Publications

This report provides quantitative evidence on faculty views about institutional mission. A brief of the report is also available for download.

This book chapter, published in Learning.Now: Skills for an Information Economy, discusses the increasing need for information-based workforce preparation in community colleges.

This book chapter discusses the controversial issue of multiple missions of community colleges in the age of digital technology.

This report presents case studies of seven community colleges that used curriculum and pedagogy to integrate academic and occupational education.

This article analyzes the content, origins, and impact of the community college's growing involvement in contracting with employers to train current or prospective employees in job and academic skills.

This paper analyzes the new economic role of the community college by examining its role in workforce development for five different industries.

This paper examines four community colleges in the United States and Europe and their role in local economic development.

This book addresses the why and how of vocational education evaluation, and discusses the use and abuse of available evaluation results in policymaking.

This paper and related brief discuss the problem of high school students' failure to prepare for college demands; policy reforms are suggested.

This CCRC brief discusses labor market outcome findings from five states that are in the lead in using Unemployment Insurance (UI) data.