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Direct linkRavalin, Tamara; Tevis, Tenisha – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2017
Recent media attention concerning the escalation of crime on college campuses has created a sense of urgency to address how crime will impact the largest community college system in the United States, California Community Colleges. Crime can deter academic success and social engagement. This study utilizes social disorganization theory to examine…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Environment, Crime, Incidence
Katharine M. Broton – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Despite improvements in college access, college completion rates remain low among students from low-income and otherwise vulnerable families. Over the past three decades, college prices rose dramatically, the real income of most families stagnated, and the purchasing power of need-based financial aid declined. To make up for substantial unmet…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Poverty, Access to Education, Graduation Rate
Anderson, Melanie Oakes – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2014
The impact of cosmopolitan and local latent social roles on different professional occupations and organizational behavior has been studied since Gouldner's seminal study was published in 1957. This study was conducted to understand the relationship between the latent social role of the public community college chief academic officer and his…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Administration, Administrators, Administrator Role
Mertes, Scott J. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2015
Among current retention models, Tinto's Interactionalist Model has reached near paradigmatic status. When his model has been applied to two-year college settings, the social integration results have been inconsistent. This has led Maxwell (2000) and Deil-Amen (2011) to suggest that a different construct of social integration exists in community…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Social Integration, Social Theories
Anderson, Melanie Oakes – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Scholars have identified a potential community college leadership crisis as a large percentage of community college presidents prepare to retire (Shults, 2001; Weisman & Vaughan, 2007). The most common pathway to the community college presidency has been through the chief academic officer (CAO) position (Vaughan, 1990). Selection of future…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Job Satisfaction, Correlation, College Presidents
Adams-Mahaley, Charlene – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Literature has postulated that noncognitive or psychosocial variables are a strong predictor of African American and international students persisting in college. Using a modified version of the Noncognitive-Revised (NCQ-R) questionnaire developed by Tracey and Sedlacek (1984), this mixed methods descriptive study investigated the relationships…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, African American Students, Blacks, Immigrants
