The Breaking Through (BT) initiative promotes an expanded and enhanced role for community colleges in providing access to college for low-skilled adults. BT is uniquely important in its systematic integration of adult education, developmental/remedial education, professional-technical education (PTE), and career planning and preparation in…

Illinois has been offering dual credit/enrollment programs in some form since 1984 when the first such program began in Ottawa, at around the same time as the earliest programs were appearing on the national scene. It grew slowly for a number of years, but two changes spurred much faster growth. In 1996, the Illinois Community College Board…

Increasing numbers of high school students across the United States are enrolled in college courses while still attending high school, partly attributed to the explosion of dual credit or dual enrollment programs. It is the difference in location for the delivery of the course and the status of the faculty member that often elicits the question,…