The Characteristics of Occupational Sub-Baccalaureate Students Entering the New Millennium
This report is a quantitative analysis of postsecondary occupational education students using national datasets.
The Potential of Community Colleges as Bridges to Opportunity for the Disadvantaged: Can It Be Achieved on a Large Scale?
This report examines community colleges’ successes and failures in their role as a bridge to opportunity for disadvantaged students and discusses changes they could make to be more effective in this role.
For-Profit Higher Education and Community Colleges
This paper reports on a two-year research study jointly conducted by CCRC and National Center for Postsecondary Improvement that compares for-profit institutions with community colleges.
Using Community Colleges to Re-Connect Disconnected Youth
This paper argues that community colleges should be a major institution helping disconnected youth reconnect to education.
Learning and Earning in the Middle: The Economic Benefits of Sub-Baccalaureate Education
This report reviews the available evidence on the economic benefits of postsecondary education below the level of the baccalaureate degree, concentrating on the effects of community colleges.