Recent research on the California community college system has revealed that workforce training programs yield some of the highest earnings for community college students, regardless of whether those students complete [...]
Information Communication Technologies Study
The purpose of this study is to inform the development and improvement of ICT educational pathways and career preparation in California. AT&T, LICI, and the research team envision an integrated [...]
Toward a Vision of Accelerated Curriculum & Pedagogy: High Challenge, High Support Classrooms for Underprepared Students
The movement to reform remedial education is spurred by three important trends in the national research on community colleges: 1) studies showing that huge numbers of students drop out before [...]
The Missing Piece: Quantifying Non-Completion Pathways to Success
Increasingly, community colleges are measuring success by the outcomes their students achieve, in addition to the number of students they serve. The national push for completion of degrees, certificates, and [...]
Changing Equations: How Community Colleges are Re-thinking College Readiness in Math
Because of their high enrollment and generally low completion rates, community colleges have been identified as central to efforts to improve higher education outcomes. But that improvement won’t be realized [...]
Diagnostic Assessment: Challenges & Opportunities for the California Community Colleges
In January 2012, the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges adopted recommendations from the legislatively mandated Student Success Task Force. They included a recommendation that California’s community colleges [...]
What’s Completion Got To Do With It?: Using Course-Taking Behavior to Understand Community College Success
California’s community college system encompasses a broad-ranging vision for higher education. Students are able to access a diversity of programs including an affordable alternative for the first years of a [...]
Rethinking Basic Skills Education in California: Principles for Policymakers
California’s future prosperity and competitiveness depends to an important degree on our ability to increase the share of basic skills students who attain a community college degree or certificate and/or [...]