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Davis Jenkins

Senior Research Scholar

Davis Jenkins is a senior research scholar at the Community College Research Center and research professor in the Department of Education Policy and Social Analysis at Columbia University’s Teachers College. He works with colleges, schools, community groups, and employers in communities and states across the country to find ways to improve educational and employment outcomes for students from groups that have been poorly served by the U.S. educational system.

His research has helped inspire large-scale institutional reforms to improve educational and career outcomes for community college students, including career pathways, adult contextualized basic skills training (such as I-BEST), guided pathways, and dual enrollment equity pathways, or DEEP.

Together with Thomas Bailey and Shanna Jaggars, he co-authored the 2015 book, Redesigning America’s Community Colleges: A Clearer Path to Student Success, which helped to catalyze the national guided pathways whole-college reform movement. In a new book, More Essential Than Ever: Community College Pathways to Educational and Career Success, he and his colleagues take stock of what they have learned from a decade of research on guided pathways reforms at over 100 colleges nationally. The book presents five strategies leading-edge colleges are implementing, building on early guided pathways reforms, to ensure their programs have strong value for employment and further education after completion, and thus are worth the time, money and effort students invest to enroll in and complete them.

Jenkins earned a PhD in public policy analysis from Carnegie Mellon University and an BA in religion from Princeton University.

April 2025

Which Community College Awards Are Likely to Prepare Students for Post-Completion Success? 

This report uses IPEDS and College Scorecard data to classify the credentials awarded by community colleges in 2022-23 and to assess which credentials are and are not likely to enable students to secure a living-wage job or transfer efficiently in a major.
March 2025

The Transfer Playbook (Second Edition): A Practical Guide for Achieving Excellence in Transfer and Bachelor’s Attainment for Community College Students

The second edition of the Transfer Playbook provides guidance for achieving excellence in transfer and bachelor’s attainment for community college students based on practices observed at exemplary community college and university partnerships.
October 2024

The Postsecondary Outcomes of High School Dual Enrollment Students: A National and State-by-State Analysis

Using NSC data, this report presents national and state-by-state findings on the postsecondary enrollment and completion outcomes of high school students who began taking dual enrollment college courses in fall 2015, tracked for four years after high school.
August 2024

Classifying Community College Programs by Post-Completion Success in Transfer and Workforce

This program classification guidebook and accompanying data analysis and visualization tools from the Aspen Institute and CCRC can be useful for community colleges seeking to increase the number of students in high-value programs and decrease the number in lower value pathways.
July 2024

Dual Enrollment Equity Pathways: A Research-Based Framework for Expanding College and Career Opportunity for Underserved Students

This article introduces “dual enrollment equity pathways” (DEEP)—a research-based framework for rethinking à la carte dual enrollment as a more equitable on-ramp to college programs of study that lead to high-opportunity career paths for students historically underserved in dual enrollment.
March 2024

Lessons From Two Major Evaluations of Guided Pathways

This brief discusses findings and implications from two recent large studies of guided pathways that examined the scale at which colleges have implemented reforms and the association between adopted practices and early student outcomes.
March 2024

How HEER Funding Rescued Community Colleges From the Pandemic

Using financial data from IPEDS, this ARCC Network brief examines what happened to community college revenue and student aid during the pandemic and assesses the importance of Higher Education Emergency Relief (HEER) funding for community colleges and their students.
February 2024

Tracking Transfer: Community College and Four-Year Institutional Effectiveness in Broadening Bachelor’s Degree Attainment

These two reports use student data disaggregated by race/ethnicity, neighborhood income, and age to measure the performance of two- and four-year institutions in enabling students who start college at a community college to transfer and complete bachelor’s programs. State-by-state breakdowns of transfer metrics designed for use by college and state system leaders are included in the reports and in an online data dashboard.
October 2023

Rethinking Dual Enrollment as an Equitable On-Ramp to a Career-Path College Degree Program After High School

This report presents the dual enrollment equity pathways (DEEP) framework, which aims to expand access to dual enrollment and redesign practices so that underserved students can use it to pursue a high-value postsecondary degree program directly after high school.
October 2023

