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Melissa R. Colangelo; Melanie Graham; Bhavika Sicka – Inquiry: The Journal of the Virginia Community Colleges, 2024
If community colleges are to remain relevant, they must be future-oriented, and responsive to demographic and labor force shifts. The Get Skilled, Get a Job, Give Back initiative (G3) was implemented during the 2021-22 academic year to retain economically disadvantaged students, improve community college completion, and help students graduate into…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Community Colleges, Human Capital, Job Skills
Jingjing Liu – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The community college has one of its missions to provide access for students who intend to transfer to a 4-year university using a vertical transfer pathway. As potential advocates for students in the transfer process, faculty who work in community colleges need to recognize the importance of supporting transfer students and help to improve the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community College Students, College Transfer Students, Rural Areas
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Thomas Wood; Dana Adkins; Shima Mohebbi; Jeremy Campbell – Science Education and Civic Engagement, 2024
Twenty-five years ago, the aspirational vision of a newly formed national SENCER initiative led one of the authors (Wood) to initiate a long-term relationship between the Smithsonian Institution and George Mason University, involving a residential, immersive approach to education focused on biodiversity conservation. In the Smithsonian-Mason…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Partnerships in Education, School Community Relationship, School Community Programs
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Paul Williams – Inquiry: The Journal of the Virginia Community Colleges, 2024
After a sharp decline associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, 2023 marked two consecutive years of increase in the number of freshman and high-school dual enrollees, with under-18-year-olds driving a disproportionate share of this growth. The rising importance of this latter student group presents new opportunities for colleges as well as…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, Community Colleges, High School Students, Public Schools
Di Xu; Kelli A. Bird; Michael Cooper; Benjamin L. Castleman – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
Many public workforce training programs lead to industry-recognized, third-party awarded credentials, but little research has been conducted on the economic benefits of these credentials in the labor market. This paper provides quasi-experimental evidence on the labor market returns to industry-recognized credentials connected to community college…
Descriptors: Noncredit Courses, Credentials, Outcomes of Education, Labor Market
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Myran, Steve; Sylvester, Paul; Williams, Mitchell R.; Myran, Gunder – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2023
This article reports on four synthesis findings from the Credentials to Careers (C2C) initiative -- a consortium of seven community colleges working to create and implement innovative programs to train or retrain unemployed and displaced workers for STEM, advanced manufacturing and health-care-related careers. These are 1) collaborating with…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Partnerships in Education, Community Colleges, Unemployment
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Melissa Wood – Inquiry: The Journal of the Virginia Community Colleges, 2024
In the past several decades, the number of college students who experience mental health concerns has increased astronomically. During that time, acts of campus violence have increased as well. Unfortunately, many colleges have been unable to effectively meet the needs of students with mental disorders. This article explores the challenges…
Descriptors: Campuses, Mental Health, Student Needs, Barriers
Kathryn Swadgelo – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Many community colleges have an opening for the position of president and need to choose the best candidates to lead their organizations successfully in a dynamic and diverse higher education landscape. A review of existing literature revealed studies that have looked at programs preparing community college presidents, perspectives from community…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Presidents, Administrator Characteristics, Higher Education
Michael G. McBride – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Retention is a continuing concern for institutions of higher education, especially rural community colleges. Students are often not prepared for the rigor of college-level coursework, encounter academic and/or life obstacles, or do not possess the soft skills needed to succeed in college life. Research has shown that college-preparation courses…
Descriptors: Evaluation, Educational Planning, Student Development, Rural Education
Guth, Douglas J. – Community College Journal, 2023
Change is a constant both in life and on the typical community college campus. Two-year institutions are constantly adjusting to demographic transitions, workforce needs and the ever-shifting requirements of underserved enrollees. Flexibility around service may also call for internal change. Some community colleges have rebranded their names--a…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Community Colleges, Educational Environment, Institutional Characteristics
Nasim Khawaja – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA), like other community colleges, does not require Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) scores or similar entrance examinations for admission. However, new college applicants must demonstrate their levels of reading, writing, and mathematics skills to determine whether they need developmental courses to prepare…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, English (Second Language), Language Tests, Student Placement
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Bayraktar, Breana – Inquiry: The Journal of the Virginia Community Colleges, 2023
In the spring of 2021, the Community College System in which the author works was in the middle of a planned three-year pilot of math and English self-placement ("Direct Enrollment") procedures. Concerns about the significant English language learner (ELL) population at one institution led to the development of a corequisite support…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Community Colleges, Student Placement, Mathematics Education
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Finkel, Ed – Community College Journal, 2021
Community colleges hold a central piece in law enforcement training. Their curricula often based on mandates from state law enforcement boards. They had been gradually increasing their focus of these training programs on issues related to diversity, equity and racial profiling. This spotlight has led to changes (or potential changes) in areas like…
Descriptors: Police Education, Police Community Relationship, Educational Change, Community Colleges
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Graziella Pagliarulo McCarron; Cher Weixia Chen; Sarah Blanton; Gabriella Guerrieri; Rafaela Gonzalez Lucioni; Ellen Gurung; Anagha Sreevals; Jasmin Enciu – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2024
College student activists catalyze reform on campus and beyond--yet, we know little about how these students perceive mattering on campus. Given that mattering is linked to positive student outcomes, educator commitment to caring for student activists is critical. This work, grounded in semistructured interviews and a constructivist lens, explored…
Descriptors: College Students, Activism, Student Attitudes, College Faculty
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Sue Kimmel; Linda Bol; Diane Ryan; Monica Esqueda – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
A promising solution for reducing costs for students, especially textbook costs, is Open Educational Resources (OER). We explored community college faculty members' perceptions of using OER compared with publisher textbooks. In this comparative context, we investigated how OER impacted faculty, their instructional decisions, and their students as…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Faculty, Open Educational Resources, Textbooks
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