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Etelvina De La Torre – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The lack of representation of Latina community college presidents in California is an equity and social justice issue because the majority of students enrolled in community colleges are female and Latina but White men continue to dominate the office of the president. This issue is timely given the number of baby boomers who will be retiring in the…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, College Presidents, Community Colleges, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
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Jesse Rothstein; Elise Dizon-Ross; Johanna Lacoe – California Policy Lab, 2024
The California Community College (CCC) system serves a large student body, diverse in backgrounds, experiences, and educational goals. This report uses data from the CCC system's records to measure variation in achievement across the state's Strong Workforce Regions. We consider a range of achievement measures, including initial enrollments,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community College Students, Student Characteristics, College Readiness
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Grosz, Michel; Kurlaender, Michal; Stevens, Ann – Research in Higher Education, 2022
This article asks whether small changes to community college courses and programs can help improve student outcomes. We use administrative data from the California Community College system, including millions of student records and detailed course-level information for most career-technical education programs in the state. We construct a summary…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Vocational Education, Outcomes of Education, Flexible Scheduling
Yang, Edith; Halpin, Peter; Handy, Daniel – MDRC, 2022
Postsecondary institutions, and particularly community colleges, are positioned well to train more and more of the nation's entry- and middle-skill workers. The New World of Work (NWoW), a program that promoted teaching and learning soft skills, was designed in 2012 and operated briefly in over 75 community colleges in California. The program…
Descriptors: Soft Skills, Psychometrics, Evaluation, Community Colleges
Pirtle, Toni Louise – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This qualitative case study used the Technology Acceptance Model as a framework to guide this study of the social media practices of thirteen Community Colleges within the Central Region of California. The problem addressed by this study was that the California Community Colleges are not meeting the goals of Chancellor's Vision for Success to be…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Social Media, Web Sites, Computer Mediated Communication
Deborah M. Abrams – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study explores the perceptions of Hispanic students regarding their teachers' equity-oriented classroom practices at Mt. San Jacinto College (MSJC), a majority-Hispanic community college in Southern California. The study used a qualitative phenomenological approach and involved twelve participants: three teachers and nine Hispanic students.…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Student Attitudes, College Faculty, Equal Education
Joel Knudson; Marina Castro – California Collaborative on District Reform, 2024
The many pressures facing school districts -- academic and social-emotional recovery from the pandemic, educator shortages, fragmented funding streams and programs, and more -- can easily overwhelm educators and distract from the core work of instruction and student learning. Locally elected school boards, the governing bodies responsible for…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Governance, School Districts, Leadership Effectiveness
California Community Colleges, Chancellor's Office, 2024
Pursuant to California Education Code provisions 17201(i)(1)(B)(C), 17203.5, and 66014.6, the California Community Colleges Student Housing 2024 report provides the following information: (1) the 2024 Annual Progress on California Community Colleges Affordable Student Housing; (2) the 2024 California Community Colleges Housing Insecurity; and (3)…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Housing, College Programs, Grants
Maria Guadalupe Montejano – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The Latinx population in California surpassed 15 million in 2022, constituting 39% of the state's residents. Despite Latinx students making up nearly half of the California Community Colleges (CCC) student body in 2019, there remains a notable lack of Latina representation in CCC leadership. To understand this disparity, a qualitative study…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Administrators, Disproportionate Representation, Hispanic Americans
Valenzuela, Ireri; Nguyen, Alyssa – RP Group, 2021
While data on enrollment, performance, persistence, and completion can offer directional information about access and success for different student groups, they do not provide the "why" behind these measures. Asking students directly about their experiences at the institution can help with a more comprehensive understanding of how to…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Focus Groups, Educational Change
Grosz, Michel – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
I estimate the effect of attending an associate's degree in nursing program on nursing licensure. I use student-level academic data for all California community college students, matched to public records on all nursing licenses earned in the state. I produce causal estimates using random variation from admissions lotteries at a large nursing…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, Community Colleges, Certification, Associate Degrees
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Ching, Cheryl D. – American Educational Research Journal, 2023
While there is no shortage of scholarship on "equity" in higher education, researchers typically examine whether a policy or practice is (in)equitable rather than how those responsible for designing and enacting a policy or practice make meaning of equity. Using a sensemaking framework and case study approach, I explored the collective…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Equal Education, Educational Policy, Educational Practices
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Yücel, Elif – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2023
Community College Reentry Programs (CCRPs) are campus-based programs that serve formerly incarcerated students by providing targeted services attuned to their needs. Currently, there are 62 community colleges in California that have CCRPs. While emerging research has begun to examine the experiences of students in these programs, little is known…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Activism, Leadership Styles, Community College Students
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Oliver, Daniel M. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2023
The role of racial diversity at colleges has been debated for over more than a half a century with limited quasi-experimental evidence from classrooms. To fill this void, I estimate the extent that classmate racial compositions affect Hispanic and African American students at a large and oversubscribed California community college where they are…
Descriptors: Disproportionate Representation, Minority Group Students, Peer Relationship, Diversity
Joseph J. Cascio – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this quantitative correlational associative study was to determine if, or to what extent, there was a statistically significant correlation between the sub-scales of transformational leadership (inspirational motivation, high performance expectations, modeling appropriate behaviors, individualized consideration, intellectual…
Descriptors: Transformational Leadership, Correlation, Leadership Styles, Athletic Coaches
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