DEEP Insights: Redesigning Dual Enrollment as a Purposeful Pathway to College and Career Opportunity

This report describes dual enrollment equity pathways (DEEP) reforms implemented by six community college–K-12 partnerships in Florida and Texas, and it provides insights and guidance for other colleges and schools interested in undertaking DEEP reforms.
September 2023

Innovating at Scale: Guided Pathways Adoption and Early Student Momentum Among the AACC Pathways Colleges

Drawing on interviews as well as self-assessment and performance data, this report discusses what the AACC Pathways colleges have accomplished in their guided pathways reforms over the past seven years and what they have learned about institutional transformation.
September 2023

Whole-College Guided Pathways Reform Practices: Scale of Adoption by Community Colleges in Three States

Based on institutional survey data, this report presents findings from a study on the scale of adoption of guided pathways practices at community and technical colleges in Ohio, Tennessee, and Washington State.
April 2023

Assessing College-Credit-in-High-School Programs as On-Ramps to Postsecondary Career Pathways for Underrepresented Students

This brief examines research on five programs—AP, IB, dual enrollment, ECHSs and P-TECHs, and high school CTE with articulated credit—and assesses their potential as large-scale on-ramps to high-quality postsecondary programs for underrepresented students.
February 2023

How Can Community Colleges Afford to Offer Dual Enrollment College Courses to High School Students at a Discount?

Using three case studies, this paper examines the conditions under which dual enrollment programming could be made sustainable through efficiency gains, even for colleges that charge discounted tuition (or none at all)
September 2022

Funding Guided Pathways Reforms at Small Colleges: Three Ohio Community Colleges Show How to Do It

This report and accompanying case studies describe how three small colleges have made large-scale changes in practice based on the guided pathways model and how they funded and are sustaining these changes to improve rates of student progression and completion.
May 2022

Research Evidence on Community College Ask-Connect-Inspire-Plan Onboarding Practices

This brief describes the motivation, research evidence, and equity implications that underlie the Ask-Connect-Inspire-Plan framework as a useful strategy for community colleges.
October 2021

Using Guided Pathways to Build Cross-Sector Pathways Partnerships

Based on fieldwork at four guided pathways colleges, this report introduces a cross-sector pathways model and highlights emerging practices and strategies that community colleges are using to build stronger connections with employers, universities, and K-12 schools.
September 2021

How to Achieve More Equitable Community College Student Outcomes: Lessons From Six Years of CCRC Research on Guided Pathways

This report describes how CCRC’s thinking about guided pathways has evolved since the publication of Redesigning America’s Community Colleges in 2015.
October 2020

Funding Guided Pathways: A Guide for Community College Leaders

Drawing on research at six institutions, this guide is intended to help community college leaders understand the costs involved in implementing guided pathways reforms and develop plans for funding and sustaining them.
September 2020

The Dual Enrollment Playbook: A Guide to Equitable Acceleration for Students

Based on research conducted in three states, this report identifies five principles that undergird the strategies and practices of equitable dual enrollment partnerships between high schools and colleges.
June 2020

Unpacking Program Enrollments and Completions With Equity in Mind

This guide presents a set of example data analyses colleges can replicate to examine whether underserved groups of students are equitably represented in programs that lead to higher opportunity outcomes for employment and/or baccalaureate transfer.
May 2020

Redesigning Community College Student Onboarding Through Guided Pathways

This practitioner packet provides guidance to colleges seeking to redesign their new student onboarding practices to better help students explore, choose, and plan a program of study best suited to their interests and aspirations.
September 2019

Redesigning Your College Through Guided Pathways: Lessons on Managing Whole-College Reform From the AACC Pathways Project

This report and the five case studies that accompany it describe how institutions are managing the broad-based transformation of programs, student services, and related support systems using the guided pathways model.
July 2019

Early Momentum Metrics: Leading Indicators for Community College Improvement

In this brief, the authors examine how well nine measures of students’ progress in their first year predict student completion in subsequent years, and thus how suitable these early momentum metrics are as leading indicators of the effectiveness of institutional reforms.
September 2018

