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.
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.
On Path and On Schedule: Strategies for Prioritizing Time to Completion for Community College Students
The authors of CCRC’s forthcoming book offer strategies to increase community college completion rates by ensuring students are on paths to fulfill academic requirements in as little time and at as little cost as possible.
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.
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.