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Can Educational Outcomes Be Improved in Community Colleges? Recent Evidence from Two Randomized Trials

Jan 22, 2008, 4:00-5:30 pm EST
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
Abstract: Community colleges today enroll over one-half of all college students nationwide or nearly 12 million students. And yet, fewer than 40% of those who start at a public two-year college earn any type of degree within six years. Even among those students who intend to complete a degree, only about one-third do so within six years.
Ford School
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Understanding Michigan’s Reconnect Program Applicants

October 30, 2025
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Brian Jacob, Kevin Stange, Alex Bartik, Brad Hershbein, Bryan Stuart
The Michigan Reconnect Program was launched in 2021, providing free community college tuition to Michiganders who are 25 or older and who have not already earned a college degree. In this report, the authors summarize the characteristics of individua...
Postsecondary preparation & success

Go Blue Community College Project

The barriers facing community college students are numerous. An elite higher education institution, like the University of Michigan, can play a transformative role in the economic mobility of low-income students through programs like HAIL Scholars, but relatively few low-income students ever matriculate at such institutions. Community colleges are  good places to find high-achieving, low-income students who would benefit from further enrollment at institutions like U-M. In this project, researchers will develop and implement a randomized controlled trial of an intervention that aims to increas...