KCTCS Enhancing Programs for IT Certification (EPIC)

This report evaluates the implementation and impacts of Enhancing Programs for IT Certification (EPIC), a program that aims to expand access to computer and medical information technology credentials at six Kentucky community colleges.
September 2018

Building Guided Pathways to Community College Student Success: Promising Practices and Early Evidence From Tennessee

This report describes the guided pathways reforms taking place at the 13 community colleges in the Tennessee Board of Regents, along with promising trends in first-year momentum among entering students.
June 2018

Strengthening Transfer Paths to a Bachelor’s Degree: Identifying Effective Two-Year to Four-Year College Partnerships

Using National Student Clearinghouse data, this paper introduces a two-stage, input-adjusted, value-added analytic framework for identifying partnerships of two- and four-year institutions that are particularly effective in enabling students to transfer and earn bachelor’s degrees.
April 2018

What We Are Learning About Guided Pathways

This practitioner packet describes the guided pathways reform model; presents case studies of how colleges are approaching key pathways practices, with promising evidence on student success from early adopters; and outlines steps and a timeline for implementing guided pathways reforms.
February 2018

Using Data Mining to Explore Why Community College Transfer Students Earn Bachelor’s Degrees With Excess Credits

This CCRC working paper uses data-mining techniques to analyze student transcripts from two states and identify variables associated with excess credits among bachelor’s degree completers who started at a community college.
December 2017

Tackling Transfer: A Guide to Convening Community Colleges and Universities to Improve Transfer Student Outcomes

This guide aims to help state entities organize workshops for two- and four-year institutions to improve transfer and graduation outcomes for their students through data analysis and self-reflection of institutional practices and the development of action plans.
December 2017

How to Measure Community College Effectiveness in Serving Transfer Students

This guide provides instructions for community colleges that want to use National Student Clearinghouse data to assess their own effectiveness and that of particular transfer partnerships in helping students to transfer and complete bachelor’s degrees.
October 2017

Takes Two to Tango: Essential Practices of Highly Effective Transfer Partnerships

This journal article offers a set of essential transfer practices culled from national fieldwork to two- and four-year institutional transfer partnerships identified using NSC data as highly effective in supporting transfer student success.
September 2017

What Happens to Students Who Take Community College “Dual Enrollment” Courses in High School?

This report uses student enrollment and degree records from the National Student Clearinghouse to examine who enrolls in community college dual enrollment courses and what happens to them after high school.
September 2017

Building Blocks: Laying the Groundwork for Guided Pathways Reform in Ohio

This report describes how Ohio’s two-year colleges are approaching guided pathways reforms, focusing on innovations they have implemented in recent years that can serve as building blocks as they seek to transform their policies, practices, and culture following the guided pathways model.
May 2017

Is It Really Cheaper to Start at a Community College? The Consequences of Inefficient Transfer for Community College Students Seeking Bachelor’s Degrees

Using data from two state systems, this paper examines whether it is more efficient for bachelor’s degree seekers to start at a two-year college.
April 2017

Implementing Guided Pathways: Early Insights From the AACC Pathways Colleges

This report provides insight into how colleges are planning and implementing “guided pathways” reforms based on the early work of 30 colleges participating in the American Association of Community Colleges’ (AACC) Pathways Project.
February 2017

Early Momentum Metrics: Why They Matter for College Improvement

In this brief, the authors propose three measures of early academic momentum that colleges can use to gauge whether institutional reforms are improving student outcomes
January 2017

Policy Levers to Strengthen Community College Transfer Student Success in Texas

Based on three sets of analyses, this report to the Greater Texas Foundation recommends ways that state policy could help to improve outcomes for community college transfer students in Texas.
August 2016

Matching Talents to Careers: From Self-Directed to Guided Pathways

This chapter in the book Matching Students to Opportunity examines the matching process between students and college programs or majors, primarily in community colleges.
June 2016

Momentum: The Academic and Economic Value of a 15-Credit First-Semester Course Load for College Students in Tennessee

