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Letter From the Director: Loss of Federal Funding to CCRC

  • Tuesday, 15 April 2025
  • Thomas Brock
  • Essays
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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.

Letter From the Director: COVID Funding for Community Colleges

  • Monday, 10 August 2020
  • Thomas Brock
  • Essays
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The next COVID-19 federal relief bill should more fairly distribute aid to community colleges, which educate a significant number of students belonging to communities disproportionately affected by the coronavirus pandemic.

Letter From the Director: Coronavirus Pandemic

  • Wednesday, 25 March 2020
  • Thomas Brock
  • Essays
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CCRC is deeply concerned about how the coronavirus will affect community colleges and their students. Here, Director Thomas Brock reflects on responses to the pandemic thus far and describes the important role open-access institutions can play as the country rebuilds from this crisis.

Letter From the Director: Reflections on a Year at CCRC

  • Monday, 30 September 2019
  • Thomas Brock
  • Essays
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CCRC Director Thomas Brock highlights community college reform initiatives and research projects at the core of the center's work and describes two new studies that aim to inform the development of solutions in the field moving forward.

Letter From the Director: Responding to Research Findings on Developmental Education

  • Wednesday, 16 January 2019
  • Thomas Brock
  • Essays
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CCRC Director Thomas Brock gives a broad overview of the landscape of developmental education reform. He details several strategies—including transition courses, corequisites, and math pathways—that aim to improve remediation, and describes what research has revealed thus far about the effectiveness of each approach.
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