Publications

This brief provides an overview of dual enrollment and includes recommendations for college leaders and policymakers to scale dual enrollment programs as pathways to opportunity.

Using information and cost data from several CUNY campuses, this brief describes the FWS program’s core administrative components, estimates the campus costs of its implementation, and shows how program scale, staffing, and technology shape these costs.

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.

Drawing on faculty and student survey data and interviews, this brief reports on a pilot study of the SDL Instructional Model and finds that faculty and students perceived the model as valuable and distinct from typical practice in online courses.

This model offers a set of research-based strategies designed to help students more effectively manage their learning in online and hybrid courses, includes guidance for instructors, and provides recommendations for adopting and scaling the strategies across institutions.

Drawing on student surveys, staff interviews, and administrative data, this brief describes the pandemic-era evolution of the FWS program across multiple undergraduate CUNY colleges, highlighting institutional management challenges, student access issues, and common academic benefits of work-study jobs.

This new fact sheet explores student debt among community college students and provides policy considerations for supporting students in making informed borrowing decisions and successfully repaying their loans.

Drawing on three rounds of site visits to eight institutions, this brief examines how Virginia community colleges implemented G3 policy and offers lessons for developing, strengthening, and expanding access to short-term training programs for high-demand jobs.

This new fact sheet provides an overview of student parents and the challenges they face, and provides policy considerations for supporting student parents and improving their experiences.

This report uses student survey and interview data from four California colleges to examine how first-generation college students build relationships and use support networks on- and off-campus to address academic and nonacademic challenges in the first year of college.