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Pamela Peters – Journal of Research Initiatives, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic has strained higher education institutions, especially small Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). As campuses closed and reopened, Black communities' digital divide grew, adding to the need to stay connected. This study uses social capital to examine how institutions use language, tone, content, and…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Social Capital, Social Media, Small Colleges
Vonda M. Easterling – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine the first-year experiences of 10 first-generation college students who participated in university-established learning communities at a small private Historically Black College. Further, this study was conducted to discover what participants felt was the role of the learning community…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, First Generation College Students, Success, Small Colleges
Complete College America, 2022
In December 2020, Complete College America (CCA), in partnership with the Jessie Ball duPont Fund, launched a rigorous 12- to 18-month project designed to increase student success and completion rates at small liberal arts institutions. The focus was on building and enhancing support systems for first-generation and Pell-eligible students, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Program Descriptions, Small Colleges, Liberal Arts
Romano, Victor Owen – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Wellness is something that needs to be taught, encouraged, and valued within a community for it to be obtainable. Preventable health disparities attributed to lack of physical activity continue to be a burden in predominantly African-American communities. Preventative wellness programming has been shown to be successful for students, as well as…
Descriptors: Wellness, Small Colleges, Black Colleges, College Students
Fluellen, Jerry E., Jr. – Online Submission, 2012
A larger scale context for power teaching includes ideas from Duane Elgin, Lester Brown, Al Gore and many others. Collectively, they say the convergence of systems level global problems without national borders place before humankind a choice the species has never encountered in 195,000 years of life on "Spaceship Earth." In Elgin's…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Small Colleges, Global Approach, Black Colleges
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Baldwin, D.; Brady, A.; Danyluk, A.; Adams, J.; Lawrence, A. – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2010
Many undergraduate liberal arts institutions offer computer science majors. This article illustrates how quality computer science programs can be realized in a wide variety of liberal arts settings by describing and contrasting the actual programs at five liberal arts colleges: Williams College, Kalamazoo College, the State University of New York…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Computer Science, Liberal Arts, Program Descriptions