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Help CCRC Learn About Community College Course Scheduling Practices

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A well-designed schedule is a powerful tool to support students’ timely completion. But how do colleges build them? And what are the opportunities for improvement and innovation? CCRC is launching a national survey to learn how community colleges navigate these complexities—and we want to hear from your institution.

After Dev Ed: Redesigning First-Year Composition to Support All Students

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In the second part of a series on how Onondaga Community College transformed their developmental education course structures, English professor Malkiel Choseed describes how the college integrated corequisite support for first-year composition into one credit-bearing course that contributed to improvements in overall course outcomes for all students.

Early Momentum Metrics for Dual Enrollment: Evidence From Four States

A new report introduces a set of dual enrollment momentum metrics that capture participation and academic progress of high school dual enrollment students, and assesses how reliably these metrics predict postsecondary success. In this blog post, the report authors outline their findings.

Highlights From CCRC’s First-Ever Dual Enrollment Student Advisory Panel

Dual Enrollment Student Advisory Panel
In 2025, CCRC's dual enrollment research team recruited 11 current and former dual enrollment students to establish a student advisory panel. As the students on the first panel end their tenure, this blog post highlights some of their contributions.

Letter From the Director: Some Federal Funding Restored to CCRC

In March 2025, CCRC was notified by the U.S. Department of Education that four of its grants from the Institute of Education Sciences had been terminated. This spring, three of the projects were reinstated. In this blog post, Thomas Brock gives an update on the reinstated projects.

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