Research for Community Colleges Bridges to Opportunity

The Ford Foundation established this initiative to promote state policies that strengthen the capability of community colleges to work with other partners to improve education and economic opportunities for low-income adults. Douglas Gould and Company was charged with creating strategic communications around this by interviewing state teams, researching materials and media coverage and assessing the current tools in use by community colleges.

Recent Downloads

2007 Communications Case Study: Washington State: Effective Communications Advocacy: Delivering Opportunity through Community Colleges. A Case Study of the Washington State Community and Technical College System

Six Approaches to Serving the Low-Income Student (ppt)
Presentation given at AACC by Kay McClenney, Byron McClenney, Earl Hale and Katherine Boswell Sunday, April 15 at the Tampa Convention Center, Tampa, Florida.

Career Pathways: The Convergence of Transformations (ppt)
Keith Bird's Keynote Address at the League for Innovation in the Community College Convention March 4, 2007

Transforming Lives and Transforming Economies: Career Pathways at Community Colleges (ppt)
September 12, 2006 by Dr. Keith W. Bird

Accelerated Developmental Education Project Research Report

Ruth Brancard, Lumina Facilitator, Community College of Denver,
Elaine DeLott Baker, Principal Investigator, Colorado Lumina
Initiative for Performance,
and Laura Jensen, Ph.D., Institutional Research, Front Range Community College

English as a Second Language Learning Communities

Ruth Brancard, Lumina Facilitator, Community College of Denver,
Elaine DeLott Baker, Principal Investigator, Colorado Lumina
Initiative for Performance,
and Laura Jensen, Ph.D., Institutional Research, Front Range Community College

Strengthening Transitions
By: Katherine L. Hughes

Resilient & Reaching for More
by Avis Jones-DeWeever and Barbara Gault from the Institute for Women's Policy Research

Pathways to Student Success
Keynote Address, CCTI Summit, March 2006
by Kay McClenney