English Learners and ESL Programs in the Community College: A Review of the Literature
This paper examines factors within the community college context that affect the experiences and academic outcomes of the English learner population broadly and students who enroll in ESL courses in particular.
American Honors: The Life and Death of a Public-Private Partnership
In 2012, Quad Learning partnered with two community colleges to pilot American Honors, a program designed to help academically talented community college students overcome the challenges of transferring to more selective four-year destinations. This paper traces the components of the program’s socially conscious theory of change, its for-profit business model, and the tensions between the two.
The Evolving Mission of Workforce Development in the Community College
This paper describes how community colleges became a major resource for the nation’s workforce development requirements and discusses how this role continues to evolve to meet the needs of students, employers, and local communities.
Demography as Opportunity
This working paper describes the idea of demography as opportunity, which marries the racial and ethnic shifts underway in the country and in higher education with equity perspectives on historically disenfranchised populations.
Performance Standards in Need-Based Student Aid
This paper illustrates student responses to Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) requirements as well as the tradeoffs faced by a social planner weighing whether to set performance standards in the context of need-based aid.
