How Colorado Community Colleges Used Funding for Short-Term Credentials
Descriptive Analysis of Senate Bill 22-192
ResearchPublished Jun 26, 2024
This report describes how six Colorado community colleges used $1.4 million of pandemic relief funding to support individuals pursuing short-term credentials. The authors examined state and college decisions about program eligibility, student eligibility, grant amounts, funding uses, and application requirements as well as outcomes for those receiving funding. Findings from the report can inform future short-term credential funding efforts.
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- Copyright: Colorado Community College System
- Publisher: RAND Corporation
- Availability: Web-Only
- Year: 2024
- Pages: 43
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.7249/RRA3354-1
- Document Number: RR-A3354-1
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Kushner, Jonah and Lindsay Daugherty, How Colorado Community Colleges Used Funding for Short-Term Credentials: Descriptive Analysis of Senate Bill 22-192, RAND Corporation, RR-A3354-1, 2024. As of May 5, 2026: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA3354-1.html
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Kushner, Jonah and Lindsay Daugherty, How Colorado Community Colleges Used Funding for Short-Term Credentials: Descriptive Analysis of Senate Bill 22-192. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2024. https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA3354-1.html.
The research described in this report was sponsored by the Colorado Community College System and conducted by RAND Education and Labor.
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