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Community Colleges Up, Four-Year Schools Down in Latest Enrollment Data

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education spoke with Tom Brock about recent community college enrollment trends, which point to an increase in 18-24 year-old students. Brock expressed concern about the lack of enrollment growth for older learners.

How Success Coaches ‘Dig a Little Deeper’ to Anticipate and Tackle Dallas College Students

Success coaches, a more hands-on approach to advising, are Dallas College’s latest effort to demystify the process of obtaining a degree and help its students overcome obstacles along the way.

Grasping for a Foothold on the Enrollment Cliff

Nikki Edgecombe noted to Inside Higher Ed that enrollments at two-year institutions were up by 13.5 percent this spring, driven in large part by a 12.8 percent increase in dually enrolled high school students.

Research to Inform Stronger Adult Education ESL Policy and Practice

In this guest blog, Drs. Nikki Edgecombe and George Bunch discuss their IES study focused on identifying the policies and practices that support multilingual learners (MLs) in community colleges, as well as the important role of adult education English as a Second Language.

Students: Just Say No to Remedial Classes

In an op-ed featured in Inside Higher Ed, CCRC’s Maggie P. Fay says community college students should stand up and refuse remedial course placements.

Five Strategies to Reform Developmental Ed

In an op-ed for Community College Daily, CCRC’s Senior Researcher Susan Bickerstaff, along with Erika Lewy and Katie Beal of MDRC, discussed their recent CAPR report in which they synthesize a decade of research on developmental education and distill it into five evidence-based principles that institutions can use to guide developmental reform efforts.

A national network of 10 exceptional community colleges commits to ensuring that every student can earn a bachelor’s degree or a high-quality workforce credential.

The U.S Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences has awarded $10 million to SRI Education and CCRC to partner with Achieving the Dream and a group of nine broad-access colleges to study how educational technology and instructional strategies can bolster students’ skills for managing their own learning.

In a new set of studies, the Community College Research Center explores what states and community colleges can do to address the needs of racially minoritized adult learners who want to return to college to retrain for a new job, pursue a better job, or earn more money—especially in light of job losses during the COVID-19 pandemic.