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Community College Programs That Prepare Students for Post-Completion Success

A new CCRC report examines data on what degrees and certificates community colleges nationally are awarding and which of those programs are more likely to enable students to secure good jobs directly or transfer efficiently to a bachelor’s degree program in students’ major fields of interest.

Teaching Community College Students to Be Versatile Learners: An Imperative for Ensuring Post-Completion Success

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CCRC's forthcoming book features a chapter on the critical role of teaching and learning in community college efforts to strengthen pathways to post-completion success. This blog post, the third in a series, offers takeaways from the chapter on how community colleges can ensure students gain the practical skills needed for success in employment and future education.

Reimagining Program Recruitment and Onboarding Using the Ask-Connect-Inspire-Plan Framework

To reimagine program onboarding, colleges must shift its purpose from a process focused on acquainting students with campus policies and procedures to one that helps students choose an initial direction and develop an academic plan to meet their goals.

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.

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