Emerging early college models are providing opportunities for high school students to accrue college credits and experience themselves as successful college students. The states of Michigan and New York are at the forefront of state-level efforts to offer early college models to a wider range of high school students.
This chapter features early college models and describes the variety of programmatic designs and student experiences.
This chapter appears in New Directions for Community Colleges, vol. 2015, no. 169.