Student Enrollment and Retention
Community colleges foster racial and gender equity in the manufacturing workforce
Women and people of color are underrepresented in the manufacturing workforce. Community colleges aim to foster better racial and gender equity.
“They Need to be Connected:” Furthering College Completion, Including through Adult Reengagement, through Degrees When Due
Today, more than 39 million Americans have some college credit, but no awarded degree and, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, millions more did not enroll to begin their higher education journey. In 2018, well before the pandemic began, IHEP launched the Degrees When Due (DWD) initiative to reengage the “some college, no degree” (SCND) population.
These Community Colleges are Working to Bring Adults Back to Campus
The Center on Education & Labor at New America has partnered with six community colleges to help re-enroll adult students who have stopped out of college since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic
