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An Inventory of Community College Business and Administrative Organizational Operations
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Samuels, Mandel; Miller, Michael – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2022
Community colleges reflect the unique needs of their communities, and as societal expectations of education and training change, so does the functioning of the college. A little studied yet critically important element of college leadership is the senior business officer, the individual responsible for the variety of services that allow…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Administration, Administrative Organization, Administrators
Motives for Nonmedical Use of Prescription Stimulants in Community College Students
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Hannah G. Mitchell; Shelby A. King; Meredith K. Ginley; Kelly N. Foster; Nicholas E. Hagemeier; Rajkumar J. Sevak – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: The present study identified common motives for nonmedical use of prescription stimulants (NMUS) among community college (CC) students and examined behavioral and demographic correlates of certain motives. Participants: The survey was completed by 3,113 CC students (72.4% female; 81.7% White). Methods: Survey results from 10 CCs were…
Descriptors: Drug Abuse, Stimulants, Student Motivation, Gender Differences
Factors Associated with Upward Transfer at a Rural Community College
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Goodson, Drew Michael – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Upward transfer is the process by which students begin their higher education at a Community College or other two-year institution and then transfer to a four-year institution to complete their bachelor degree. Community Colleges enroll 45% of all undergraduates in the United States, or approximately 7.7 million students (AACC, 2015). From their…
Descriptors: College Transfer Students, Universities, Community College Students, Institutional Mission
Time to Talk: Facilitating Climate Change Conversations in Rural Pennsylvania
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Mary Ann Steiner; Karen Knutson; Kevin Crowley – Connected Science Learning, 2024
Many people living in rural areas are aware of the impacts of climate change and often have climate beliefs that are aligned with the scientific consensus. However, climate change conversations in rural communities may be seen as divisive, political, and potential sources of conflict in the community. We describe a rural/urban collaboration…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Climate, Rural Areas, Rural Urban Differences
Do Colleges Perform the Same Following Developmental Education Reform? The Case of Florida's Senate Bill 1720
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Hu, Xinye; Hu, Shouping – Research in Higher Education, 2022
Developmental education (DE) reform took place among the 28 Florida College System (FCS) institutions in 2014. In this study, we examine how cohort-based passing rates in college-level English and math courses changed at different colleges for pre- and post-policy period and explore what institutional characteristics were related with various…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Developmental Studies Programs, Educational Change, State Legislation
Performance-Based Funding in Texas: Sensemaking Experiences of Administrators at Hispanic-Serving Community Colleges
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Kathleen E. Launius – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Despite the expansive literature on higher education performance-based funding (PBF) policies, there is an oversaturation of quantitative studies focused on measuring metric performance at the statewide level. These studies have largely found that PBF fails to meet its goal of improving graduation rates and has unintended consequences for…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Graduation Rate, Educational Improvement, Administrator Attitudes