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John Fink

John Fink is a senior research associate and program lead at the Community College Research Center.

High School Dual Enrollment Grows to 2.8 Million

  • Tuesday, 30 September 2025
  • John Fink
  • Essays
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New data show dual enrollment has expanded across the country. CCRC's John Fink shares key takeaways from updated 2023-24 IPEDS data in this blog post.

Who Has Access to Dual Enrollment and AP Coursework at Your Local Schools?

  • Monday, 14 April 2025
  • John Fink
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An interactive dashboard draws on multiple years of CRDC data to provide a school- and district-level view of dual enrollment and Advanced Placement access, disaggregated by students’ race/ethnicity, English language learner status, and disability status. The dashboard is meant to help college and K-12 educators as they strengthen and expand dual enrollment programs.

How Many Community Colleges Fully Recovered Their Enrollments Three Years After the Pandemic? Too Few.

  • Monday, 13 January 2025
  • John Fink
  • Essays
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Newly released fall 2023 enrollment numbers offer the most detailed look yet at how individual community colleges and state systems have fared since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using interactive data dashboards, users can explore trends among student subgroups in particular states and institutions.

How Many Students Are Taking Dual Enrollment Courses In High School? New National, State, and College-Level Data

  • Monday, 26 August 2024
  • John Fink
  • Essays
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Last week, the U.S. Department of Education released new data that, for the first time ever, provide college-level counts of the number of high school dual enrollment students, disaggregated by race/ethnicity and gender. John Fink details a first look at this new information, which represents years of effort among dozens of organizations pushing for better dual enrollment data.

What Happened to Community College Enrollment During the First Years of the Pandemic? It Depends on the Students’ Age

  • Monday, 9 January 2023
  • John Fink
  • Essays
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For the first time following the pandemic, we can examine detailed state- and college-level enrollment trends by age group using the latest federal data. Senior Research Associate and Program Lead John Fink examines these numbers and offers three major takeaways on how community college enrollment changed during the pandemic.
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