How State Systems Can Help Scale Student Success Reforms
One challenge to improving community college student success is how to scale and sustain systemic reforms across multiple institutions. In this blog post, the authors of CCRC’s forthcoming book share lessons from their evaluation of statewide guided pathways reforms and offer strategies for putting next-frontier innovations into practice.
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.
Who Has Access to Dual Enrollment and AP Coursework at Your Local Schools?
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.
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.
