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Download full textColin Hill; Kayla Warner; Colleen Sommo – MDRC, 2025
Obtaining a degree from a community college is a strong pathway to numerous career opportunities for students from low-income backgrounds. Unfortunately, graduation rates from community colleges are often very low, so many students do not reap the benefits of a degree. With the goal of increasing graduation rates, three community colleges in…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Graduation Rate, Acceleration (Education), Models
Lena Novak; Claudia Escobar; Noor Amanullah; Makoto Toyoda; Rebekah O’Donoghue – MDRC, 2025
In the United States, many community college students--about 68 percent--enroll part-time, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. Unfortunately, graduation rates for part-time students are low. Only 19 percent of people who begin attending community college as part-time students graduate within six years, compared with 36…
Descriptors: Part Time Students, Community College Students, Educational Practices, Academic Persistence
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Most students who begin at a community college do not complete their desired credential. Many students fail to graduate due to various barriers other than their academic performance. To encourage previously successful non-completers to re-enroll and eventually graduate, a growing number of community colleges have implemented re-enrollment…
Descriptors: Community College Students, College Enrollment, Dropouts, Academic Persistence
Stephanie Petrov; Amanda Briggs; Shayne Spaulding – Urban Institute, 2025
In 2022, Corporation for a Skilled Workforce launched Advancing Community Equity and Upward Mobility (ACE-UP), a community of practice aimed at designing and elevating strategies for community colleges and their industry partners to develop more inclusive workplaces and bolster students' academic and career outcomes. This brief describes final…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Community Colleges, School Business Relationship, Program Effectiveness
California Community Colleges, Chancellor's Office, 2025
The California Community Colleges Homeless and Housing Insecurity Program was created to address the significant and growing number of students experiencing homelessness and housing insecurity. In response to the significant and still growing number of college students experiencing homelessness and housing insecurity in California, the state…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Homeless People, Intervention, Community College Students
Micah C. Longjohn – Community College Enterprise, 2025
Higher education increasingly relies on remedial coursework to bridge knowledge gaps among incoming students (Chen, 2016). Students assessed as below college level enroll in remediation to review secondary concepts, especially in mathematics (Kane et al., 2020). However, pressures over funding, student persistence, and completion rates exacerbate…
Descriptors: Remedial Instruction, Remedial Mathematics, College Faculty, Community Colleges
California Community Colleges, Chancellor's Office, 2025
The Student Equity and Achievement (SEA) Program was established during the 2018-19 legislative and budget cycle by the California State Legislature and Administration to consolidate funding for three interrelated categorical programs: the Basic Skills Initiative, the Student Equity Program, and the Student Success and Support Program. Pursuant to…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Academic Achievement, Community Colleges, Guided Pathways
Federick Ngo; Tatiana Melguizo – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2025
AB705 is a landmark higher education policy that has changed approaches to developmental/remedial education in the California Community College system. We study one district that implemented reforms by placing most students in transfer-level math/English courses and encouraging enrollment in support courses based on multiple measures of academic…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Remedial Instruction, Educational Change, College Mathematics
Cyrette Saunier; Susan Scrivener; Austin Slaughter; Noor Amanullah; Sukanya Barman; Cynthia Miller; Colleen Sommo; Erick Alonzo, Contributor; Osvaldo Avila, Contributor; Katie Beal, Contributor; Parker Cellura, Contributor; Ben Cohen, Contributor; Stanley Dai, Contributor; Hannah Dalporto, Contributor; Claudia Escobar, Contributor; Colin Hill, Contributor; Marco Lepe, Contributor; Tiffany Morton, Contributor; Rebekah O’Donoghue, Contributor; Vivianna Plancarte, Contributor; Alyssa Ratledge, Contributor; Elena Serna-Wallender, Contributor; Andrea Vasquez, Contributor; Rae Walker, Contributor; Michelle Ware, Contributor; Kayla Warner, Contributor; Melissa Wavelet, Contributor; Michael Weiss, Contributor; Diane Wren, Contributor – MDRC, 2025
Community colleges and broad-access universities (those with minimally selective admissions policies) provide an opportunity for students across the United States to attain postsecondary degrees and achieve economic mobility. However, graduation rates from such colleges are often low and there are many obstacles that can be difficult to…
Descriptors: Intervention, Academic Persistence, Program Development, Costs
California Community Colleges, Chancellor's Office, 2025
The Strong Workforce Program has been instrumental in creating and expanding high-quality career technical education (CTE) programs at California community colleges, preparing students for living-wage careers. This report provides an account of the Strong Workforce Program for 2023-24, including details on its key components, investments and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Career and Technical Education, State Programs, Educational Finance
California Community Colleges, Chancellor's Office, 2025
Education Code section 79511 requires the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office to submit a report each year on the the Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Student Achievement Program (AANHPI SAP). The AANHPI SAP is in its second year of implementation with 50 colleges participating. Before the full implementation in the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Program Administration, Program Effectiveness, Resource Allocation
Celeste J. Carmichael; Samson O. Adeoye; Jama S. Coartney; Donna M. Westfall-Rudd; Megan M. Seibel; Amy White; Curtis R. Friedel; Israel O. Oyedare; Eric K. Kaufman – NACTA Journal, 2025
The evolving demands of the agricultural workforce require skills beyond traditional technical expertise, including communication, teamwork, adaptability, and self-management. These employability skills are critical for fostering innovation and addressing the complexities of modern agriculture. In support of helping community college faculty to…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Career Readiness, Employment Potential, Job Skills
Nancy Hoffman – Jobs for the Future, 2025
The Humanities to Career initiative is grounded in the belief that the study of the humanities/liberal arts (HLA) can be an asset in preparation for technical and professional careers. Lorain County Community College, in Elyria, Ohio; Bunker Hill Community College, in Boston; and Northern Virginia Community College, located outside of Washington,…
Descriptors: Microcredentials, Community College Students, Community Colleges, Humanities
Marcela G. Cuellar; Nancy Acevedo – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2025
Community colleges remain a primary pathway into higher education for Black and Latine students. Black and Latine community enrollment acutely declined during COVID-19, largely reflecting the pandemic's disproportionate impact on these communities of color. While enrollment has since rebounded, it is also important for community college leaders to…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community College Students, African American Students, Hispanic American Students
Monica W. Walker; Stacie A. Miller; Adrianne S. Washington – Teaching and Learning Excellence through Scholarship, 2023
For over 2 decades, the Learning Community Program has impacted students at the Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC), with its emphasis on critical thinking, community, belonging, and student success. Faculty teaching this high-impact practice (HIP) not only implement an integrated curriculum in 2 paired courses representing different…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Communities of Practice, College Programs, Critical Thinking
