In 2021, community college practitioners, scholars, researchers, and leaders accepted a challenge to document what worked, what did not work, and lessons learned during the era of the COVID-19 pandemic. This article summarizes the works of 39 authors who collectively wrote 14 peer reviewed papers in areas of leadership, curriculum, funding, social…

In this qualitative narrative study, the stories of 10 Latino men students were used to understand their transfer experiences from a community college to a university. The Hero's Journey conceptual framework was used in this narrative study to understand what motivates and influences Latino men to transfer from a community college to a university.…

Unlike many graduate education disciplines such as science and engineering, graduate education programs specializing in the study of community colleges have not focused their efforts on preparing future faculty. Rather, these programs focused on the scholarly and practical study of community college education and leadership, education, and…

As higher education continues to experience a shift in demographics commiserate with the United States population, colleges and universities are making more concerted efforts to recruit men of color as staff, administrators, and faculty to reflect their diversified student bodies. One way to retain men of color staff members is to provide…

In the 40th publication year of the "Community College Journal of Research and Practice" ("CCJRP"), the authors present a 39-year retrospective on research on the community college through the lens of the journal. It is not known exactly what the body of community college research wholly consists of. Without access to the…

In early 2020, the world was thrown into chaos with no organization, country, or individual escaping the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Just a year before in 2019, community colleges, universities and schools were thriving. 2020, however, was a year that none of us predicted, marked by the pandemic, as well as, other cataclysmic disrupters and…