Tag: John Fink

New data show dual enrollment has expanded across the country. CCRC's John Fink shares key takeaways from updated 2023-24 IPEDS data in this blog post.

As high school dual enrollment continues to expand across the country, an increasing number of students are taking their early college coursework online. In this blog post, CCRC researchers share strategies for implementing online dual enrollment courses in a way that mitigates the risk of sacrificing course quality for access.

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.

A forthcoming book to be published in August 2025 takes stock of what we have learned over nearly a decade of research on the guided pathways model for whole-college transformation. This blog post, the first in a series, features insights from the book, including practical guidance for community colleges on meeting the challenges they face today.

A new CCRC report examines data on what degrees and certificates community colleges nationally are awarding and which of those programs are more likely to enable students to secure good jobs directly or transfer efficiently to a bachelor’s degree program in students’ major fields of interest.