Publications

This report discusses findings and recommendations from a study of the New York City Virtual Enterprises International program, in which students create and run virtual businesses.

This essay describes the characteristics of community college students and discusses the role of the community college in increasing access to higher education by traditionally underserved students.

This paper analyzes how effective ATE regional centers, which work with community colleges and businesses in a single region to improve technical education, have been in meeting their goals.

This report describes how Miami Dade College is using a variety of data to make better-informed choices about the operation of student programs and services.

This working paper provides a conceptual framework for the rigorous evaluation of remedial education interventions.

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.