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Shereika, Brittany L. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Primary research questions: What stories do student parents at Maryland Community College (MCC) tell about their intersecting identities? How do student parents speak about the institutional context of MCC in these stories? What are the implications of these stories in supporting student parents at MCC? Nearly 3.8 million student parents are…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Parents, Student Experience, Stress Variables
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Jankowski, Natasha A.; Baker, Gianina R. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2023
According to the authors, to infuse equity truly in assessment requires that students be actively involved in the process of assessing their own learning. Equitable assessment argues that students can demonstrate attainment of learning outcomes in many ways, and in any particular instance of assessment, students can be offered multiple ways to…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Educational Assessment
Katessa Hammonds – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Life roles of nontraditional college students impact their retention and degree completion. Based on the literature, it was not known how nontraditional students describe how their life roles influence their experiences while they complete a 2-year associate degree from a 2-year college in the southern United States. The purpose of this…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Students, College Students, Student Role, Associate Degrees
Candice Kaup Scioscia – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This qualitative narrative study aimed to explore the impact of the tutor-student relationship on students' perceptions of belonging in community colleges. This study employed a qualitative narrative approach to understand a distinct phenomenon: the influence of the student-tutor relationship on the sense of belonging among community college…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Tutors, Interpersonal Relationship, Personal Narratives
Marlena Yvonne Jarboe – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Twenty-two percent of United States undergraduate students are parents (Cruse, et al., 2020). Referred to as student-parents, they are most likely to have low-incomes and attend community colleges (Cruse, et al., 2019; Gault et al., 2014). They tend to reduce their course loads and drop out of college due to work-life balance challenges even…
Descriptors: Low Income Students, Parents, Community College Students, COVID-19
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Jacquelyn Chin; Samantha Mattis; Josceline Acosta; Amaranta Ramirez; David Rivera; Adrian Valadez; Kathleen Baca Leanos; Isaiah Jones; Alison Cerezo – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
The coronavirus (COVID-19) global pandemic upended the academic trajectories and opportunities of many community college students in the United States. While four-year universities have seen an uptick in applications in the 2021-2022 academic year, community colleges have experienced a sharp decrease in enrollment, signifying significant…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Student Financial Aid, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Lovell, Darrell – Texas Education Review, 2022
This study examines how administrative burden is evolving in college classrooms to meet external pressures focused on student success. Through a mixed methods analysis of data from a 2018 survey, this work tests how faculty and administrators view ownership of the responsibility to meet these mandates and whether it is affecting classroom…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Administrator Attitudes, Success, Student Role
Sujung Kim, Editor; Leigh Garrison-Fletcher, Editor; Kaysi Holman, Editor – Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2024
This book provides concrete examples of humanizing collectivist critical pedagogy, which creates a learning space with students, values their mutual-agency, and invites them to play a leading role in remaking higher education. It redefines student success to include an understanding of positionality, macro social structures, and agency. Each class…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Collectivism, Social Structure, Class Activities
Smith, Cindra J. – Community College League of California, 2018
Student trustees have been members of local community college governing boards since 1977. Local governing boards determine their privileges and establish procedures to elect student trustees. Boards, as well as college administrators, establish the environment and expectations for student trustees. This paper explores the roles and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Student Participation, Trustees
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Amy E. Brown; Susan Bickerstaff; Nikki Edgecombe – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2024
This Postsecondary Teaching with Technology Collaborative (the Collaborative) report examines how faculty and staff at seven community colleges and two broad-access universities reconsidered students' online learning needs in the midst of the pandemic. The report focuses on a set of interconnected student mindsets and competencies that the authors…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Online Courses, College Students, Independent Study
Dray, Patricia L. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
With the projected growth of the older adult population, an anticipated increase can be expected in the number of third-age learners (60-80 years-of-age) returning to college due to life transitions, pursuit of encore careers, or for the purposes of generativity, and self-actualization. In a society that values youth, and whose institutions…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Rural Areas, Older Adults, Nontraditional Students
Murúa, Vanessa – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This paper discusses a collaborative inquiry (CI) that explored a California community college program known as Puente. The purpose of the inquiry was to bring together different stakeholders involved with Puente---students, mentors, counselors, and instructors---to engage in group dialogue and share their perceptions about the functions of the…
Descriptors: Program Descriptions, Community Colleges, Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes
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Monje-Paulson, Laura N.; Olson, Avery B.; Pizzolato, Jane Elizabeth; Sullivan, Kamisha A. – College Student Affairs Journal, 2019
Given the size of the adult student population and the student affairs focus on career development in traditional age students, the purpose of this qualitative study was to explore career development and the vocational self-concept (VSC) in 48 California community college welfare-to-work students. Findings suggest the importance of congruence…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Career Development, Self Concept, Community Colleges
Rennie Center for Education Research & Policy, 2022
Each year, the Rennie Center collects a set of key indicators in the Data Dashboard to provide context on the status of education in the Commonwealth. This data is collected from the MA Department of Early Education and Care; MA Department of Elementary and Secondary Education; MA Department of Higher Education; U.S. Census Bureau; U.S. Department…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Felmer, Patricio, Ed.; Liljedahl, Peter, Ed.; Koichu, Boris, Ed. – Research in Mathematics Education, 2019
Recent research in problem solving has shifted its focus to actual classroom implementation and what is really going on during problem solving when it is used regularly in classroom. This book seeks to stay on top of that trend by approaching diverse aspects of current problem solving research, covering three broad themes. Firstly, it explores the…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Problem Solving, Faculty Development, Mathematics Teachers
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