Effective Strategies for Surveying Community College Students: Lessons From a Four-Wave Study
Drawing on the administration of a multi-wave survey, this report describes how combining multi-channel communication, financial incentives, initial in-person classroom visits, technical coordination, and other measures can address survey recruitment and retention challenges.
Dual Enrollment as an Interorganizational Field: Defining and Redefining Organizational Boundaries Between High School and College
Drawing on data from interviews and site visits at three Texas community colleges and their partner high schools, this paper examines how college and high school staff navigate boundaries between their organizations and make decisions to support dual enrollment students and courses.
Financing Community Colleges: Current Landscape and Future Directions
This book chapter describes how state funding formulas, enrollment declines, and federal recovery investments during the COVID-19 pandemic intersect to shape future prospects for community college revenues and spending patterns.
Responding to the Student Voice in Dual Enrollment: Insights From Focus Group Interviews and DESSE Survey Data
Drawing on survey and interview data, this article describes what students want from their dual enrollment experiences and implications for college and K-12 leaders working to strengthen their dual enrollment programming.
Pandemic Relief Spending and Recovery Strategies: Findings From a Survey of Community Colleges in Six States
This book chapter explores the personal support networks and help-seeking preferences of immigrant-origin, first-generation-in-college students (FGCS) as part of a three-year longitudinal mixed-methods study with FGCSs at four public Hispanic-serving institutions in California.