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Equity

This section provides resources related to supporting students from traditionally underserved backgrounds in higher education including Black, Latinx, and Indigenous students. We encourage utilizing equity related to strategies to support your action plans across multiple areas including the K12 to community college pipeline, partway home students, retention/persistence, and completion. 

Reports and Data Resources:

North Carolina Leaky Pipeline Report
Tomorrow’s jobs increasingly demand a highly trained workforce. To meet projected demands, at least 60% of North Carolina workers will need a postsecondary degree...
Opportunity Insights
Our mission is to identify barriers to economic opportunity and develop scalable solutions that will empower people throughout the United States...
Economic Tracker
Explore the Opportunity Insights with the real-time Economic Tracker. Track the economic impacts of COVID-19 on people, businesses, and communities across the United States in real time.
Using Big Data Course
This page provides lecture materials and videos for a course taught by Raj Chetty and Greg Bruich at Harvard University entitled, "Using Big Data to Solve Economic and Social Problems."
CREED Equity Report
With the release of our two reports, “Deep Rooted: A Brief History of Race and Education” and “E(race)ing Inequities: The State of Racial Equity in North Carolina Public Schools,” we hope to initiate the kind of candid discussion that leads to intervention...
NCCC Equity Report
This report calls attention to patterns of inequity at the system and college levels by documenting gaps in access and academic progress across demographic populations, specifically race/ethnicity and gender. Word word
The Aspen Institute: Structural Equity
"Structural Equity: Big-Picture Thinking & Partnerships That Improve Community College Student Outcomes": Community colleges play a vital role in creating a more equitable society through educational opportunity...
Race and Ethnicity in Higher Ed
This page provides a data-informed foundation for those working to close persistent equity gaps by providing a glimpse into the educational pathways of today’s college students and the educators who serve them.
Meeting the Needs of Underserved Students
The 21st century college student population is the most diverse in our nation’s history, characterized by the intersection of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, family composition, age, and economic status among others. The benefits of heterogeneous environments are many. Research shows that...
Messaging to Underrepresented Populations
Based on focus groups and survey results, Aspen gained insights into how to message
the value of community college programs to opportunity youth, unemployed adults, and
underemployed adults. Based on those lessons, here is some guidance on how to talk about the programs your institution offers.

Equity-Focused National Organizations:

Complete College America
Mission: Established in 2009, Complete College America is a bold national advocate for dramatically increasing college completion rates and closing equity gaps by working with states, systems, institutions, and partners to scale highly effective structural reforms and promote policies that improve student success.
The Education Trust
Mission: The Education Trust is a national nonprofit that works to close opportunity gaps that disproportionately affect students of color and students from low-income families. Through our research and advocacy, Ed Trust supports efforts that expand excellence and equity in education from preschool through college...
Achieving the Dream
Mission: To lead and support a national network of community colleges to achieve sustainable institutional transformation through sharing knowledge, innovative solutions and effective practices and policies leading to improved outcomes for all students.
Frontier Set
The Frontier Set is a diverse set of high-performing two-and four-year colleges, universities, and state systems, all committed to significantly increasing student access and success and eliminating racial, ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in college attainment.

Equity-Focused Organizations in North Carolina:

Color of Education
Mission: Achieving racial equity in education across North Carolina through building connections and engagement across fields of research, policy and practice.
Center for Racial Equity in Education
Mission: Through research, coalition building, and technical assistance, the Center for Racial Equity in Education (CREED) works to close opportunity gaps for all children...

High School Students

This section provides resources related to recruitment of high school students upon graduation, specifically pertaining to those who intend to go to college but do not enroll. We encourage utilizing these resources to support strategies related to K-12 partnerships and increasing enrollment.

Reports and Data Resources:

Community College Research Center: Publications on the High School to College Transition
CCRC conducts research on programs and policies designed to prepare high school students for college, including short-term readiness programs as well as college-credit transition programs...
Education Commission of the States: 50-State Comparison: Dual/Concurrent Enrollment Policies
Education Commission of the States researched dual/concurrent enrollment policies in all states to provide this comprehensive resource. This resource includes policy found in...
Wheelhouse: A Leg Up on College
Full title: "A Leg Up on College
The Scale and Distribution of Community College Participation Among California High School Students." Research shows that dual enrollment—a practice in which high school students take college courses while they are still in high school—has multiple benefits for student success in both systems...

Partway Home

This section provides resources related to partway home students, or adult learners who have accumulated some college credit. We encourage utilizing these resources to support strategies related to increasing enrollment, retention/persistence, and completion.

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Statewide Partway Home Initiatives:

Labor Market Outcomes

In order to ensure that students are being placed upon completion, it is vital to use labor market outcomes to predict the institution’s geographic labor needs and support programs, certificates, and continuing education in those areas. We encourage utilizing these resources to support strategies related to transfer, workforce, and completion.

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Retention and Credential Completion

This section provides resources related to retention and credential completion for community college students. We encourage utilizing these resources to support strategies related to completion, retention, and persistence. 

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Student Services

Student services play a vital role in providing holistic support for students including academic advising, financial aid, and identity based programming. We encourage utilizing these resources to support strategies related to retention/persistence, the K12 to community college pipeline, partway home students, and completion.

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