CCBA Promising Practices

As institutions seek opportunities to better understand what elements contribute to successful CCB degrees, the CCBA created this collection of innovative and effective practices as a resource for practitioners at every stage of the CCB journey. From planning and designing new programs to evaluating and improving programs already in place, this portfolio of proven tools and strategies was submitted by colleges from around the nation.

Promising Practices are innovative strategies that promote adult and underrepresented learners’ success in community college baccalaureate (CCB) programs. These practices contribute to opportunities, successful education, employment, and other positive outcomes for students, graduates and communities.

The collection and publication of this database of CCBA Promising Practices was made possible with funding provided by the ECMC Foundation. We would also like to recognize the CCBA board, staff, and members who offered advice and submitted nominations. We appreciate the Promising Practices research team of Bragg and Associate led by Dr. Debra Bragg for their work in bringing the first cycle of this project to fruition. For more information on the individual college’s Promising Practices, the contact person’s email is listed.

Finalists are published in the searchable Promising Practices database and recognized and receive priority for a break-out session during the 2027 CCBA National Conference.

Last updated April 03, 2026

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Industry Mentoring and Internship Experiences at a Community College Baccalaureate Program in Software Development

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  • Employer Partnerships and Collaborations
    Experiential Learning
    Flexibility
  • CodeDay + Washington State SBCTC
  • https://www.codeday.org/; https://www.sbctc.edu/
  • Tyler Menezes
  • tylermenezes@codeday.org

  • CCB programs often lack the “brand recognition” of large R1 universities, which makes it hard for CCB students to find internships. Additionally, many CCB students aren’t able to participate in internships because they are a primary caretaker or work part-time jobs to pay for school. These students graduate without many critical workplace skills and with limited experience to put on their resume.

    This practice has CCB students studying computer science (and related fields) contribute to open source software projects under the joint supervision of CodeDay and partner company software engineers. These projects are collaborative initiatives in which an application’s source code is made freely available online, and the published invites contributions from software engineers at many companies. Most computer software today is either itself open source (such as Google’s Android OS) or based on open source.

    Students can participate in open source internships as part of a class capstone, as a short-term extracurricular activity (micro-internship) or an intensive summer experience (akin to a traditional internship).

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