CCRC in the News

Congress is considering expanding Pell Grants to short-term job training programs, but CCRC Senior Research Scholar Davis Jenkins told Inside Higher Ed that the credentials students earn from such programs aren't worth the cost of public investment.  

This Education Dive story summarizes CCRC's new short report on the state of liberal arts in community colleges. CCRC Research Affiliate Clive Belfield explained the relationship between automation and the popularity of humanities degrees. 

Innovation abounds at the City University of New York, and colleges around the country are taking notice. In this Inside Higher Ed story, CCRC Director Thomas Brock and CCRC Senior Research Associate Maria Cormier discuss some of the CUNY programs that are being replicated on other campuses, as well as CCRC's work evaluating its Accelerated Study in Associate Programs (ASAP) model.  

In this Chronicle of Higher Education story, CCRC Senior Research Scholar Nikki Edgecombe discusses the potential pitfalls of the emporium model, which relies on technology-based instruction and allows students to learn at their own pace, in developmental math courses. She said there's far too much variation in the design and implementation of the courses to evaluate the model effectively. 

The latest edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education's Teaching newsletter highlights CCRC's new working paper on how CUNY Start mathematics differs from traditional developmental education approaches and also features our teaching and learning blog series. 

The nonprofit Education at Work is helping undergraduates pay tuition bills by setting them up with jobs at companies near their colleges. Though research indicates students who work more than a handful of hours a week are more likely to fall behind in class, CCRC Senior Research Scholar Judith Scott-Clayton told the Hechinger Report that spending time at a job is a better use of time than playing video games, for example. 

In this CBS News segment about the benefits of a community college degree, CCRC Director Thomas Brock describes why a student may opt for a two-year institution over a four-year school. 

In light of billionaire Robert F. Smith's promise to pay off the student debt of the Morehouse class of 2019, CCRC Senior Research Scholar Judith Scott-Clayton spoke to the Wall Street Journal about the racial student loan gap and why HBCU graduates take on more student debt than their peers at elite private institutions.

This Inside Higher Ed story describes CCRC's new working paper on the incredibly diverse population of English learners at community colleges.

CCRC Senior Research Associate John Fink provides an overview of the community college transfer student experience and offers advice for students interested in pursuing a bachelor's degree in this Common Application blog post.