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"It's a Long Way from Here": Mapping Rural-Serving Community College Educators' Work across Landscapes of Practice
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Rosemary McBride; Reshmi Singh; Rachel Watson – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
Rural-serving community colleges (RSCCs) play vital roles in their communities yet often struggle to facilitate student transfer to further education, especially in STEM fields. This mixed methods study explored how rural STEM educators leverage relationships to support transfer. Social network analysis of focus groups with 36 educators at five…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Faculty, Rural Schools, Barriers
The Everyday Work of Rural-Serving Community College STEM Faculty: Lessons from an Institutional Ethnography across Wyoming
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Rachel Watson; Rosemary McBride; Reshmi Singh – Thresholds in Education, 2023
Rural-serving community college (RSCC) STEM faculty play an essential role for their students and communities. We employed an institutional ethnographic (IE) approach to elucidate the social and ruling relations organizing the everyday work of RSCC STEM faculty in Wyoming. Our data confirm that RSCC educators see students at the center of their…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Community Colleges, STEM Education, College Faculty