Accountability
Students, Families and Businesses Deserve Better Info on Community Colleges: Pass the College Transparency Act!
College Transparency Act, a bill that would better capture the community college population when collecting data for the student-level data network. This is an exciting week for community colleges, their students, supporters, and employer partners. After many years, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee plans to vote on the bipartisan College Transparency Act, a bill that would better capture the community college population when collecting data for the student-level data network.
Community College Presidents and Trustees Invited to Complete National Survey on Economic Development
New America & ACCT announce a first-of-its-kind national survey to understand the role of community college trustees and presidents in building capacity for economic and workforce development.
Debunking Myths on Student Parent Data Collection
This piece was co-written with the Urban Institute as a Student-Parent Action through Research Knowledge (SPARK) collaboration, which aims to build evidence and make the case for policy change to support pregnant and parenting students and their families through data, research, lived/living expertise, and past learning, while developing future generations of leaders.
Data-Informed Trusteeship: A New Learning Opportunity To Strengthen Board Leadership
Achieving the Dream (ATD) have partnered to launch a new asynchronous online course: Data-Informed Policy and Decision-Making for College Trustees. Designed specifically for trustees who wish to deepen their dialogue with their senior leadership team."
Analysis: Low-income community college students most likely to report canceling college plans
The pandemic is widening equity gaps as more low-income students and students of color leave higher ed.
New Federal Survey Data Show the Pandemic Has Hit Would-Be College Students Hard
Predictions for the effects of the pandemic on students enrolled in education after high school were grim from the outset — and new survey data from the Census Bureau confirm that.
