Community College Blog

3 mistakes you may be making in your strategic planning

Avoid these three common barriers preventing community colleges from achieving the goals set in their strategic plans.

Guided Pathways is a seismic shift—here’s how to make sense of it

Guided Pathways is a seismic shift for community colleges - learn how to scale implementation using pre-existing data.

3 ways to ensure college credit for life experiences

Community college students often follow a non-linear path to graduation. Learn three ways to ensure credit for their professional, military, and life experiences, ultimately reducing their time to degree.

How holistic advising helps students find balance

Learn how a holistic advising approach promotes student success, including how it helped community college students achieve the balance they need to persist.

Turn dual-enrollment into meaningful college preparatory programs

Design an early alert system faculty will actually use

Whether designing your new early alert system or evaluating your current system, there are guidelines to follow to help your institution improve its use of early alert systems.

What we can learn from Guided Pathways skeptics

Behind the scenes, many college leaders express feelings of anxiety about implementing an ambitious new model for student success on their campuses that they felt ill-prepared to execute, or at least execute well.

Why federal financial aid isn’t enough for college students

What’s more personal than money? The dollar bill, dinero, dough, or green—no matter what you call it, money (or the lack of it) can make your life great, manageable, or downright tough. As one who has experienced the highs and lows of cash, I’ve seen how finances can cause people to withdraw from life or, on the flipside, find creative ways to get the resources they need.

How three simple community college onboarding changes turned into $70K

At Danville Community College, leaders uncovered three barriers facing students upon entry, and worked with EAB to streamline the student experience. The result? An increase in applicant-to-enrollee conversion in the first semester alone, resulting in nearly $70K in additional revenue—just from better front-end processes.