In his research, he seeks to deconstruct students’ pathways into, through, and out of community colleges and into the workforce or on to four-year postsecondary institutions. His latest work is focused particularly on students’ course-taking and enrollment patterns in the community college and their subsequent labor market outcomes, such as employment and earnings, as well as the impact of students’ varied patterns of course-taking and enrollment on the assessment of community college performance. He recently was awarded a research grant from the Institute of Education Sciences to study older students in Ohio’s community colleges with colleagues at the Scripps Gerontology Center at Miami University. In a separate line of inquiry, he is investigating students’ navigation of the STEM transfer curriculum in community colleges, with the objective of strengthening the pipeline into STEM baccalaureate programs.