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This series of briefs revisits findings from a group of community colleges’ efforts to redesign career education (CE) programs to better prepare students for shifting regional workforce needs. Given the devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on regional economies today, what opportunities might be leveraged from the community colleges’ earlier efforts to facilitate workforce development? To address this question, this series highlights the perspectives of CCC students, faculty, staff, and administrators, based on several evaluation and research projects by the Education Insights Center (EdInsights) focusing on CE programs in the CCC from 2012 to 2017. The series includes three briefs that cover:  \n• student perspectives about career education programs,  \n• college personnel perspectives about program development, and  \n• opportunities to facilitate career education and workforce development.  \nWe begin our series on learnings from CE opportunities in the CCC system by highlighting what students described as most helpful in contributing to their success. These CE programs were aimed at helping students find meaningful jobs and careers with family-supporting wages, aligning curriculum with industry needs, encouraging timely completion, and providing students with work-based learning opportunities. Colleges implemented a wide range of approaches to accomplish these goals, and the ones featured here were highlighted by students as important to their success. We found that students especially valued having a consistent schedule, being part of a student cohort, having a program-specific counselor, building foundational skills, and obtaining relevant work experience while enrolled in college. Learning from students’ experiences in these programs can help colleges redesign their CE programs to better meet students’ needs and support their regional economies. Students’ perspectives are also relevant in the context of current reform efforts in the CCC such as Guided Pathways (GP), aimed at providing clear pathways and structured support for students.  \nEdInsights was an external evaluator for two CCC consortia that received grants from the Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training program, funded by the U.S. Department of Labor.1 The findings in this series are based on these evaluations, as well as research conducted by EdInsights on the CE mission of the CCC, including focus groups and surveys with over 1,000 CCC students, faculty, staff, and administrators. The views expressed in this brief are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the funders of the evaluation and research projects.  \n1  \nKey Takeaways  \nStudents Prefer Consistent Course Schedules  \nStudents said that they appreciated having a consistent class schedule for their program across its duration, since that allowed them to plan for their other obligations, including work and family care. For example, some programs blocked off specific days for instruction, such as having students in class on one or more weekdays [from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m](from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m). , intending to mimic a typical workday. Other programs organized courses into several discrete blocks offered in a particular sequence (for example, offering a theory course in the first two-week block, followed by a specific content course in the next block) . 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