Company Profile
CCRC - Teachers College, Columbia University
Company Overview
The Community College Research Center (CCRC) at Teachers College, Columbia University, studies community colleges because they provide critical access to postsecondary education and are uniquely positioned to promote equity and social mobility in the United States. Our mission is to conduct research that helps these institutions strengthen opportunities and improve outcomes for their students, particularly those from underserved populations.
For more information see: https://ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/
Company History
In 1996, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation invited Thomas Bailey, director of the Institute on Education and the Economy at Teachers College, Columbia University, to submit a proposal to form a community college research center. At the time, little was known about two-year public colleges despite the fact that they enrolled nearly half of the nation’s undergraduates. In the years since, CCRC’s research on community colleges has served to generate and inform a renewed interest in these essential higher education institutions.
View highlights from our founding to the present day https://ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/ccrc-history.html
View our 2018–2020 biennial report https://ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/easyblog/ccrc-2018-2020-biennial-report.html
In 2018, Thomas W. Brock became the second director of CCRC, leading the center as it continues to make vital contributions to higher education research, policy, and practice.
Benefits
Full-time appointed professional and instructional employees
are eligible to receive tuition exemption up to a maximum of 12
credits per fiscal year at Teachers College or nine credits per year
if enrolled in a degree program at Columbia University.
For more information about benefits at Teachers College see https://www.tc.columbia.edu/human-resources/careers/