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Judith R. Davis – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Completion rates in higher education have historically been low. Colleges and universities have tried many different programs, offerings, degrees, schedules, and more to encourage their students to stay enrolled, complete their programs, and graduate. One such offering is the learning community, a grouping of incoming students into cohorts with…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Communities of Practice, Peer Groups, Peer Relationship
Roberto Guzman – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This research explored the concepts of Sense of Belonging and Campus Cultural Capital among first-generation transfer students who were accepted to attend the EOP Transfer Bridge Program in 2018 and 2019. The methodology employed for this study was a transformative and mixed methods design that utilized the lens of Student Validation and Critical…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Cultural Capital, Group Unity, Peer Relationship
Brooklyn Cole Herrera; Michael Lanford – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2024
Although open-access Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) continue to expand across the United States, they are often under-resourced and lack adequate institutional support services. This article presents findings from a qualitative case study of an asset-based, peer support program for Latinx students in an open-access HSI in the Southeast…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Hispanic American Students, Minority Serving Institutions, Peer Teaching
Kelly Elizabeth Love – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Community colleges serve a large percentage of historically under-represented populations including students of color, low-income, and first-generation students. Unfortunately, less than half of students who begin at a community college return the following Fall and only about one-fourth of students eventually graduate. Previous research indicates…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Sense of Community, Success, Academic Achievement
Ekanem B. Bassey – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Social media play an increasingly significant role in education; however, how international students in community colleges use social media is unknown. The student engagement theory and constructs on the impact of social technology underpinned this research. The purpose of the qualitative descriptive study was to explore, describe, and understand…
Descriptors: Social Media, Community College Students, Foreign Students, Learner Engagement
Mark Coleman – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The problem investigated in this study was the lack of persistence of 1st-year African American male students at a community college in a southeastern state. In the fall of 2018, only 55% of African American male students progressed through their 1st year compared to 70% of White male students. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore…
Descriptors: Community College Students, African American Students, College Freshmen, Males
James Dietrich Pryor – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this qualitative descriptive research was to explore how students described their experiences within a semester-long, new-student orientation program as contributing to their year-to-year re-enrollment at a community college in Arizona. Two research questions guided the stud. Exhaustive review of prior research indicated the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community College Students, School Orientation, First Year Seminars
Sarah L. Rodriguez; Maria L. Espino; Hannah Hightower – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
This research brief outlines a phenomenological study which sought to understand how community college students made sense of their engineering identity as well as explore how outsider perceptions of community college attendance and transfer influenced their identities. The study used the Community College Stigmatization Model (CCSM) and elements…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Self Concept, Community College Students, Social Bias
Amy Dunbar-Wallis; Jennifer Katcher; Wendy Moore; Lisa A. Corwin – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2024
The Bee the CURE is a novel course-based undergraduate research experience (CURE) that engages introductory biology students in DNA barcoding (DNA extraction, amplification, and bioinformatics) in partnership with the Tucson Bee Collaborative and the University of Arizona. The first iteration of this CURE taught at Pima Community College (PCC)…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Research, Biology, Genetics
Dawn A. Goodwin – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Research has revealed that online writing instructors use a variety of instructional methods in class to improve student learning experiences. However, current research has not addressed rural students' learning experiences with connectivism in an online composition course. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to explore what, if any,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Online Courses, Writing Instruction, Educational Experience
James Planey; Taehyun Kim; Emma Mercier; Robb Lindgren – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
Immersive technologies have the potential to play unique roles in the collaborative problem-solving process. To advance research in these contexts, new methods of documenting group collaboration with technology are necessary. The goal of this paper is to develop and utilize a coding scheme that enables investigation of the nature of collaborative…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Cooperative Learning, Problem Solving, Computer Simulation
Jessica Misha Reece – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The demand for colleges across the world to convert their courses to an online format has increased with the number of learners enrolled in at least one online course increasing each year (Seaman et al., 2018). Unfortunately, a study by Garris & Fleck (2020) found that many students complained that when their courses transitioned to an online…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes, College Faculty, Teacher Student Relationship
Peter A. Novick; Patrick B. Johnson; Kate Winter; Jennifer Valad – Journal of Biological Education, 2024
This study investigated the role of experiential learning and peer mentors in undergraduate biology at a community college. While the impact on all students was studied, special attention was paid to the effect interventions had on underrepresented minority students. Thirty-three sections of an introductory biology class were randomly assigned to…
Descriptors: STEM Education, School Holding Power, Grade Point Average, Mentors
Dana G. Holland Zahner; Raquel P. Harper – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2025
The transfer pathway from community college to university holds promise for advancing equity in STEM because it is followed by disproportionately high numbers of underrepresented students. Among the challenges these students face is cultivating belonging in multiple institutional settings. By combining belonging and validation theories, this…
Descriptors: Sense of Community, Disproportionate Representation, Undergraduate Study, STEM Education
Patiste Marcell Gilmore – ProQuest LLC, 2024
For many Blacks students, community colleges have long served as the top, low cost, postsecondary access point to a career that provides a livable wage, career growth opportunities, and the ability to support a family. Unfortunately, community college data has shown that Black male students are often the least successful demographic group…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Student Athletes, African American Students, Males
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