Using student-level data from the Tennessee Board of Regents, this paper explores the academic and economic consequences of taking higher or lower credit loads in the first semester and first year of college.
June 2016

Guided Pathways to Careers: Four Dimensions of Structure in Community College Career-Technical Programs

This study documents the specific ways that community college career-technical programs are structured to support student success, and it provides a framework for examining structure to inform practice and guide future research efforts.
May 2016

The Transfer Playbook: Essential Practices for Two- and Four-Year Colleges

This playbook is a practical guide to designing and implementing a key set of practices that will help community colleges and their four-year college partners improve bachelor’s completion rates for students who start at community colleges.
April 2016

Is Corequisite Remediation Cost-Effective? Early Findings From Tennessee

This brief examines the corequisite remediation model as it was implemented in Tennessee community colleges in fall 2015 and finds that it is more cost-effective than the prerequisite remediation model the colleges formerly used.
January 2016

Tracking Transfer: New Measures of Institutional and State Effectiveness in Helping Community College Students Attain Bachelor’s Degrees

This report uses five metrics to measure the effectiveness of two- and four-year institutions in enabling community college students to transfer to four-year institutions and earn bachelor’s degrees.
April 2015

Redesigning America’s Community Colleges: A Clearer Path to Student Success

The authors of this book argue that to substantially increase student completion, community colleges must engage in fundamental redesign and outline research-based strategies to help colleges achieve this goal.
April 2015

What We Know About Guided Pathways

This practitioner packet summarizes evidence supporting the guided pathways reform model, describes how one college implemented guided pathways, and offers tips for getting started on guided pathways reforms.
January 2015

What We Know About Transfer

This research overview reviews findings on transfer from community colleges to four-year colleges, including student outcomes, barriers to transfer, the economic benefits of transfer, and potential benefits to four-year colleges.
September 2014

Strengthening Program Pathways Through Transformative Change

This chapter reports on a major college-wide effort to smooth students’ paths as they enter the college, choose a program, and progress to a credential.
September 2014

Can Community Colleges Afford to Improve Completion? Measuring the Costs and Efficiency Effects of College Reforms

This paper introduces a model that uses transcript data matched to credit-level cost data and funding formulae to calculate the implications for efficiency of reforms intended to improve completion rates.
May 2014

Can Community Colleges Continue to Do More With Less?

In light of cost-cutting practices used by community colleges today, this article argues that the emphasis of policy and practice should be on improving efficiency: the cost per completion of a high-quality credential.
January 2014

Community College Economics for Policymakers: The One Big Fact and the One Big Myth

This paper argues that policymaking has been impaired by neglect of the fact that returns to college are high and by acceptance of the myth that the college affordability crisis is due to colleges' wasteful spending.
January 2014

Get With the Program … and Finish It: Building Guided Pathways to Accelerate Student Completion

This publication describes efforts by a growing number of colleges and universities to create “guided pathways” designed to increase the rate at which students enter and complete a program of study.
May 2013

Access and Success With Less: Improving Productivity in Broad-Access Postsecondary Institutions

This article reviews research on what community colleges and less selective public universities can do to graduate more students at a lower cost without sacrificing access or quality.
April 2013

A Growing Culture of Evidence? Findings From a Survey on Data Use at Achieving the Dream Colleges in Washington State

This report examines the use of data on students by faculty, administrators, and student services staff at six Washington State colleges that joined Achieving the Dream in 2006–2007.
April 2013

Understanding the Student Experience Through the Loss/Momentum Framework: Clearing the Path to Completion

This report introduces an approach to examining students’ college experiences, identifying factors that catalyze or impede their progress, and using these insights to improve student outcomes.
April 2013

Nuances of Completion: Improving Student Outcomes by Unpacking the Numbers

This publication examines the hidden complexity of completion outcome data and offers an approach to teasing out the complex factors that affect student completion in order to boost student success.
April 2013

Principles of Redesign: Promising Approaches to Transforming Student Outcomes

This publication presents eight core ideas to help community college leaders and practitioners address the fundamental challenges to student success.
March 2013

