More Essential Than Ever: Community College Pathways to Educational and Career Success
Drawing on a decade of research on whole-college guided pathways reforms, this book presents five next-frontier strategies colleges can use to strengthen pathways to post-completion student success in jobs and further education.
Discussion Guide for More Essential Than Ever: Community College Pathways to Educational and Career Success
This discussion guide for More Essential Than Ever is designed to help community college faculty, staff, and administrators discuss ideas presented in the book and consider which might be most helpful for improving student success at their institutions.
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.
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.
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.