CCRC in the News
Ambition in the Face of Failure
For the ECMC blog, CCRC Research Associate Maggie Fay describes her research on students who take remedial math courses at least once after failing the first time. Her work suggests that repeated failure does not lower all students' postsecondary ambition.
Crain's Editorial: Yes to Tri-C Levy
In this editorial, Crain's Cleveland Business argues that the community should vote to increase taxes to fund Cuyahoga Community College. They use CCRC's new guided pathways case study on Tri-C as evidence for why.
Colleges and States Turn their Attention to Slow-Moving Part-time Students
Davis Jenkins questions the value of advising students to take their time in this story in The Hechinger Report that looks at what colleges are doing to help more part-time students graduate.
Common Threads in Guided Pathways
This Community College Daily story highlights CCRC's September 2019 guided pathways report, which includes five case studies and describes the institutional change process at colleges around the country.
Census Data Inform Community College Research
The Census is a wellspring of information for community college researchers, CCRC Postdoctoral Research Associate Vivian Liu told Community College Daily.
Developmental Math Study Shows Promising Results
This Community College Daily story describes CAPR's latest report on Dana Center Math Pathways, which found that students who took DCMP developmental courses enroll in and pass college-level math courses at higher rates than students who take traditional developmental math courses.
A Gates-Funded Program Meant to Keep Low-Income Students Pushed Them out Instead
This Vox piece describes the finding's from CCRC and MDRC's July report on the expansion of the iPASS program on three campuses.
Streamlining the Transfer Process
CCRC Senior Research Scholar Davis Jenkins weighed-in on the quality of the supports available to transfer students and the challenges they face in this Inside Higher Ed story. The piece describes a new partnership in Virginia that aims to improve outcomes for transfers.
The Truth About Student Debt: It's Bad, But That's No Reason To Avoid Loans
CCRC Senior Research Scholar Judith Scott-Clayton spoke to Newsweek for its cover story on the realities of student loan debt. Among other topics, Scott-Clayton touched on the challenges faced by borrowers with the least amount of debt, as well as the troubling racial patterns among student loan defaulters.
Tech Not a Cure-all in Student Advising
Researchers from CCRC and MDRC studied how the expansion of advising technologies and new communication strategies affected three institutions. This Campus Technology story describes their findings.