Metrics, Dollars, and Systems Change: Learning From Washington State’s Student Achievement Initiative to Design Effective Postsecondary Performance Funding Policies

Based on findings from a three-year study of Washington State’s Student Achievement Initiative, this policy brief offers lessons for state leaders seeking to design effective higher education performance funding systems.
December 2012

Washington State Student Achievement Initiative Policy Study: Final Report

This report assesses how and to what extent the Student Achievement Initiative has encouraged two-year public colleges in Washington State to take steps to improve student achievement.
December 2012

Progress in the First Five Years: An Evaluation of Achieving the Dream Colleges in Washington State

This report describes the progress of six colleges in implementing Achieving the Dream’s “culture of evidence” principles for institutional improvement and charts trends in student outcomes over time.
December 2012

Contextualized College Transition Strategies for Adult Basic Skills Students: Learning From Washington State’s I-BEST Program Model

This report seeks to understand those aspects of the Integrated Basic Education and Skills Training (I-BEST) program that best support student learning, progression, and completion.
December 2012

New Evidence of Success for Community College Remedial English Students: Tracking the Outcomes of Students in the Accelerated Learning Program (ALP)

This paper presents the findings from a follow-up quantitative analysis of the Community College of Baltimore County’s Accelerated Learning Program (ALP).
November 2012

Not Just Math and English: Courses That Pose Obstacles to Community College Completion

This paper offers methods for identifying introductory courses that are obstacles to college completion, and the relative extent of the obstacle each poses.
October 2012

Structure in Community College Career-Technical Programs: A Qualitative Analysis

This study examines the structure of community college career-technical programs and its association with program completion.
January 2012

Get With the Program: Accelerating Community College Students’ Entry Into and Completion of Programs of Study

This paper argues that to improve completion rates, colleges must help students enter programs as soon as possible; it presents a method for measuring program entry and completion rates using transcript data.
September 2011

Charting Pathways to Completion for Low-Income Community College Students

Administrative data from Washington State is used to chart the educational pathways of first-time community college students, with a focus on young, socioeconomically disadvantaged students.
April 2011

How I-BEST Works: Findings From a Field Study of Washington State’s Integrated Basic Education and Skills Training Program

The I-BEST program at Washington State's community and technical colleges integrates basic skills education with vocational training and has increased completion rates for participating students.
March 2011

Performance Incentives to Improve Community College Completion: Learning From Washington State’s Student Achievement Initiative

This policy brief examines key issues raised by Washington State's experience with the Student Achievement Initiative model of performance funding for community and technical colleges.
February 2011

Introduction to the CCRC Assessment of Evidence Series

This paper summarizes findings from eight working papers (the Assessment of Evidence Series) that synthesized research on strategies for improving outcomes for community college students, and makes four broad recommendations based on these findings.
January 2011

Redesigning Community Colleges for Completion: Lessons From Research on High-Performance Organizations (Assessment of Evidence Series)

Based on practices found to be effective among a broad range of high-performance organizations, this paper outlines practical steps community colleges can take to bring about continuous improvement in student learning and progression.
January 2011

Turning the Tide: Five Years of Achieving the Dream in Community Colleges

This interim report examines the experiences of the first 26 colleges to join Achieving the Dream, which helps community colleges collect and analyze student performance data to increase student success.
September 2010

A Model for Accelerating Academic Success of Community College Remedial English Students: Is the Accelerated Learning Program (ALP) Effective and Affordable?

This paper presents findings from a quantitative analysis of the Community College of Baltimore County's Accelerated Learning Program (ALP) for upper level developmental writing students.
September 2010

Washington State’s Integrated Basic Education and Skills Training Program (I-BEST): New Evidence of Effectiveness

CCRC examined educational and labor market outcomes of participants in I-BEST, which aims to help adult basic skills students succeed in postsecondary occupational education and training.
July 2010

Using State Data to Promote Continuous Improvement of Workforce Programs: Guidance for States Preparing Applications to the U.S. DOL Workforce Data Quality Initiative

This brief describes how state workforce agencies can link education and workforce data to monitor how well their education and workforce development investments are meeting labor market needs.
November 2009

