Research Projects

July 2016–December 2020

CCRC and MDRC are working with colleges in Minnesota and Wisconsin to build and evaluate high-quality multiple measures assessment (MMA) systems.

September 2016–September 2022

CCRC is working with the Ohio Association of Community Colleges (OACC), the Ohio Department of Higher Education (ODHE), and the state’s 23 community and technical colleges to create guided pathways for students to postsecondary credentials and careers.

May 2016–November 2019

With CCRC, this Achieving the Dream (ATD) project seeks to build institutional capacity to better integrate and engage adjunct faculty in student success initiatives and to understand and address the opportunities and challenges faced by colleges employing part-time faculty.

May 2016–July 2018

CCRC is working with NAF to conduct research on NAF students’ postsecondary outcomes as well as students’ experiences in the transition from high school to college.

August 2015–August 2022

Over the course of this three-year project, CCRC will seek to build knowledge and tools that will help practitioners implement effective guided pathways reforms.

January 2016–December 2016

CCRC studied the outcomes of students who transfer from Macomb Community College, their success rates at various destination institutions, and the factors that underlie their success and failure.

March 2015–September 2018

CCRC is evaluating a project to test and expand Kentucky’s online, personalized, competency-based learning system for training IT workers in the computer and medical fields.

September 2015–December 2017

CCRC is partnering with Public Agenda and the Aspen Institute to promote the widespread adoption of high-impact strategies for improving degree completion among students who start in community colleges seeking bachelor’s degrees.

January 2016–June 2018

This project will examine stackable sub-baccalaureate credentials within three state higher education systems. Given the pressures on colleges to offer these credentials and the need for skills accumulation by workers, we expect the results of this study to be an important contribution to the discussion on the design of postsecondary credentials and their impact on the labor market.

November 2015–December 2016

This project investigated Texas’ transfer outcomes, transfer policies, and community college students’ decisions about transfer to shed light on incentives for desirable student-level and institution-level transfer-related behaviors and policies that might influence those behaviors.

October 2015–June 2019

CCRC is examining whether American Honors students are more likely than similar students to persist and transfer.

September 2015–August 2016

CCRC explored the pathways of community college students who eventually transfer and earn bachelor’s degrees in computer science fields, including their enrollment patterns, transfer behaviors, and time to completion.

May 2011–June 2012

CCRC and JBL Associates evaluated Tennessee's efforts to increase structure in community college programs and strengthen connections between community colleges and adult career centers.

October 2014–September 2016

The goal of this project was to encourage and enable colleges and universities to replicate highly effective, scaled transfer practices that substantially increase associate and bachelor’s degree completion across fields, with a special focus on STEM.

July 2014–March 2020

In partnership with MDRC, CCRC is conducting an evaluation of CUNY Start, a pre-matriculation program designed to help students with substantial needs in basic skills to succeed in college.

June 2014–May 2016

CCRC was part of a national technical assistance team that worked with two-year colleges in Arkansas to improve student outcomes by creating more highly structured and educationally coherent pathways to student end goals.

January 2015–December 2016

With this research project, CCRC analyzed student progression into and through program pathways and measured the labor market returns to particular programs at the City Colleges of Chicago.

July 2014–December 2025

CAPR carries out research on innovative approaches to remedial assessment, placement, and instruction in collaboration with social policy research organization MDRC.

October 2013–September 2016

CCRC, along with Complete College America, worked with two- and four-year public system leaders in two states—Indiana and Tennessee—in partnership with other institutional stakeholders, to develop and implement guided pathways reforms across each system.

May 2013–June 2014

This project examined the process and challenges of implementing a revised student success course at CUNY's Bronx Community college and evaluated the outcomes of participating students.

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