Looking Beyond the Screen: Connection and Humanity in Online Learning Environments
Five years after the onset of the pandemic, students enrolled in online classes are still reporting a lack of social connection and feelings of isolation. CCRC researcher Akilah Thompson shares strategies in this blog post to help students feel more engaged, confident, and human in their online courses.
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.
The Dual Enrollment Pathways SOAA: Assessing and Improving Dual Enrollment Practices at Scale
This blog post introduces the dual enrollment pathways scale of adoption assessment, a self-assessment tool for colleges and college–K-12 partnerships to compare their current dual enrollment practices against the DEEP framework.
Teaching Community College Students to Be Versatile Learners: An Imperative for Ensuring Post-Completion Success
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.
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.
