The Characteristics of Occupational Sub-Baccalaureate Students Entering the New Millennium
This report is a quantitative analysis of postsecondary occupational education students using national datasets.
The Potential of Community Colleges as Bridges to Opportunity for the Disadvantaged: Can It Be Achieved on a Large Scale?
This report examines community colleges’ successes and failures in their role as a bridge to opportunity for disadvantaged students and discusses changes they could make to be more effective in this role.
Developing Work-Based Learning Pedagogies
This book chapter examines the rise of the school-to-work movement in the late 1980s and continued throughout the 1990s, and discusses work-based learning pedagogies.
Credentials, Curriculum, and Access: The Debate Over Nurse Preparation
This monograph explores the nurse licensure debate, what is known about the programmatic differences between pre-licensure programs, and research on the job performance of ADN- and BSN-educated nurses.
Learning and Earning in the Middle: The Economic Benefits of Sub-Baccalaureate Education
This report reviews the available evidence on the economic benefits of postsecondary education below the level of the baccalaureate degree, concentrating on the effects of community colleges.