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Introducing DEEP: A Research-Based Framework for Broadening the Benefits of Dual Enrollment

A new approach to dual enrollment encourages community colleges to partner with middle and high schools to motivate and prepare underserved students to pursue a postsecondary degree in a field of interest directly after high school.

Letter From the Director: Loss of Federal Funding to CCRC

On March 7, CCRC was notified by the U.S. Department of Education that four of its grants from the Institute of Education Sciences had been terminated. In this blog post, Thomas Brock describes the scope of the cancelled projects and the effects of the federal funding loss.

Introducing the Community College Awards and Earnings Tracker

CCRC's latest data tool shows community college awards by field alongside associated earnings and awardee demographics at national, state, and institutional levels. This dashboard can help community colleges and state systems consider which of their programs put students on paths to post-completion success.

A New Partnership to Explore How Community Colleges Are Preparing the New Energy Workforce: Meet Allison Moe From the National Renewable Energy Laboratory

To help community colleges retool their workforce programs to adapt to changes in the energy sector, it’s important to understand what colleges are already doing. CCRC researchers spoke with Allison Moe, a research project manager at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, about connecting with community and technical colleges and the potential impacts of a new CCRC study.

Funding Community Colleges After HEERF

Using newly released institutional data from IPEDS, this blog post details how community college revenues have changed now that pandemic-related Higher Education Emergency Relief funds have ended.

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