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Zyrashae Smith-Onyewu; Marc L. Stein; Juan B. Cortes; Paula Kim-Christian; Nathaniel Dewey – Research in Higher Education, 2025
Community colleges were established as affordable postsecondary education opportunities for all residents within their local areas. Typical measures of access to postsecondary institutions use binary indicators based on the presence of institutions within geographic areas or straight-line distance between student residences and college locations…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Transportation, Public Sector, Urban Schools
Ofem, Brandon; Phillips, Joan M.; Lauer, Dan; Palmer, John C. – Metropolitan Universities, 2023
Co-location tools of urban economic development, such as accelerators and incubators, can facilitate entrepreneurship. Of these tools, accelerators have proliferated in number and variety over the past couple of decades. However, growing evidence suggests that these programs are not equally effective, varying in form and function with disparate…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Research Universities, Urban Schools, College Role
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Raquel M. Rall – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2023
The goal of this article is to enhance understanding and appreciation of the current and potential role of trustees in urban community colleges. In working to make sure students are successful, trustees face numerous challenges in implementing high-impact policies and practices that center student success. This article establishes a node…
Descriptors: Trustees, Role, Urban Schools, Community Colleges
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Yiting Chu; Weijia Wang – Urban Education, 2024
Urban teacher residency (UTR) has been promoted as a promising model to prepare teachers for urban schools. In this review, we analyzed 56 peer-reviewed, empirical journal articles on UTRs published between 2010 and 2020, following the PRISMA guidelines. While this literature suggested UTRs' potentials to recruiting and retaining diverse urban…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Urban Schools, Teacher Education, Experiential Learning
Robin R. Donovan – ProQuest LLC, 2024
A practice that dates back centuries, apprenticeship is a workforce development model that has gained recent attention in the American higher education system. The researcher conducted a review of existing literature that included apprenticeships in higher education and other models of community college workforce development. Existing literature…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Urban Schools, Apprenticeships, Labor Force Development
Menchhofer, Thomas O. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Mentoring has long been a strategy leveraged to support college students' development and academic success. The majority of studies on mentoring have focused on formal mentoring programs that involve a structure and the support of a program administrator. Studies have focused on mentorship outcomes such as increased academic achievement,…
Descriptors: Mentors, Teacher Student Relationship, College Faculty, Undergraduate Students
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Lorrei DiCamillo – New Educator, 2025
This qualitative study adds to the growing body of research on teacher residency programs through exploration of a small university's graduate teacher residency program for urban special education teachers. The author investigated the program over a four-year period to determine if it was meeting its espoused goals and to understand how the…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Sustainable Development, Special Education Teachers, Graduate Students
Holly J. Sawyers – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this quantitative study was to investigate the meaningful impacts of FYS courses on student success, academic performance, and retention rates in a large urban community college. Using quantitative research methods, the researcher compared Fall 2022 and Spring 2023 institutional data of enrollment and retention to evaluate student…
Descriptors: First Year Seminars, Program Effectiveness, Urban Schools, Academic Achievement
Shallegra Moye – Metropolitan Universities, 2024
Scholars deem university partnerships with public schools as an innovative opportunity to marry research and practice. In part because they can support developing and implementing evidence-based interventions that improve school culture, academics, and community participation. However, what is less discussed are the barriers and challenges of…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, College School Cooperation, Public Schools, Barriers
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John Gieng; Kiley D. Field; Giselle A. P. Pignotti – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: This cross-sectional study investigated associations among the Healthy Eating Index (HEI)-2015, Dietary Inflammatory Index (DII), and body composition in female collegiate athletes. Participants: Female NCAA Division I student-athletes (n=41, 18-21years old) were included from various sports and did not report any diagnosed chronic…
Descriptors: Nutrition, Human Body, Females, College Athletics
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Janae Alexander-Bady; Maiya Turner – Journal of Urban Learning, Teaching, and Research, 2023
Approximately one in five college students suffers from food insecurity, however, racially/ethnically minoritized students attending urban universities are more likely to experience food insecurity. Although these concerns are well documented, there has been a gap in the theory-driven tools used by higher education professionals to alleviate food…
Descriptors: College Students, Minority Group Students, Urban Schools, Hunger
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Demetri L. Morgan; Katherine S. Cho; Charles H. F. Davis III; Johnnie Campbell – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2023
In this article, the authors focus on the intersection of the study of activism and the urban community college. Leveraging the Actors, Contexts, Tactics, and Strategies (ACTS) Framework, the authors (re)examine activism scholarship that illuminates similarities and differences between 2- and 4-year institutions. Ultimately, the article concludes…
Descriptors: Activism, Social Action, Community Colleges, Colleges
Monique Saastamoinen – ProQuest LLC, 2024
High-impact tutoring also known as high-dosage tutoring (HDT), is distinct from general tutoring. As a model, it consists of practice guidelines around training, frequency, and length of tutoring sessions. This approach is integrated with the school curriculum and ideally conducted during the school day. There is a resurging interest in tutoring,…
Descriptors: Tutoring, Incidence, Partnerships in Education, Affordances
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Marie-Claude Couture; Kelly L. L'Engle; Pallavi Aytha Swathi; Annette K. Regan – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: Colleges are potential hotspots for transmission of SARS-CoV-2 due to lower immunization rates and possible close contacts among young adults. Some universities have implemented policies mandating COVID-19 vaccination; however, their effects remain uncertain. We estimated COVID-19 vaccination rates with and without university-mandated…
Descriptors: College Students, COVID-19, Pandemics, Immunization Programs
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Everrett A. Smith; Michael T. Miller – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2023
Urban community colleges have been studied primarily from a case study perspective, often highlighted by doctoral students conducting research at their institutions. Little of this scholarship, however, has been translated into the base of literature, as less than 5% of the citations in the largest search engines are focused on urban community…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Community Colleges, Definitions, Institutional Mission
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