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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.

How Many Community Colleges Fully Recovered Their Enrollments Three Years After the Pandemic? Too Few.

Newly released fall 2023 enrollment numbers offer the most detailed look yet at how individual community colleges and state systems have fared since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using interactive data dashboards, users can explore trends among student subgroups in particular states and institutions.

How North Central Michigan College Used Pandemic Relief Funds to Keep Students Enrolled and Help Them Learn

North Central Michigan College was one of the 265 colleges in six states surveyed by the ARCC Network to understand how federal pandemic-recovery funding supported community colleges and their students. In this Q&A, North Central leaders answered questions about their experience during the pandemic and what comes next.

“You Can’t Deny the Whole Student”: Student Supports During and After the Pandemic

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In a podcast interview, researchers from three ARCC projects recently sat down to talk about what they have learned about students’ support needs during and after the pandemic and how colleges are addressing them. Listen to the audio interview and read the transcript featured within this blog post.

An Interactive Dashboard for Exploring Pandemic Relief Funding

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An interactive Tableau dashboard developed for the ARCC Network presents publicly available award and spending data on HEER Funds from the Education Stabilization Fund Transparency Portal. Users are able to examine funding and spending trends at community colleges across the country by region, state, and institutional characteristics.

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