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Latisha Turner – ProQuest LLC, 2024
My Dissertation in Practice concentrated on sexual assault in community colleges with a focus on a mid-western community college. Sexual assault is a pervasive issue that has plagued higher education for years. The purpose of this quantitative descriptive exploratory research study was to explore students' knowledge and awareness of the policies…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Student Attitudes, Knowledge Level, Sexual Abuse
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Andrea B. Burridge; Lyle McKinney; Gerald V. Bourdeau; Mimi M. Lee; Yolanda M. Barnes – Journal of Higher Education, 2024
Establishing early academic momentum via credit accumulation is strongly associated with community college student success. Using data from one of the nation's largest and most racially diverse community college systems, our quasi-experimental study examined how different first-semester credit loads influenced persistence. For part-time students…
Descriptors: Part Time Students, Community College Students, College Credits, Student Diversity
Karen Josiah – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The Suburban Boulevard Community College (SBCC), a pseudonym, has been experiencing a low persistence rate among first-year full-time students. Further, a gap in practice exists where college administrators at the SBCC were not assessing first-year students' level of college readiness as a likely predictor of low persistence. The study was…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Community College Students, Academic Persistence, Low Achievement
Benjamin Frank Umbarger – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to investigate community college student perceptions of academic advising for 12 first-time first-generation (FTFG) General Studies students attending a rural southeastern community college. The phenomenological research approach was utilized to better understand participant experiences by…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Student Attitudes, First Generation College Students, Academic Advising
Wyoming Community College Commission, 2024
This report provides a look at the Fall 2023 term enrollment in categories such as student load, location and demographics of the community college student population. The content and format of this report have been developed through a collaborative effort between the Wyoming Community College Commission (WCCC), the Executive Council, and the Data…
Descriptors: Enrollment Trends, Community College Students, Community Colleges, Geographic Location
Tennessee Higher Education Commission, 2024
This year's "Tennessee Higher Education Fact Book" consists of four sections and an appendix of additional resources and terminology. The four main sections of the report provide data on Student Participation, Student Success, Academic and Fiscal Trends, and Outcomes-Based Funding. New this year, the report includes additional detail on…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Community Colleges, Universities, Enrollment Trends