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Eric Slaughter – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Community college persistence, retention, and graduation rates are very low (Koldner, 2015). CCSSE (2007), states that an essential predictor of higher education success rates is enhanced student engagement opportunities. This paper explores higher education hyperconnectivity Quan-Haase & Wellman (2006) and navigational capital Yosso (2005)…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Social Networks, Community Colleges, Telecommunications
Jennifer Leigh Dunaway – ProQuest LLC, 2020
With the growth of social media over the last decade, students are looking at these platforms not only for personal purposes but also for academic purposes. Social networking sites (SNS) are online communities designed to connect individuals to wider networks of relationships. The purpose of this sequential explanatory mixed methods study was to…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community College Students, College Faculty, Student Attitudes
Parker, Kim; Lenhart, Amanda; Moore, Kathleen – Pew Internet & American Life Project, 2011
This report is based on findings from a pair of Pew Research Center surveys conducted in spring 2011. One is a telephone survey of a nationally representative sample of 2,142 adults ages 18 and older. The other is an online survey, done in association with the Chronicle of Higher Education, among the presidents of 1,055 two-year and four-year…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Undergraduate Students, Higher Education, Private Schools