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Holly Nolan Chavez – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study examined opportunities for enhancing transfer outcomes for community college students through summer research opportunities at a university. It emphasizes the significance of academic capital, derived from Bourdieu's cultural capital theory, in facilitating successful transfers. By offering ten-week paid summer research opportunities at…
Descriptors: Student Research, Internship Programs, STEM Education, Community College Students
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Hao A. Nguyen; Emily Miura-Stempel; Christine M. Morrison; Grant J. Dixon; Micaela K. Homer; Florence Y. Dou; Alyssia Snow; Matthew R. Golder; Brandi M. Cossairt – Journal of Chemical Education, 2024
Chemistry students at community colleges often experience a lack of hands-on research opportunities, which can be a significant disadvantage when they transition to four-year universities. To address this, the Summer Chemistry Research Opportunities for Community College Students (SCROCCS) was established in 2022 by graduate students at the…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Research Projects, Community College Students, Universities
Cynthia Cordova – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this study was to understand how Puente Project community college faculty experience and conceptualize carino in the Puente Summer Institute training context and how carino is enacted with students. In this research, I used a grounded theory approach informed by culturally relevant and carino pedagogies as conceptual frameworks to…
Descriptors: Caring, Community Colleges, College Faculty, Summer Programs
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Sarah L. Hoiland; JungHang Lee; Norberto Michel Hernández Valdés-Portela – Teachers College Record, 2024
Background/Context: The Holistic Oasis for Parents' Education (HOPE) Program is an on-campus summer program designed to serve the whole student with a three-dimensional support model. Low-income, Black, and Hispanic parents experienced some of the most egregious effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, which reflects the demographics of one in three…
Descriptors: Sense of Community, Parents, Community College Students, Minority Group Students