CCCSE’s Mission
By delivering “aha” moments about the student experience based on insights that matter, CCCSE assists institutions and policymakers in using information to promote improvements in student learning, persistence, and attainment.
Registration for DESSE 2026 is open!
Spring 2026 will be the first national administration of DESSE, the Dual Enrollment Survey of Student Engagement. This groundbreaking survey is designed to capture the voices and experiences of dual enrollment students across the country.
Report on Student Mental Health and Well-Being
Supporting Minds, Supporting Learners: Addressing Student Mental Health to Advance Academic Success explores mental health and well-being among community college students and highlights the challenges many students experience. The data presented in this report are based on a survey administered in spring 2023 to over 60,000 community college students from 149 institutions and a survey administered in fall 2023 to almost 14,000 students from 61 institutions.
Report on Guided Career Pathways
How Clear Is Their Path? Guided Career Pathways and Community College Students explores how prepared community college students are to meet their career goals. Over 90 percent of students responding to the 2023 Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE) indicated they had chosen a career path. But many of those respondents were missing vital information about what that path would entail. This report contains data from 83,189 students across 199 community colleges who responded to CCSSE in spring 2023.
- DESSE 2026 registration is now open!
- CCSSE 2026 registration is now open!
- NISOD joins CCCSE.
- CCCSE pens article on the AI divide in community colleges.
- CCCSE joins the Education for All coalition, a joint effort to promote student civic engagement.
- CCCSE partners with newly established National Disability Center for Student Success.
- CCCSE partners with Qualtrics to deliver online surveys.
Community Colleges Matter
Learn more about Why Community College Matter.