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Direct linkDale, Paul A.; Drake, Tonya M. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2005
As community colleges embrace learning-centered practices, student affairs professionals have an opportunity to recommit to building and maintaining partnerships with their academic colleagues. This chapter explores the development, nature, and culture of learning-centered partnerships between academic and student affairs professionals, identifies…
Descriptors: Student Personnel Services, Community Colleges, Student Personnel Workers, Partnerships in Education
Person, Dawn R.; Ellis, Pilar; Plum, Caryn; Boudreau, Debra – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2005
This chapter describes two emerging theories that inform career counseling and explores how they can strengthen student success programs for underrepresented populations. The chapter also describes several effective programs and services that support traditionally underrepresented students as they prepare for, succeed in, and make the transition…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Community Colleges, Disproportionate Representation, Social Theories
Gonzalez, Kenneth P.; Jovel, Jennifer E.; Stoner, Carla – New Directions for Student Services, 2004
The numbers of Latinas who attend college, stay in college, graduate, and attend graduate school escalated in the 1990s, surpassing gains made by any other underrepresented group of students in higher education. However, their achievements come at a personal cost, as the high-achieving Latinas profiled in this chapter demonstrate.
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Hispanic American Students, College Students, Females
Download full textCochrane, Deborah Frankle – Institute for College Access & Success, 2007
Financial aid can encourage students to enroll in college and increase their odds of academic success. While the California community colleges (CCCs) have very low fees, which are waived for most low-income students, the additional expenses of books, supplies, transportation, housing, food and childcare can create significant financial barriers to…
Descriptors: Student Needs, College Students, Community Colleges, Interviews
Crawford, Chemene – Online Submission, 2005
The purpose of this applied dissertation was to develop a blueprint for community college leaders within the University and Community College System of Nevada (UCCSN) who want to develop 4-year degree programs at their individual institutions. Many of these leaders were not aware of what is involved in preparing a community college to undertake…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Bachelors Degrees, Program Design, Interviews
Hagedorn, Linda Serra – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2004
This chapter uses data from the Transfer and Retention of Urban Community College Students project to provide evidence of success among racially diverse students in the Los Angeles Community College District. Through interviews with student services personnel, it also describes the specific efforts that may be responsible for this success. In…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Urban Schools, Student Diversity, Ethnic Groups
