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Debt Aversion and College Completion

November 18, 2020

How does debt aversion affect college completion for Latino students? Aversion to borrowing is both a barrier to college completion and is integrally connected to several other barriers, mostly financial, disproportionately burdening Latino students. It’s complicated! But a new report … Read more

CCC Statement on Police Brutality and Systemic Racism

June 4, 2020

The Center for Community Capital (CCC) condemns the killing of George Floyd as well as Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and many other Black people before them by the hands of law enforcement officers. While the focus is often on the … Read more

Tuition-Free College

May 30, 2020

The Center for Community Capital on occasion publishes blog posts written by CCC Graduate Fellows. This post, written by William Curran-Groome (MCRP 2020) & Amie Sigmann (MSW 2020) looks at the emerging trends driving tuition-free colleges and the ways in … Read more

The True Cost of Higher Education

May 30, 2020

The Center for Community Capital on occasion publishes blog posts written by CCC Graduate Fellows. This post, written by Celeste Kathleen (MSW 2021) & Keiyitho Omonuwa (MPH 2020) analyzes the pattern of rising costs in higher education across the nation. The … Read more

CCC Wins NC TraCS Award

November 25, 2019

The UNC Center for Community Capital is pleased to receive an award from the NC TraCS Institute for the 121st cycle of the TraCS $2K pilot grants. Molly DeMarco (with the UNC Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention) and … Read more

No Place Like Home

November 15, 2019

“One of the most startling discoveries I’ve made in my research has been the direct connection between energy efficiency and financial health for low- and middle-income families. A 2013 study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Center … Read more

Remembering that I Belong

September 3, 2019

The Center for Community Capital on occasion publishes blog posts written by CCC Graduate Fellows. This post, written by Janel Burns (MSW 2020), is a reflection on how impostor syndrome can be a major barrier to academic and professional success … Read more