Six strategies community colleges are using to help bring students back & stay enrolled

Enrollment is down almost ten percent across community colleges. This spring, declining enrollment has continued disproportionately impacting Indigenous, Black, and Latino students. We wanted to know how colleges are working to bring students--who have left or decided not to attend college--back to school. New America spoke with leaders representing over 20 community colleges, tribal colleges, community college associations, and state systems over the spring, summer, and fall of 2020. Last week, we convened a group of sixteen of these leaders to see how their institutions are currently faring and what their plans are for the fall.