An Unprecedented Investment: Community Colleges’ Use of Federal Emergency Aid
This journal article examines how community colleges distributed and utilized Higher Education Emergency Relief (HEER) funding through analysis of nationwide expenditure data from 976 colleges and survey responses from 170 colleges across six states.
Next Frontiers for Community College Innovation: Strengthening Pathways to Post-Completion Success
This article examines a decade of research on guided pathways whole-college reforms at over 100 community colleges nationally, their effects on student outcomes and college performance, and next-frontier reforms needed to further improve student success.
Creating Caring Campuses: A Faculty-Led Approach
This journal article describes the design of the Caring Campus–Faculty program, presents findings from four years of research on important practices and outcomes, and describes implementation experiences at one college that adopted the program.
Supporting Faculty to Meet the Needs of Adult Students in Online Learning
This journal article reviews evidence on adult learners taking online courses, describes online teaching practices that draw on a self-directed learning skills framework, and outlines an evidence-based embedded coaching program that improves student outcomes.
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.