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CCSSE's latest survey measuring the five categories linked to student engagement: academic challenge, active and collaborative learning, student-faculty interaction, student effort and support for learners.

Read the USA Today Article

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Tools for Developmental Education

*Check out all the Bridges toolkits here

The Developmental Education toolkit provides an overview of developmental education data and challenges with tools for analysis and discussion on college readiness, postsecondary transition, programming, financing and student financial aid, and performance accountability.

Listen to toolkit author Thomas Greene, Ph.D., Jim Applegate from the Lumina Foundation and Byron McClenney of the University of Texas at Austin walk through the challenges faced and resources available in our archive of the live Webinar from September 16, 2008.

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The Significance of Subbaccalaureate Certificates to Community Colleges

This presentation looks at the impact and function of community colleges in America's economy.

Opportunity is heating up at Green River Community College and students in the fire training program are becoming a part of their community's greatest assets and most important first responders.

 

"It's hard to imagine where I'd be..." Green River Community College's Fire Training Program provides non-traditional students with the tools they need for a career in wildlife fire fighting. View our Profiles of Opportunity video of one student, whose experience at the college provided her with a second chance at an active and exciting career.

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Publications

Bridges to Opportunity for Underprepared Adults A State Policy Guide for Community College Leaders provides strategies, tools and case studies to improve education and employment outcomes for educationally and economically disadvantaged adults.

Click here to request a copy of the publication.

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A key aspect of community college vitality lies in its stakeholders.

Click here to view our report, Engaging Stakeholders for Community College Success, which highlights case statements from our grantees on effective stakeholder development.

 

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