Two-year community colleges enroll nearly half of all first-time undergraduates in the United
States, but to ambiguous effect: low persistence rates and the potential for diverting students …

The increasing tension between the perceived necessity of a college degree and the
challenge of paying for it has led to a proliferation of financial aid policy in the United States …

This paper examines how the pandemic impacted the enrollment patterns, fields of study,
and academic outcomes of students in the California Community College System, the …

Community college completion rates are low, especially among low‐income students. The
existing policy and research attention has primarily focused on academic and financial …

Promise programs are proliferating across the United States, with wide variation in their
design. Using national data on 33 Promise programs affecting single, 2-year colleges, this …

Early research on the returns to higher education treated the postsecondary system as a
monolith. In reality, postsecondary education in the United States and around the world is …

This chapter examines the condition of equity in the financing of community colleges in the
United States, conceptualizing equity in resource distribution and in opportunities for civic …

As tuition-free college policies spread rapidly across the states, an increasingly important
policy debate has emerged regarding the optimal policy design of tuition-free college …

Promise programs, or place-based tuition-free college policies, have become increasingly
popular among policymakers looking to expand postsecondary attainment. In this article, we …

As college promise programs proliferate across the United States with noted intentions to
promote access through increased affordability, it is necessary to understand the …