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Ty C. McNamee; Austin D. Van Horn – Journal of Education Human Resources, 2024
Hundreds of community colleges exist in rural contexts across the United States, yet we know little about the work and career development of the thousands of faculty employed at such institutions. Through a review of current literature, this article demonstrates how faculty at rural community colleges encounter specific factors in their…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Community Colleges, College Faculty, Faculty Development
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William Bowlin; Carol Cutler White – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
College completion is an important focus for policy and practice and is impacted by student academic and non-academic factors. Participation in non-classroom activities is well documented to extend positive intellectual, social, and psychosocial outcomes associated with college completion, yet this association is understudied for community college…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Rural Schools, College Freshmen, Academic Persistence
Jodie Lynn Ferise – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The United States has become increasingly diverse, but the American professoriate has not kept pace. Nationwide, nearly three quarters of all college faculty are White. That figure is even higher in rural institutions, where minority faculty comprise only 15% of the total. This is problematic because research has shown that students of all races…
Descriptors: Teacher Recruitment, Minority Group Teachers, Rural Schools, College Faculty
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Nancy E. Thacker; Melinda M. Gibbons; Marjorie Perkins; Emily Keller; Pamela Rosecrance; Marlon Johnson; Erin E. Hardin; Leia Cain – Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2024
College adjustment is particularly challenging for students from rural Appalachia, causing rural students to be more likely than their suburban and urban peers to withdraw from college. However, little is known about rural Appalachian college students' adjustment. We explored 18 rural Appalachian students' college adjustment experiences and…
Descriptors: Student Adjustment, College Freshmen, Rural Schools, Cultural Influences
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Jon McNaughtan – Journal of Education Human Resources, 2024
Higher education is going through a significant period of change following the COVID-19 pandemic. The increased technological capacity and desire for online modalities are both a great opportunity and a potentially challenging burden. Although they serve the most marginalized students, community colleges are often vastly under-resourced, leaving…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Community Colleges, Electronic Learning, Online Courses
Kelly Efird Simmons – ProQuest LLC, 2024
College readiness has been a primary focus of U.S. secondary education for over 40 years. Despite the continued focus on college readiness at the national, state, and local levels, researchers have claimed that educational reforms have resulted in little gains in students' college readiness, warranting continued emphasis and research. To advance…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, Dual Enrollment, College Readiness, Teacher Attitudes
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Sherbert, Vicki S. – Educational Considerations, 2022
The on-going social and political climate, with polarizing stances on everything from issues of social justice to mandates for mask-wearing and vaccination, brings non-normative stressors into the lived experiences of students, families, and educators everywhere. These stressors are often magnified in rural communities and schools. Yet, in spite…
Descriptors: Field Experience Programs, Rural Schools, Preservice Teachers, Curriculum Development
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Mark A. Perkins; Jonathan W. Carrier; Joseph M. Schaffer – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
Community colleges often employ measures to determine student course placement. Though much research has examined the predictive validity of placement measures such as ACT or high-school GPA, little research examines the effects of students' traditional and non-traditional status. Using data from a rural state community college, we examined the…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Rural Schools, Nontraditional Students, Student Placement
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Subi Gandhi; Katrina Hinson; Viraj Gandhi; Sushma Sharma – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objectives: This study examined the prevalence, patterns, and knowledge of Energy Drink (ED) consumption among undergraduate students. Participants: Participants included students (n = 373) attending a medium-sized rural university in Texas. Methods: Students were surveyed anonymously using convenience sampling and a cross-sectional design with 15…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Stimulants, Drug Use, Eating Habits
McGhee, Tanya J. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Community colleges are important settings for the development of social capital as well as institutions of higher learning. The democratic mission, geographic dispersion, and close relationship with multiple stakeholders throughout their service regions allow community colleges to be well-suited to act as liaisons and social architects…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Community Colleges, Social Capital, Rural Areas
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Rachel E. Worsham; Melissa Whatley; Andrew Crain; Sarah Deal; Benjamin T. Skinner – Community College Review, 2024
Objective: Vertical community college transfer has become an essential pathway for many students who hope to attain bachelor's degrees. Prior literature indicates that institutional supports, like transfer articulation agreements and transfer advising, have a positive influence on transfer success. Yet, spatial inequality theory indicates that…
Descriptors: Bachelors Degrees, College Transfer Students, Barriers, Internet
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Ping Zhao; Wei Liao – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2024
Over the past 50 years, China's initial teacher education (ITE) system has undergone significant changes and improvements. To review and reflect on these experiences, we construct a multi-level, context-specific conceptualisation of ITE professionalisation. Guided by this framework, we segment the history of ITE professionalisation into three…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professionalism, Preservice Teacher Education, Educational History
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Collins, Royce Ann; Zacharakis, Jeff – Adult Learning, 2023
Through their history, adult education graduate programs have flourished and dwindled and sustainability always seems to be in jeopardy. This case study examines one program's growth, decline, and continuous rebirth in the competitive higher education market and academic stratification. Throughout its 55 years of existence, faculty have risen from…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Graduate Study, Sustainability, Barriers
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Robert Mitchell; Nicholas Fuselier; Patty Witkowsky – Journal of Education Human Resources, 2024
A significant amount of recent research and media coverage has focused on the challenges related to K-12 teacher shortages, particularly in rural regions of the United States. Far less research, however, has been conducted on the challenges faced by rural community colleges related to recruiting and retaining both academic and professional…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Rural Schools, Leadership, Leaders
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Emilia Titan; Adrian Otoiu; Dorel Paraschiv; Daniela Manea – Oxford Review of Education, 2024
The perceived disadvantage faced by high school students from rural areas in pursuing higher education is often associated with the fact that these areas are by default affected by socio-economic disadvantages. The analysis of the results from the high school baccalaureate examination for Romania, which is mandatory for admission to higher…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Access to Education, Disadvantaged, High School Students
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