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ABOUT THIS NC COMMUNITY COLLEGE DATABASE
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In March 2020, the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) released “District Responses to COVID-19,” (linked below) an online database tracking how some of the nation’s largest public school districts have shifted instruction, student support, and organizational operations in response to COVID-19 school closures. CRPE continues to update the database on a regular basis as district plans shift and evolve. Following CRPE's database release, EdNC and researchers from Chapel Hill-based Public Impact joined forces to create a North Carolina version of CRPE's database to provide a similar set of information for state leaders, district leaders, school leaders, and the public regarding K-12 systems. In June 2020, EdNC and Public Impact published a second iteration of the database.

In an effort to provide similar information to the same leaders, EdNC expanded their online database to encompass community colleges in North Carolina. In alignment with CRPE's national database and the K-12 North Carolina district database, the community college database published in May 2020 outlined North Carolina community colleges' responses to COVID-19 according to a series of standard indicators, that covered campus closures, course transitions, communication, and student support. EdNC continued to track the dynamic circumstances on community college campuses. After recently evaluating each community college website, EdNC created a second database to capture continued responses to COVID-19, specifically for the Fall 2020 term. The database categories include: instructional delivery formats, college and career promise, and health screenings / reporting.

Included within this database are four tabs:
-About – Explaining the intent and process for this database
-Definitions – Explanations of each indicator included within the database and how this indicator could be coded.
-NC Community College Response Dataset – The dataset, which contains links to each community colleges' response plan and our analyses of these plans.
-Additional Notes - A section with additional notes for certain coded items.
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PROCESS FOR POPULATING THE DATABASE
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To populate this database, we searched for community colleges' publicly posted plans via institutional websites and some social media pages. If information could not be obtained, EdNC reached out to the Public Information Officer of each community college.

This is a preliminary review of information and is not exhaustive. We strive to provide information that is accurate, complete, and current, but we realize plans at each community college are changing rapidly. If you have direct knowledge of a community college's COVID-19 response plan, or see information in our database that needs updating, please contact Emily Thomas: ethomas@ednc.org
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CONTRIBUTORS
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This NC dataset was compiled by Emily Thomas and Molly Osborne from EdNC
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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CRPE District Responses to COVID-19
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EdNC North Carolina District Database
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EdNC
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