Community colleges have wide ranging missions, reflecting the varied aspirations of students they serve. No matter why someone attends community college, each of the student groups – credit-bearing, dual enrollment, and noncredit students – has a different goal for their education and needs different supports from their institution to be successful.
The reality is that not every state funds community colleges in a way that reflects this multi-faceted mission. The Association of Community College Trustees partnered with the Student Success Through Applied Research (SSTAR) Lab, the American Association of Community Colleges and the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association in research funded by Lumina Foundation to increase awareness about funding inequalities across student enrollment groups.
Join us for a webinar with the research team that discusses an initial overview of a brief that explores how states fund each enrollment group and the launch of a data dashboard that describes specific funding policies and funding levels for each state.