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.
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.
Characteristics of Early Community College Dropouts
The first in CCRC’s analytics series, this publication examines characteristics of students who drop out of college after only one semester.
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.
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.