The Mixed Methods Blog

Perspectives from our researchers, highlights from recent studies, and other news about CCRC

How Many Community Colleges Fully Recovered Their Enrollments Three Years After the Pandemic? Too Few.

How Many Community Colleges Fully Recovered Their Enrollments Three Years After the Pandemic? Too Few.
Newly released fall 2023 enrollment numbers offer the most detailed look yet at how individual community colleges and state systems have fared since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using interactive data dashboards, users can explore trends among student subgroups in particular states and institutions.

Funding Community Colleges After HEERF

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Using newly released institutional data from IPEDS, this blog post details how community college revenues have changed now that pandemic-related Higher Education Emergency Relief funds have ended.

Text for Success: Moorpark College’s Innovative Tutoring Program Improves Math and English Completion Rates

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Jamie Whittington-Studer and Crystal Salas of Moorpark College explore key takeaways from their college's implementation of a tutoring program that makes reaching out for support as simple as sending a text.

Aftershocks: How the Pandemic Affected Community College Finances

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Four years after the initial COVID-19 outbreak, information showing how funding for community colleges was affected by the pandemic is now available. In this blog post, the authors highlight some overall findings from a newly released Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) dataset.

Aligning Jobs Training to the Opportunities and Demands of the Green Economy

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As part of an applied research agenda to build knowledge and tools to support community colleges in preparing students for high-value jobs in the green economy, CCRC is partnering with the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, to conduct a one-year landscape study of green training programs at U.S. community colleges.