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Scaling Dual Enrollment Equity Pathways to College and Career Success

September 2021–August 2024

Dual enrollment helps millions of high school students get on a path to college each year. Nationally, 82% of public high schools offer dual enrollment coursework, mostly in partnership with community colleges. As a result of its reach, dual enrollment has great potential to reduce equity gaps by race and family income in college-going and degree attainment. Yet, rather than advance equitable college access and success, the conventional approach to dual enrollment tends to reinforce inequities in the high-school-to-college transition. In fact, four of every five school districts have racial equity gaps in access to dual enrollment.

In this project, CCRC will work in Florida and Texas to expand efforts by community colleges and their K-12 partners to extend equity-focused guided pathways practices to dual enrollment students from underserved groups. This approach, which CCRC calls “dual enrollment equity pathways” or DEEP, emerged at early-adopter guided pathways colleges through fieldwork for the Dual Enrollment Playbook (co-authored with the Aspen Institute) and other guided pathways projects.

Through DEEP, colleges and their K-12 partners better utilize dual enrollment to expand college and career opportunities. They deliberately reach out to and support low-income and racially minoritized students to take dual enrollment courses that will help them build postsecondary momentum through high-quality college instruction and alignment to their post-high school aspirations. This contrasts with the conventional, laissez-faire approach to dual enrollment, which mostly benefits students already likely to enroll and succeed in college.

In partnership with the Florida Student Success Center at the Florida Department of Education, the Texas Success Center at the Texas Association of Community Colleges, and Dr. Lauren Schudde of the University of Texas at Austin, CCRC will develop practitioner-oriented guidance materials and tools in three areas to support scaling of DEEP practices by colleges and schools in these and other states: implementation models; metrics for planning and evaluation; and costs, funding, and policy incentives. For each topic, we will develop guides for practitioners that will include case studies of colleges and schools, as well as planning tools and data templates. In a related project, CCRC will develop additional guidance for state policymakers on how they can support the scaling of DEEP practices across their states.

This project is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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September 2024

What Do Dual Enrollment Students Want? Elevating the Voices of Historically Underserved Students to Guide Reforms

July 2024

Dual Enrollment Equity Pathways: A Research-Based Framework for Expanding College and Career Opportunity for Underserved Students

October 2023

Greater Equity in College Access Through High School/College Dual Enrollment Programs

October 2023

Rethinking Dual Enrollment as an Equitable On-Ramp to a Career-Path College Degree Program After High School

October 2023

DEEP Insights: Redesigning Dual Enrollment as a Purposeful Pathway to College and Career Opportunity

May 2023

Dually Noted: Understanding the Link Between Dual Enrollment Course Characteristics and Students’ Course and College Enrollment Outcomes

February 2023

How Can Community Colleges Afford to Offer Dual Enrollment College Courses to High School Students at a Discount?

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Presentations

August 2024
August 20, 2024

What’s Next for Dual Enrollment?

February 2024
February 20, 2024

Redesigning Dual Enrollment Programs as an On-Ramp to High-Opportunity College and Career Pathways for Underserved Students

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Project Lead

October 2018
October 03, 2018

Davis Jenkins

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