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Welcome to the
Center for the Study of Community Colleges

Relevant Research for Improving Leadership, Policy, and Practice

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About Us

The Center for the Study of Community Colleges is a non-profit 501(c)(3)

research and policy organization based

in Los Angeles, California.

The Center's mission is to improve community college effectiveness and student success by engaging in and supporting research related to community college leadership, practice, and policy.

What We Do

The Center for the Study of Community Colleges engages in and supports research for improving community college leadership, policy, and practice.

This work occurs in three primary strands. 

As a stand-alone nonprofit research organization, the Center is uniquely positioned to conduct and advise on national investigations of community college leadership, practice, policy, and student success. The Center frequently engages in research-to-practice partnerships with national community college organizations

to maximize the impact of its scholarship and institutional improvement initiatives. Recent and ongoing projects include: 

Partnering with ACCT to conduct the most comprehensive survey of community college trustees

in over 25 years.

Collaborating with AAUP to administer the first-ever community college shared governance survey.

 

Partnering with the League for Innovation in the Community College to improve connections to wraparound services and the workforce at four Arizona community and tribal colleges.

Collaborating with Center-Affiliated Scholars at Mississippi State University to develop a landscape analysis of community college civic programs and practices.

Since 1974, a core aspect of the Center's mission has been to increase awareness and utilization of community college scholarship. 

The Center supports, promotes, and disseminates exemplary research on

community colleges by:

Serving as the fiscal home of the Council for the Study of Community Colleges (CSCC), an AACC-affiliated scholarly association comprised of university researchers,  community college practitioners, and others  who further scholarship on the community college enterprise.

Collaborating with the Belk Center for Community College Leadership and Research at NC State University and ICPSR to develop and maintain the Community College Data Hub,

a collection of datasets and data-related publications associated with community colleges and their students, administrators, faculty,

staff, and communities.

Engaging established and emerging scholars and scholar-practitioners in research leading to institutional improvement through the Center-Affiliated Scholars Program.

Drawing on relationships with community college leaders, state agencies, philanthropic organizations, and community college member associations, the Center convenes and administers large-scale institutional improvement initiatives involving multiple community colleges, researchers, evaluators,

and other organizations.

 

Depending on the project, the Center may play a direct role, act in an advisory capacity, and/or provide administrative services to facilitate the receipt and distribution of grant dollars across multiple institutions.

 

The Center's low indirect cost  rate and nonprofit status ensure

that the vast majority of each

grant can support institutional improvement on college campuses as well as associated research

and/or evaluation. 

What We Do

News & Events

Keep up with the latest from the Center for the Study of Community Colleges

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CSCC's 66th Annual Conference

Call for Proposals Available Now!

The Council for the Study of Community College's 2025 conference will be held at the

Westin Book Cadillac Detroit

April 3 - 5, 2025. 

Click here for the 2025 Call for Proposals; more information available at www.cscc.pitt.edu.

NEWS & EVENTS

Contact Us

To contact the Center, please use the form below

or click here for mailing address, email, and phone number

9544 Cresta Drive Los Angeles, California 90035         (310) 951-3565        info@centerforcommunitycolleges.org

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