Scaling Career-Connected Dual Enrollment: How College and K-12 Partners Can Strengthen Pathways and Expand Opportunity
This report, featuring four associated case studies, describes key strategies and practices undertaken by innovative dual enrollment partnerships; it concludes with lessons for integrating college coursework into existing career-focused high school programs.
Effective Strategies for Surveying Community College Students: Lessons From a Four-Wave Study
Drawing on the administration of a multi-wave survey, this report describes how combining multi-channel communication, financial incentives, initial in-person classroom visits, technical coordination, and other measures can address survey recruitment and retention challenges.
The 14-Year Effects of CUNY ASAP on Educational and Labor Market Outcomes
This report revisits a randomized controlled trial of the CUNY ASAP program that began in 2010 and assesses the program’s long-term impacts on educational attainment and labor market outcomes over fourteen years.
Dual Enrollment as an Interorganizational Field: Defining and Redefining Organizational Boundaries Between High School and College
Drawing on data from interviews and site visits at three Texas community colleges and their partner high schools, this paper examines how college and high school staff navigate boundaries between their organizations and make decisions to support dual enrollment students and courses.
Unlocking Opportunity: Progress Moving More Students Toward Good Jobs
This report details promising early effects of reform at ten colleges participating in the Unlocking Opportunity network and provides recommendations for how community colleges can strengthen program value and help more students access good jobs and bachelor’s degrees.