Strategies for Promoting Gatekeeper Course Success Among Students Needing Remediation: Research Report for the Virginia Community College System

CCRC examined student characteristics, course-taking patterns, and other factors associated with higher probabilities that students who require remediation will take and pass gatekeeper courses.
May 2009

Educational Outcomes of I-BEST, Washington State Community and Technical College System’s Integrated Basic Education and Skills Training Program: Findings From a Multivariate Analysis

This paper presents findings from a study on the outcomes of students participating in Washington State's I-BEST program, which combines basic skills instruction with career-technical instruction.
March 2009

Achieving the Dream Colleges in Pennsylvania and Washington State: Early Progress Toward Building a Culture of Evidence

This report describes the progress made by the 13 Pennsylvania and Washington State community colleges that comprise Round 3 of the Achieving the Dream initiative after planning and one year of implementation.
February 2009

Evidence-Based Decision Making in Community Colleges: Findings From a Survey of Faculty and Administrator Data Use at Achieving the Dream Colleges

Based on a survey of faculty and administrators at 41 Achieving the Dream colleges, this study examines what specific data college faculty and administrators use in their jobs and the extent to which they use data analysis to design and improve the impact of college programs and services.
January 2009

Formative Evaluation of the Student Achievement Initiative “Learning Year”

This report presents findings from an independent qualitative review of Washington State's Student Achievement Initiative, which rewards colleges for improvements in student outcomes.
December 2008

Community College Student Success: What Institutional Characteristics Make a Difference?

This paper describes how researchers used data on student characteristics and educational outcomes from several federal government sources to explore the legitimacy of the various ways that college effectiveness can be assessed by using measures of student success.
September 2008

Using State Student Unit Record Data to Increase Community College Student Success

This article describes lessons learned by states that are using student unit record data to improve outcomes for community college students and how states can strengthen their use of data.
April 2008

CCRC Research Tools No. 3: A Short Guide to “Tipping Point” Analyses of Community College Student Labor Market Outcomes

This guide aims to help community colleges and state agencies analyze the labor market outcomes of their programs and identify opportunities for improving students' employment outcomes.
January 2008

CCRC Research Tools No. 2: Using Longitudinal Data to Increase Community College Student Success: A Guide to Measuring Milestone and Momentum Point Attainment

This guide is intended to help researchers in colleges and state agencies use longitudinal student unit record data to create simple and meaningful statistics on student achievement.
October 2007

Promising Practices for Community College Developmental Education

This report, written for the Connecticut Community College System, summarizes key findings on effective developmental education practice.
August 2007

Does Age of Entrance Affect Community College Completion Probabilities? Evidence From a Discrete-Time Hazard Model

This paper reveals unique findings from a study that compared educational outcomes of older and traditional-age students.
June 2007

Do Student Success Courses Actually Help Community College Students Succeed?

This brief reports the findings from a CCRC study on the effectiveness of student success courses at Florida community colleges.
May 2007

Building a Culture of Evidence for Community College Student Success: Early Progress in the Achieving the Dream Initiative

This report describes the early progress that the first 27 Achieving the Dream colleges made after one year of implementation.
April 2007

Institutional Research and the Culture of Evidence at Community Colleges

This report, the first in CCRC's Culture of Evidence Series, presents findings from a CCRC study on how community colleges are using their own data and research to work toward improving student success.
March 2007

Is Student Success Labeled Institutional Failure? Student Goals and Graduation Rates in the Accountability Debate at Community Colleges

This working paper explores the impact of students' reasons for enrollment and educational expectations on their outcomes and, thus, on the performance of their college.
March 2007

What Can Student Right-to-Know Graduation Rates Tell Us About Community College Performance?

