DEEP Insights: Redesigning Dual Enrollment as a Purposeful Pathway to College and Career Opportunity
DEEP Insights: Redesigning Dual Enrollment as a Purposeful Pathway to College and Career Opportunity By John Fink, Sarah Griffin, Aurely Garcia Tulloch, Davis Jenkins, Maggie P. Fay, Cat Ramirez, Lauren Schudde & Jessica Steiger Dual enrollment equity pathways (DEEP) is a research-based framework for rethinking dual enrollment as a more equitable on-ramp to college programs […]
Rethinking Dual Enrollment as an Equitable On-Ramp to a Career-Path College Degree Program After High School
Rethinking Dual Enrollment as an Equitable On-Ramp to a Career-Path College Degree Program After High School By John Fink & Davis Jenkins Dual enrollment (DE), in which high school students take college courses and earn both high school and college credit, has great potential to help make the high-school-to-college transition more effective and equitable—and to […]
Greater Equity in College Access Through High School/College Dual Enrollment Programs
Greater Equity in College Access Through High School/College Dual Enrollment Programs By John Fink This brief, published by the Campaign for College Opportunity, summarizes the research on dual enrollment programs-programs which allow high school students to enroll in college coursework through a partnering college or university-and offers policymakers a strategy to increase college enrollment via […]
Dually Noted: Understanding the Link Between Dual Enrollment Course Characteristics and Students’ Course and College Enrollment Outcomes
Dually Noted: Understanding the Link Between Dual Enrollment Course Characteristics and Students’ Course and College Enrollment Outcomes By Wonson Ryu, Lauren Schudde & Kim Pack-Cosme Although dual enrollment programming and interest in how that programming shapes students’ college outcomes have expanded considerably in the past 20 years, policymakers, educational administrators, and practitioners do not have […]
Assessing College-Credit-in-High-School Programs as On-Ramps to Postsecondary Career Pathways for Underrepresented Students
Assessing College-Credit-in-High-School Programs as On-Ramps to Postsecondary Career Pathways for Underrepresented Students By Jessica Steiger, John Fink & Davis Jenkins Research shows that earning college credit while in high school increases students’ chances of going to college directly after high school and of earning a college credential. Research also makes clear, however, that access to […]
How Can Community Colleges Afford to Offer Dual Enrollment College Courses to High School Students at a Discount?
How Can Community Colleges Afford to Offer Dual Enrollment College Courses to High School Students at a Discount? By Clive Benfield, Davis Jenkins & John Fink Dual enrollment—in which students take college credit-bearing courses when still in high school—is becoming increasingly popular. Community college programs account for about 70% of the dual enrollment that more […]
The Impact of Dual Enrollment on College Application Choice and Admission Success
The Impact of Dual Enrollment on College Application Choice and Admission Success By Vivian Yuen Ting Liu, Veronica Minaya & Di Xu Dual enrollment is one of the fastest growing programs that support the high school-to-college transition. Yet, there is limited empirical evidence about its impact on either students’ college application choices or admission outcomes. […]
The Role of Higher Education in High School Math Reform
The Role of Higher Education in High School Math Reform By Elisabeth A. Barnett, Maggie P. Fay, Cynthia Liston & Ryan Reyna Change in high school math depends a great deal on policies, practices, and norms at the higher education level. To better understand this topic, researchers from the Community College Research Center (CCRC) and […]
Happy Together? The Peer Effects of Dual Enrollment Students on Community College Student Outcomes
Happy Together? The Peer Effects of Dual Enrollment Students on Community College Student Outcomes By Vivian Yuen Ting Liu & Di Xu Nationally, 15% of first-time community college students were high school students taking college coursework through dual enrollment in the fall of 2010, and the percentage has risen since then. The growing numbers of […]
College Acceleration for All? Mapping Racial/Ethnic Gaps in Advanced Placement and Dual Enrollment Participation
College Acceleration for All? Mapping Racial/Ethnic Gaps in Advanced Placement and Dual Enrollment Participation By Di Xu, John Fink & Sabrina Solanki This paper estimates the patterns and sources of White–Black and White–Hispanic enrollment gaps in Advancement Placement (AP) and dual enrollment programs across several thousand school districts and metropolitan areas in the United States. […]