by Matthew Crespi When we began the SHSF Transit Mapping Project over a year and a half ago, we set out to answer the question of which community and technical colleges in the United States have public transit within walking distance. The answer to that question is not a static…

By Abigail Seldin, Matthew Crespi, and Ellie Bruecker Today, we released our SHSF Public Transit Map for North Carolina! This is the first of 50 interactive state maps that show which community colleges have public transit stops within walking distance — and which ones are still waiting for the bus…

by Dr. Matthew Crespi Welcome back to Transit Tuesday! Today we’re going to be taking a deeper dive at a common question that usually gets a short answer: Why do we use straight-line distances between transit stops and schools? (This is how we calculated distances on the SHSF Transit Map…

by Dr Ellie Bruecker Back in 2010, 20-year old me decided to run for student government at University of Wisconsin-Madison, hoping to work on making college more affordable. I campaigned for a seat on the university’s Student Services Finance Committee, which has control over a portion of the segregated fees…

by Dr. Ellie Bruecker and Dr. Matthew Crespi In the process of building the CASL dataset, one of our more interesting observations was the variety of settings where community and technical colleges offer courses. More commonly than four-year colleges, public two-year colleges are embedded within their communities (hence the name!)…

by Dr. Matthew Crespi Phase II of the SHSF Transit Mapping Project continues to chug along. (A train metaphor! People who told me we make too many bus jokes, you’ve been heard!) We’ve spent a lot of time looking at community and technical colleges on various mapping platforms. The point…

by Dr. Ellie Bruecker Please note: The purpose of this post is not to critique particular states or schools, but to highlight how small oversights in web design impact students. And web design is actually very hard. The good news about this issue is that it can be easily —…

by Dr. Ellie Bruecker, Senior Research Associate, SHSF Recent projections suggest that the U.S. will fall short of the nursing demand by approximately 1.8 million nurses by the end of the decade, in part because nursing school enrollments are unable to keep pace with demand. Despite a 5.1% increase in…

by Dr. Ellie Bruecker, Senior Research Associate, SHSF When we launched our SHSF Public Transit Map last spring, community college stakeholders regularly asked about branch campuses. Today, students can earn a certificate or a degree without ever stepping foot on a community college’s main campus. And some programs or courses…