Strategic Enrollment Management

April 2015 Report
A growing number of states allow community colleges to award bachelor's degrees as one strategy to meet workforce demands, address affordability, and increase access to educational opportunities. Offering bachelor's degrees traditionally has been the domain of four-year institutions, while community colleges have been established to award associate degrees and certificates. Further, community colleges have served as open-enrollment institutions with few, if any, admission requirements. As a result, the expanded role of community colleges into the bachelor's degree arena is not without controversy. Concerns center on the historically distinct missions of the two postsecondary sectors, competition with four-year institutions, duplication of programs and quality of the bachelor's degrees conferred by community colleges, among others. This Education Commission of the States' Policy Analysis examines state policies that allow community colleges to offer four-year degrees, summarizes arguments for and against these policies, and offers key policy considerations related to community college bachelor's degree programs.

2012 PhD Dissertation

2012 PhD Dissertation

2011 Peer Review Article
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2009 Peer Review Article
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2009 Peer Review Article
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2009 Peer Review Journal
Volume 33, Issue 2 of Community College Journal of Research and Practice
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2015 Article.

2014 Dissertation.

May 2014 News Article.

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2012 Book Chapter
Mindful that applied baccalaureate degrees often have as their target audience adults who consider themselves workers first and students second, this chapter defines the AB degree, offers insights into why they are important, and presents results of a state-by-state inventory highlighting applied baccalaureate degree programs in Oklahoma and Washington.

2012 Book Chapter.
This chapter identifies some of the challenges facing the applied and workforce baccalaureate. The authors seek not to argue against the baccalaureate but rather to identify concerns that need to be addressed in order to design and implement the degree effectively.

2012 Book Chapter
This chapter presents models and terminology representative of the contemporary utilization of the terms community college baccalaureate, applied baccalaureate, and workforce baccalaureate to provide a foundation for the evolving language about pathways leading to baccalaureate degrees.

2012 Peer Reviewed Article
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As a group, [Alabama] state directors had an optimistic view toward the increased attention to student success, the development of new data systems to track student success, and the enrollment capacity of community colleges. On the other hand, state directors were less optimistic toward state funding policies and the growth of four-year degree programs at community colleges. They recognized that funding for facilities was a priority, and federal support was needed. The findings indicate that the availability of local tax support influenced state directors' attitude toward state funding policies. Implications for practitioners and researchers are discussed.

2005 Chronicle of Higher Education Opinion Article

January 2017 News Article
Community colleges in many states have been granted authority in recent years to offer bachelor's degrees. Forty-nine such associate-dominant institutions granted 4,394 bachelor's degrees in 2014-15.

2013 Peer Review Article
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2011 Report.

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2010 Brief.

January 2017 Report.

August 2015 Report
Applied baccalaureate degree programs are approved through the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges (SBCTC) to achieve the following policy goals: (1) Increase educational pathways for professional-technical associate graduates who have been limited in their ability to apply credits toward a bachelor degree. (2) Meet state goals for increasing the total number of baccalaureate degrees awarded by public two-year and four-year institutions to 42,400 per year. To do this, the CTC system will need to increase the number of students who transfer to baccalaureate programs by 25 percent and increase the number of applied baccalaureate graduates to 1,400 by the year 2030; and (3) Expand the workforce mission of CTCs further to better serve the needs of local and state employers. This study is an evaluation of the CTC system's progress towards meeting the above three policy goals.

2012 Book Chapter.
This chapter shares how the state of Washington embraces the use of applied baccalaureate degrees at community colleges as a way to help meet employer demands and statewide degree production goals.

2011 Article.

July 2016 Report.
Includes Historical Overview of California's Legislative Attempts to Offer Baccalaureates at the Community College; and A Snapshot of States with Community College Baccalaureates

November 2014 Journal Article.
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2013 PhD Dissertation

2013 PhD. Dissertation

2013 PhD Dissertation
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2012 Book Chapter
This chapter highlights the history of workforce baccalaureate degrees in Florida, documents the growth of these programs across the state, and provides a framework for the designation of various degree types and academic requirements. Florida's new College System is described as one of the largest and most innovative systems of higher education for increasing access to four-year workforce baccalaureates.

2012 Newspaper Article

2010 EdD Dissertation

2014 Report.

October 2013 Article.
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2012 Book Chapter.
This chapter describes the impact of two workforce baccalaureates of applied technology degrees of South Texas College on higher education access for predominately Hispanic students. The addition of the workforce baccalaureates serves as an example of how such degrees increase participation rates for minority students.

August 2017 News Article.

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October 2015 News Article.

2013 PhD Dissertation
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