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Jonathan T. Pryor; Brett Ranon Nachman – Innovative Higher Education, 2025
As community colleges continue to face challenges in serving an ever-changing student population and a wave of presidential retirements, the next generation of senior community college leaders is surfacing. To prepare these top-level administrators, doctoral-level community college leadership (CCL) programs often serve as a viable mechanism for…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Doctoral Programs, Curriculum, Needs Assessment
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Brett Ranon Nachman; Jonathan T. Pryor; Michael T. Miller – Community College Review, 2024
Objective/Research Question: For decades doctoral community college leadership programs have prepared students for the challenges and rewards in steering community college campuses, yet minimal scholarship has explored these programs' efficacy in serving their students. This study explores community college leaders' motivations in starting,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Administrators, Doctoral Programs, Doctoral Degrees
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Brett Ranon Nachman; Laura G. Maldonado; Catherine Hartman; Sarah A. Deal – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
Community colleges have long responded to local workforce needs through assembling programming and alliances aimed at reducing workforce gaps while concurrently training the next generation of industry professionals. The emergence of the North Carolina Community College System's NC Career Coach Program, stemming from North Carolina General Statute…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Counselors, Coaching (Performance), Community Colleges
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Brett Ranon Nachman – Community College Review, 2024
Objective/Research Question: The purpose of this grounded theory study is to explore how community college CTE faculty members aim to support disabled students in their career pursuits. Methods: This constructivist grounded theory study entailed interviewing 20 faculty members across two southeastern United States community colleges. Results:…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Faculty, Students with Disabilities, Teacher Student Relationship
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Brett Ranon Nachman; Christopher Wernimont – Career and Technical Education Research, 2024
Increased attention toward filling skills gaps have prompted community colleges to prepare a new wave of employees. Community colleges have long turned to former industry professionals, now serving as career and technical education (CTE) faculty, to train students for fruitful careers. This narrative inquiry study featured interviews with 20…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Faculty, Vocational Education Teachers, Vocational Education
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Brett Ranon Nachman; Kirsten R. Brown – Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2024
Representations of disabled students -- by both disabled and abled people -- are vital to disabled futures because they hold important implications for how abled people conceive of, and thereby support, disabled students. For years, scholarship on disability in postsecondary education has failed to interrogate the problematic narratives…
Descriptors: Journal Articles, Two Year Colleges, Disabilities, Attitudes toward Disabilities