Research

Research

Research shows students enrolled in Dual Enrollment courses have the potential of obtaining a college degree more efficiently while also providing underrepresented students valuable exposure to a college education they may otherwise postpone or never have.  Dual Enrollment can serve as the gateway to college and it’s done in the comfort of high school where they have peers and adults who will encourage them to enroll, support them through moments of confusion, and provide an academic safety net if they are at risk of failing. 

Students from the lowest income families are still seven times less likely to earn a bachelor’s degree than their peers from the highest income families, and in the last decade the college graduation rate gap between white and underrepresented students closed by less than one percent. While there is no single solution to closing the opportunity gap, Dual Enrollment begins to address how we can break down barriers that have historically prevented our students from advancing their college, career, and life dreams. Together, with the Peralta Colleges, we’ve begun to address college access and completion issues, and created programming that is transforming the experiences our students are having in high school.