Student Enrollment and Retention
How Community Colleges Can Bring Adults Back to Campus
A new playbook from New America demonstrates how community colleges can re-enroll and better serve adult students.
The Future of College Promise
Reflecting on the progress of the national College Promise movement on the eight-year anniversary of the Obama Administration’s unveiling of the America's College Promise proposal.
Two-year college completion rate increases again – Community College Daily
The average completion rate for community colleges continues its upward trend, according to a new report from the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) Research Center. While the overall national postsecondary education six-year completion rate for the...
Digital Equity: Supporting Digital Inclusion Efforts for Learners
Access to affordable broadband is a challenge for many rural communities. While this challenge has been known to many, the digital inequities for rural communities were amplified throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. During our Peer Learning Network discussion, we were able to collaborate with and learn from rural community college leaders about how they are supporting digital inclusion efforts for learners and students on their campus.
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.
