Opinion
Aid Low-Income Students and Colleges That Serve Them
In The New York Times, Nikki Edgecombe discusses strategies for improving institutional performance and graduation rates in public higher education.
Technology Is Not Enough
In Inside Higher Ed, Serena Klempin writes about CCRC's research findings on the implementation of advising technologies at community colleges and the important roles that both senior and midlevel project leaders have to play in transformative change.
Using IPAS to Motivate Reform
In a blog post for the AACC 21st Century Center, Melinda Mechur Karp writes about the process of implementing integrated planning and advising services (IPAS) at colleges, focusing on the human side of technological reform.
The Real Change Agents
In Inside Higher Ed, James Jacobs looks at the call for institutional change in Redesigning America's Community Colleges and points out the importance of gaining support for reform from middle-level management.
Rethinking the "Cafeteria" Approach to Community College
In The Washington Post, Thomas Bailey lays out the central argument of the book he authored with Shanna Smith Jaggars and Davis Jenkins—that to improve student transfer and completion rates, community colleges must fundamentally rethink how they operate.
Why Are Graduation Rates at Community Colleges So Low?
In an interview with The Hechinger Report, Thomas Bailey discusses the weaknesses of the "cafeteria model" of community colleges and why they should restructure their offerings to create more defined program pathways.
Q&A: The Politics of Performance Funding for Higher Education: Origins, Discontinuations, and Transformations
Kevin Dougherty and Rebecca Natow discuss findings from their new book on performance funding in an interview with the New Books Network.
A Simpler Path, Authors Say, Is Key to Community-College Completion
In an interview with The Chronicle of Higher Education, Thomas Bailey talks about the book he authored with Shanna Smith Jaggars and Davis Jenkins and its argument that streamlining program pathways could improve student completion rates.
No, Online Classes Are Not Going to Help America's Poor Kids Bridge the Achievement Gap
In The Washington Post, Shanna Smith Jaggars refutes the idea that massive open online courses (MOOCs) will revolutionize postsecondary education and make a high-quality education free for all students.
Redesigning Community Colleges
Thomas Bailey, Shanna Smith Jaggars, and Davis Jenkins discuss the findings from their new book, Redesigning America's Community Colleges, in a Q&A with Inside Higher Ed.