One College Program, Seventy Different Campuses: Dual Enrollment, Community Colleges, and the Unique Challenges Faced during the COVID-19 Pandemic

ABSTRACT

This manuscript discusses those challenges unique to community college dual-enrollment programs during the COVID-19 pandemic by highlighting the experiences of the senior leadership team of the College Credit Plus (CCP) program at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio. With 69 different high schools offering Sinclair courses, the CCP office at Sinclair was required to balance the concerns of their internal staff and departments while simultaneously meeting their secondary partners’ needs. This practitioner-focused manuscript provides stories, insights, and reflections on how the CCP office responded to the COVID-19 pandemic, highlighting interventions that worked well and others that did not. By sharing and reflecting on these experiences, we add to the growing literature on COVID-19 responses to build a more equitable community college sector in the future.

Notes

1. There are previsions within the CCP law that allow low-income students to withdraw from a class without a repayment penalty.