American Community Colleges in the Downturn
This article elaborates on the increased importance of community colleges in training, retraining, and providing higher education in the recent economic downturn.
The Landscape of Noncredit Workforce Education: State Policies and Community College Practices
This report provides detailed findings on state policies and community college practice from CCRC’s study of community college noncredit workforce education.
Challenge and Opportunity: Rethinking the Role and Function of Developmental Education in Community College
This paper examines evidence on the effectiveness of developmental education and outlines a broad reform agenda for helping students with weak academic skills.
Student Success Courses in the Community College: An Exploratory Study of Student Perspectives
In this journal article, the authors examine how student success courses help students develop relationships that provide support and useful information long after the class is over.
Community College Student Success: What Institutional Characteristics Make a Difference?
This paper describes how researchers used data on student characteristics and educational outcomes from several federal government sources to explore the legitimacy of the various ways that college effectiveness can be assessed by using measures of student success.