts to improve educational outcomes for community college students.
Accreditors Encourage AI Use to Boost Credit Transfer Process
For transfer students, credit loss is a major barrier to degree completion. But AI may help streamline the process. In Inside Higher Ed, John Fink agreed that the use of AI could speed up the process and even make it so that equivalency criteria are more systematic and evidence-based.
Banning Undocumented Students in CTE
More than two months after the Education Department announced plans to lock out undocumented students from postsecondary career and technical education, colleges largely remain confused on how—or whether—to proceed and fearful of the impact this could have on students and their enrollment numbers. John Fink discussed what this means for dual enrollment growth in Work Shift's newsletter.
If High School Doesn’t Prepare Teens For College, One Leader Wants a ‘Money-Back Guarantee’
Too often, K-12 districts and community colleges operate in silos Elizabeth Kopko said in The Baltimore Banner. “There’s a difference between being ready for high school graduation and being college-ready,” she said. “Those two things rarely are defined the same way.”
Study: College Towns that Offer Students the Best Value
Veronica Minaya spoke about the cost of degrees and the earning expectations for certain degree pathways in a Bankrate article on the value of degrees.
CCA on the Air: More Essential Than Ever–Community College Pathways to Educational and Career Success with John Fink
In this podcast episode of CCA on the Air, John Fink discussed findings from CCRC's new book and how state and institutional leaders can implement proven strategies to help more community college students complete their programs on time and graduate career-ready.
Dual Enrollment Leads to More College Acceptances, Greater Financial Awards
Vivian Yuen Ting Liu, co-author of a recent report on the benefits of dual enrollment, spoke with Inside Higher Ed about how dual enrollment can help underrepresented students' self-confidence in the college application process and potentially encourage them to apply to more selective institutions.