Bringing a more diverse student body into the world of higher education is important, and a number of organizations have teamed up "to help more students reach their individual goals, which may include earning a community college certificate or degree." The organizations involved with the "Achieving the Dream" initiative include The American Association of Community Colleges and The Community...

How do students learn on community college campuses? It's a great question and one that forms the basis of this Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching report. Released in July 2014, this report from Scott Strother and Nicole Sowers looks at how students in community colleges work to complete developmental mathematics courses. The Pathways program created by the Carnegie Foundation is...

With the increasing cost of four-year colleges, as well as some stats that show wages of graduates from two-year colleges can outpace those with bachelor's degrees, community colleges are becoming more popular every year. The Community College Research Center at Columbia University has its finger on the pulse of this trend. With a refreshingly open source attitude, the center offers recently...

The Community College Research Center (CCRC) at Columbia University's Teachers College describes itself as "the leading independent authority on the nation's nearly 1,200 two-year colleges." Since 1996, the CCRC has conducted research on these institutions with the aim of aiding policy makers and community college staff alike. These reports may especially be of interest to administrators, grant...

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been working on a number of reports on how to strengthen pre-collegiate education in community colleges, and this compelling work represents part of their most recent findings on the subject. Authored by Andrea Conklin Bueschel, this 24-page report draws on interviews with students, community college leaders, teachers, and others to look...