This chapter discusses the challenges of community colleges, trends leading to enrollment growth, and the controversy over mission expansion and offers suggestions for reform. A brief version is also available.
This book chapter examines the rise of the school-to-work movement in the late 1980s and continued throughout the 1990s, and discusses work-based learning pedagogies.
This article provides information on two major settings for literacy education for adults: adult basic education and community college remedial programs.
CCRC Brief No. 13 focuses on immigrant enrollment in community colleges and two-year associate degree programs in City University of New York (CUNY) senior colleges.
This monograph explores the nurse licensure debate, what is known about the programmatic differences between pre-licensure programs, and research on the job performance of ADN- and BSN-educated nurses.
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.
This nine-part series presents case material from a study of curriculum and pedagogy for integrated instruction in seven community colleges across the country.
This book chapter, published in Higher Education in the United States: An Encyclopedia, provides an overview of occupational education in higher education.
This book chapter discusses issues pertaining to tech prep programs, which link students’ secondary and postsecondary education experiences and help ...
This chapter discusses higher education policies and legislation, the social and economic philosophy behind higher education and open-admission policies, and challenges facing higher education.
In CCRC's 2002 newsletter, Director Thomas Bailey discusses the growing national interest in community colleges and reviews CCRC research comparing for-profit colleges and community colleges.
This chapter, published in Perspectives on the Community College: A Journey of Discovery, features a revealing discussion about the new roles of community colleges.
This book chapter discusses changing labor demands in the information economy and how workforce development at community colleges can meet those demands.
This article analyzes the roles of counselors in the Puente program, a high school intervention designed to improve guidance and counseling for disadvantaged high school students.
This journal article discusses a study that investigated the effects of task repetition on the writing skills of upper level developmental reading students.
This chapter discusses community college policy issues and provides readers with an in-depth discussion of research questions and methodological perspectives.
