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Dunham, Kate; Negoita, Marian – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2021
In this chapter, we draw on the data collected during our evaluations of six TAACCCT grants to describe the challenges, successes, and transformative effect of adopting a developmental evaluation approach for community college programs.
Descriptors: Data Collection, Program Evaluation, Grants, Community Colleges
Perna, Laura W.; Wright-Kim, Jeremy; Leigh, Elaine W. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2021
Although "free tuition" programs are politically popular, some worry that these programs will exacerbate inequity. Scholars note that program outcomes depend on implementation, but few have probed the contextual conditions that contribute to differences in implementation or the consequences of implementation for equity. To address this…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Programs, Equal Education, Program Implementation
Kim, Jeanette; Simon, Mia; Horenstein, Aaron; Webber, Althea J. – Grantee Submission, 2020
The City University of New York (CUNY) is the largest urban public university system in the United States with approximately 100,000 students enrolled in associate degree programs. Similar to trends nationwide, many associate degree students come to CUNY underprepared for college-level classes and are assigned to take remedial or developmental…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Change, Developmental Studies Programs, Urban Universities
Romano, Richard M.; D'Amico, Mark M. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2021
Multiple studies show that outcomes, whether they be better degree completion rates or successful short-term workforce training, are negatively affected by inadequate funding (Kahlenberg, 2015). To bolster their case for underfunding, researchers and college advocacy groups produce studies that rely on an important federal dataset--the Integrated…
Descriptors: Data, Federal Programs, Community Colleges, Full Time Students
Miller, Cynthia; Cohen, Benjamin; Yang, Edith; Pellegrino, Lauren – MDRC, 2020
College students have a better chance of succeeding in school when they receive high-quality advising. High-quality advising, when characterized by frequent communications between advisers and students, early outreach to students showing signs of academic or nonacademic struggles, and personalized guidance that addresses individual student needs,…
Descriptors: College Students, Academic Advising, Technology Uses in Education, Faculty Advisers
Buckwalter, Veronica; Maag, Taylor – Jobs for the Future, 2019
This report examines the structural divide between for-credit and noncredit postsecondary education and the problems it presents for people seeking better jobs with higher pay. It highlights innovative ways that some community colleges are trying to bridge the gap nationally--creating more seamless pathways between credit and noncredit…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Adults, College Credits, Noncredit Courses
Pizzolato, Jane Elizabeth; Olson, Avery B. – Journal of College Student Development, 2016
Through a year-long study of welfare-to-work students in the community college CalWORKs program, we investigated what self-authorship development looks like by examining developmental progress, and whether there are patterns in development along the three dimensions of self-authorship. Findings demonstrate progress toward self-authorship, but…
Descriptors: Individual Development, Welfare Recipients, Welfare Services, Poverty Programs
White, Chaunté; Cruse, Lindsey Reichlin – Institute for Women's Policy Research, 2021
Higher education is essential to accessing high-demand jobs with family-supporting wages and improving family financial wellbeing. This was true before the COVID-19 pandemic and is especially true now as the nation continues the process of recovering from one of the worst public health, economic, and social crises in modern U.S. history. To…
Descriptors: State Policy, College Students, Parents, COVID-19
Love, Ivy; Palmer, Iris – New America, 2020
As additional states embark on the process of implementing four-year degrees at community colleges, they can learn from others' experience for help navigating the legislative, regulatory, and program approval processes. This brief uses examples from states currently offering bachelor's degrees at their community colleges to provide guidance for…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Bachelors Degrees, State Policy, Educational Policy
Graham, Edmund; McCambly, Heather – Office of Community College Research and Leadership, 2016
One of the driving forces behind the design of the Pathways to Results (PTR) initiative is to dismantle and redesign systems to produce equitable outcomes. This notion of systems producing the exact outcomes for which they were designed can also be applied to the Pathways to Results methodology itself. After five years of leading PTR initiatives…
Descriptors: Interviews, Focus Groups, Teamwork, Partnerships in Education
Walton, Douglas; Judkins, David; Kolenikov, Stas; Schalk, Marci; Smith, Adrienne – Abt Associates, 2020
This document includes seven technical appendices that accompany the main report, "Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training Grant Program: Round 4 Early Outcomes Study Report." The appendices include: (1) Baseline Data; (2) Follow-up Survey Data; (3) Unemployment Insurance Wage Data; (4) Service Impacts; (5)…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Career Development, Grants, Federal Programs
Radwin, David; Horn, Laura – RTI International, 2014
As the nation's largest provider of postsecondary education, community colleges are instrumental to workforce development, but measuring student outcomes is challenging after students have left for the workplace. Many states use existing administrative data such as unemployment insurance records to calculate employment outcomes at minimal marginal…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Labor Force Development, Career Readiness, Postsecondary Education
Baber, Lorenzo DuBois – Community College Review, 2018
Objective: Despite significant attention from federal and state policy makers, postsecondary completion rates in the United States remain stratified across race and socioeconomic background. This study examines a community-based college readiness program for underrepresented students from low-resource neighborhoods in Chicago, Illinois. Method:…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Transitional Programs
White, Chaunté; Cruse, Lindsey Reichlin – Institute for Women's Policy Research, 2021
As the Biden-Harris administration seeks to hasten the country's recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, reforming the U.S. higher education system to ensure equitable access and attainment for all adults is more important than ever. Most student parents are mothers, students of color, adult and working learners, students with low incomes, and…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Higher Education, Parents
Wilder Research, 2021
Opportunity America received a grant from Lumina Foundation to conduct a national research study of community colleges' credit and noncredit occupational education programs and their relationships with employers. Opportunity America contracted with Wilder Research to manage data collection and analysis for the study. The purpose of this study was…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Vocational Education, Job Training, Noncredit Courses