Publications

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.

This article calls for community colleges, on behalf of their students, to join the national discussion of how income and wealth are created.

This report provides an audit of state policies in Ohio affecting access to, and success in, community colleges for students of color and low-income students.

This report provides an audit of state policies in Connecticut affecting access to, and success in, community colleges for students of color and low-income students.

This article features findings from a commissioned audit of state policies on community college access, success, and accountability in seven states.

This paper presents findings from CCRC's study on the experiences and educational outcomes of older and younger community college students.

This article reports on a study that tracked the academic progress of a cohort of nursing aspirants over a three-year period.

The research described in this report uses student enrollment, credit accumulation, and outcome attainment data to assess the extent to which CUNY provides access to postsecondary educational opportunity and achievement for these students.

This article examines horizontal and vertical workforce transitions and how a global economy and the need to train new subpopulations of future workers will cause community colleges to approach their roles in workforce training differently.