Community College Research Center

I am speaking at 2025 COABE National Conference. Please check out my talk if you're attending the event! @COABEHQ #COABE2025 - via #Whova event app

Register today for our webinar with SRI on how colleges can support student success in online learning. The April 3 webinar by the Postsecondary Teaching with Technology Collaborative, a partnership of CCRC, SRI Education, Achieving the Dream, and colleges across the U.S., will dive into how to promote students' motivation and engagement in online courses and develop their skills to manage their learning.

Let's turn our gaze from the political theater in Washington to the actual work of higher education. In San Antonio, Texas, the Alamo Colleges District is beefing up counseling for community college students, working to ensure that students are able to align academic choices with career goals, and pushing to facilitate credit transfer for those pursuing bachelor's degrees in nearby public universities. They call it "guided pathways." An enlightening article on all this below from Robb Mandelbaum in Bloomberg News. Good things are happening. Love these ideas, and love most the focus on serving students maximally at all points in life. It *really* helps when 2-year colleges and 4-year colleges and universities can get on the same page. Look, there are no miracle policies that fix everything overnight. There is only hard work and dedication to making systems work better to help students get where they want to go. (It takes funding, too.) Alamo Colleges, building America. Community colleges, building America. #HigherEdBuildsAmerica The American Council on Education urges all friends of higher education to join together. Now is the moment. Coalitions matter. Let your elected representatives, state and federal, know where we stand.

A recent newsletter from The Chronicle of Higher Education focuses on campuses as a career launchpad and features CCRC's Judith Scott-Clayton on the topic of work-study. It’s not altogether clear that a work-study job?has?to be connected to a career goal, Scott-Clayton said. Research on the program suggests that one of its key values is “as a kind of starter job,” she said, “this professional setting where it’s explicitly acknowledged that your studies still come first.”

Join Jeff Selingo and CCRC's John Fink for Next's Office Hour on Wednesday, March 19th to receive practical guidance for navigating dual enrollment options. Issues covered will include: - Understanding the different types of dual enrollment programs available. - Tips for ensuring dual enrollment credits will transfer and apply to future college degree programs. - Strategies for using dual enrollment to explore potential college majors and career paths while still in high school. Register here: https://lnkd.in/dvyU3_r6

Hope you can attend Education and Employment Research Center, Rutgers University Community College Leadership webinar on Tue, March 25th at 1 Eastern. Lawrence Nespoli and I will be joined by John Fink and Mark McCormick will discuss trends in dual enrollment. Register here: https://lnkd.in/exkzW9ij

?? New CAPR blog post! ?? MDRC’s Intervention ROI tool is a free interactive web application that allows community college administrators to estimate the costs and revenues associated with implementing an intervention at their college, including two studied by CAPR. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/ej-WsCuN

CCRC is now on Instagram! ? Give @communityccrc a follow for updates on all our publications, blog posts, and more! https://lnkd.in/eNyWcrBa

Through April 2025, Strada Education Foundation is surveying students at public four-year and two-year institutions in every state to understand their experiences with two effective practices: education-to-career guidance and work-based learning. Institutions who participate in the 2025 survey will receive their students’ results and accompanying data files. Aggregated student results at the state level will be publicly reported in October 2025 as part of the State Opportunity Index (https://lnkd.in/g2JSAbMW). Learn more: https://lnkd.in/exvPjcbK For more information, please email [email protected]

?? New CCRC blog post! ?? Read about CCRC's sessions at DREAM 2025, where researchers and partners shared how they are working with colleges and state systems on the next generation of student success research, including transfer, guided pathways, dual enrollment, post-completion value of programs, and online learning. https://lnkd.in/ewxUrCbH