This working paper examines the validity of the Student Right-to-Know (SRK) graduation rates as measures of community college performance.
October 2006

Stepping Stones to a Degree: The Impact of Enrollment Pathways and Milestones on Community College Student Outcomes

This paper presents findings from CCRC's study on the experiences and educational outcomes of older and younger community college students.
July 2006

CCRC Research Tools No. 1: Using Census Data to Classify Community College Students by Socioeconomic Status and Community Characteristics

This brief describes the methodology CCRC researchers used to estimate the socioeconomic status of individual students in the Washington State community and technical college system.
May 2006

What Community College Management Practices Are Effective in Promoting Student Success? A Study of High- and Low-Impact Institutions

This study seeks to identify policies and practices of community colleges that are effective in enabling their students to succeed in postsecondary education.
October 2005

Is Student-Right-to-Know All You Should Know? An Analysis of Community College Graduation Rates

This working paper presents a research model that CCRC has developed to better understand the effects of institutional characteristics on student outcomes.
April 2005

Building Pathways to Success for Low-Skill Adult Students: Lessons for Community College Policy and Practice From a Statewide Longitudinal Tracking Study

This report presents findings from a first-of-its kind study on the experience and outcomes of low-skill adults in community colleges.
February 2005

Community College Low-Income and Minority Student Completion Study: Descriptive Statistics From the 1992 High School Cohort

This report summarizes statistics on access and attainment in higher education, focusing on community college students, using data from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988.
February 2005

The Effects of Institutional Factors on the Success of Community College Students

This paper examines institutional characteristics that affect the success of community college students as measured by the individual student probability of completing a certificate or degree or transferring to a baccalaureate institution.
January 2005

What We Know About Community College Low-Income and Minority Student Outcomes

This report summarizes the latest available national statistics on access and attainment by low-income and racial/ethnic minority community college students.
November 2004

Improving Student Attainment in Community Colleges: Institutional Characteristics and Policies

This report reviews the state of research on the determinants of student outcomes in community colleges and initiates a program of empirical research on institutional graduation rates.
January 2004

Outsourcing of Instruction at Community Colleges

This report presents the findings of exploratory research designed to identify the characteristics of the outsourcing of instruction at community colleges and the forces that promote or block its spread.
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Recent Presentations by Davis Jenkins

April 2025

Strengthening Pathways to Educational and Career Success​

April 2025

Transforming Transfer: The Transfer Playbook 2.0 Framework for Sustainable Success​

April 2025

Unlocking Opportunity: Strategies to Strengthen Credential Value​

April 2025

Rethinking Dual Enrollment as a Purposeful Pathway to College and Career Opportunity

February 2025

Unlocking Opportunity: Eight Strategies To Strengthen the Value of Community College Credentials

February 2025

More Essential Than Ever: Community College Pathways to Educational and Career Success

October 2023

Innovating at Scale: Guided Pathways Adoption and Early Student Momentum at AACC Pathways Colleges

January 2022

Informational Webinar on CCRC’s Guided Pathways Summer Institute

February 2021

CCRC Webinar on Costs and Funding of Guided Pathways in California

November 2020

CCRC Cost Study Webinar

February 2018

Measuring (and Improving) the Impacts of Guided Pathways Reforms

December 2017

What We Know About Transfer Outcomes and How Colleges Can Improve Them

July 2017

Guided Pathways Scale of Adoption Assessment Workshop #2

May 2017

Assessing, Supporting, and Scaling Pathways

April 2017

Plenary Session: Are Colleges Guiding Students to Choose Valuable Programs and Pathways?

Recent Publications

April 2025

Which Community College Awards Are Likely to Prepare Students for Post-Completion Success? 

March 2025

The Transfer Playbook (Second Edition): A Practical Guide for Achieving Excellence in Transfer and Bachelor’s Attainment for Community College Students

October 2024

The Postsecondary Outcomes of High School Dual Enrollment Students: A National and State-by-State Analysis

August 2024

Classifying Community College Programs by Post-Completion Success in Transfer and Workforce

Recent Presentations

April 2025

Strengthening Pathways to Educational and Career Success​

April 2025

Transforming Transfer: The Transfer Playbook 2.0 Framework for Sustainable Success​

April 2025

Unlocking Opportunity: Strategies to Strengthen Credential Value​

April 2025

Rethinking Dual Enrollment as a Purposeful Pathway to College and Career Opportunity

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