Publications

This guide is intended to help researchers in colleges and state agencies use longitudinal student unit record data to create simple and meaningful statistics on student achievement.

This study examines the ways that student support services in community colleges inadvertently perpetuate and legitimate disadvantage.

CCRC researcher Melinda Mechur Karp reviews After Admission: From College Access to College Success.

This book chapter reviews three dominant strategies to create academic linkages between high school and college—remediation, dual enrollment, and the high school/college alignment movement.

This report, written for the Connecticut Community College System, summarizes key findings on effective developmental education practice.

This paper reveals unique findings from a study that compared educational outcomes of older and traditional-age students.

This brief reports the findings from a CCRC study on the effectiveness of student success courses at Florida community colleges.

This report describes the early progress that the first 27 Achieving the Dream colleges made after one year of implementation.

This report, the first in CCRC's Culture of Evidence Series, presents findings from a CCRC study on how community colleges are using their own data and research to work toward improving student success.

This working paper examines how Florida community colleges responded to the introduction of a new merit-based financial aid program.

In CCRC's 2007 newsletter, Director Thomas Bailey argues that in order to improve, community colleges need to make better use of student data. He discusses CCRC's involvement in two national initiatives that emphasize the use of data to inform institutional decision making.

This report describes what policies all 50 states have in place with respect to key community college practices in three main areas: access, success, and performance accountability.

This paper explores whether dual enrollment helps students learn about the role of college student.

This working paper explores the impact of students' reasons for enrollment and educational expectations on their outcomes and, thus, on the performance of their college.

This working paper examines the validity of the Student Right-to-Know (SRK) graduation rates as measures of community college performance.

This chapter examines the extent to which career academies deliver on their promises.

This article describes how the missions of the community college have varied over time and across geographical regions, and examines how missions complement and conflict with one another.

This article explores the evolution of the workforce development role of the community college, its interactions with other missions of the college, and the current crisis facing workforce development.

This special issue of New Directions for Community Colleges aims to stimulate community college leaders to reexamine their institution’s functional missions in the context of the community college’s societal missions.

This literature review locates the sources of challenges to academic momentum in both student characteristics as well as state and institutional practices and policies.