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McNair, Tia Brown, Ed.; Bonneville, Lucie, Ed. – Association of American Colleges and Universities, 2021
In 2019, twenty community colleges joined Strengthening Guided Pathways and Career Success by Ensuring Students Are Learning, a two-year project led by the American Association of Colleges and Universities. The project draws on the guided pathways framework to support institutions as they (1) map academic pathways and degree programs to student…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, College Role, Academic Degrees
Dora Gicheva; Julie Edmunds; Beth Thrift; Marie Hull; Jeremy Bray – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2020
Our research team worked with Wake Technical Community College to evaluate an intervention to redesign the delivery of a set of introductory online courses. To obtain unbiased estimates of the treatment effects of the intervention, we conducted a randomized control trial in which students who enrolled in the study courses were assigned randomly to…
Descriptors: Randomized Controlled Trials, Educational Research, Electronic Learning, Introductory Courses
Jena L. Hawk – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2016
As part of my dissertation, I designed and conducted a study that examined the portrayal of community colleges in the media. Previous studies had consisted primarily of content analysis methodology, and as such, they failed to examine the influence these media portrayals had on students' intent to enroll in community colleges. In addition to…
Descriptors: Mass Media, Community College Students, Semi Structured Interviews, Mass Media Effects
Park, Rina Seung Eun; Scott-Clayton, Judith – Center for Analysis of Postsecondary Education and Employment, 2017
In this paper, we examine the effects of receiving a modest Pell Grant on financial aid packages, labor supply while in school, and academic outcomes for community college students. Using administrative data from one state, we compare community college students just above and below the expected family contribution (EFC) cutoff for receiving a Pell…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Grants, Eligibility, Student Financial Aid
Division on Autism and Developmental Disabilities, Council for Exceptional Children (NJ3), 2008
"Look, I'm in College!" is a half-hour documentary that follows four students through an extraordinary time in their lives. Terence, Benny, Rayquan, and Donald are New York City public school students from high-need communities. They all have autism and intellectual disabilities, and they are the charter class in a college-based…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Mental Retardation, Autism, Developmental Disabilities