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Ess Pokornowski – ITHAKA S+R, 2024
Now that federal Pell Grant funding has been reinstated for learners who are incarcerated, the field is in flux. Higher education in prison programs and their home institutions, departments of correction, and accreditation and oversight bodies are all adapting and developing their practices to meet new policy and regulation needs. Two major facets…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Grants, Federal Aid, Reentry Students
Palmer, Iris; Prebil, Michael; Rush-Marlowe, Rachel – New America, 2023
To better understand the challenges and opportunities facing community colleges that want to expand apprenticeship opportunities to their students, New America conducted a year-long study. We created an advisory committee to guide this work and spoke to apprenticeship, workforce development, and community college leaders about the community…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Apprenticeships, Community College Students, Educational Strategies
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Jeff Deickman; James Mattox; Phillip A. Morris – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2024
This study evaluates the implementation of policies and practices related to prior learning assessment (PLA) for military training and experience in Colorado community colleges. Through conducting interviews and a document analysis, this case study aimed to provide policy and practice recommendations for states, systems, and institutions to…
Descriptors: Military Service, Military Personnel, Community Colleges, Prior Learning
Colorado, Jessica; Klein, Carrie; Whitfield, Christina – State Higher Education Executive Officers, 2023
State postsecondary education data systems are vital assets for policymakers, researchers, and the public. The State Higher Education Executive Officers Association's (SHEEO) Communities of Practice project builds upon SHEEO's efforts to measure the capacity and effective use of state postsecondary data systems and provides states with…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Equal Education, Educational Opportunities, Data Use
Olgin, John Gilbert – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation will address the questions: In what ways can MBR theory be applied to design training that will improve the capacity of Citizen scientists to collect and analyze high quality scientific data?; To what degree does this training impact their ability to formulate complex understandings of environmental problems in their Citizen? The…
Descriptors: Community Education, Service Learning, Science Education, Conservation (Environment)
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Gaddis, Maggie – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2022
This paper describes the master course design process at the largest institution of higher education in Colorado, USA. The master course design process demonstrated principles of backwards design and employed a team-based approach to course development. The course map was the primary vehicle for communicating the design of the course during…
Descriptors: College Science, Botany, Curriculum Design, Community Colleges
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Holly Fortener; Leilani A. Arthurs; Patrick Shabram; Pierre Lu; Chu-Lin Cheng; Stephanie Plaza-Torres; Carly Flaagan – Higher Education Studies, 2024
Teaching-focused professional development (PD) programs offered at institutions of higher education (IHEs) are uniquely positioned to be levers of change that improve the quality of undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education in ways that broaden participation in STEM education, workforce development, and…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Higher Education, STEM Education, Undergraduate Study
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Jonah Kushner; Lindsay Daugherty – RAND Corporation, 2024
This report describes how six Colorado community colleges used $1.4 million of pandemic relief funding to support individuals pursuing short-term credentials. The authors examined state and college decisions about program eligibility, student eligibility, grant amounts, funding uses, and application requirements as well as outcomes for those…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Budgeting, Financial Support, Credentials
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Margot A. Vigeant; Daniel Anastasio; Daniel D. Burkey; Michael Barankin; Taryn M. Bayles; Laura P. Ford; Tracy Q. Gardner; Milo D. Koretsky; Daniel Lepek; Matthew W. Liberatore – Chemical Engineering Education, 2024
The ASEE/AIChE Chemical Engineering Summer School (ChESS) is a week-long quinquennial faculty development event that brings together early-career faculty for workshops and community building for nearly 100 years. The most recent ChESS took place from July 25-29, 2022 at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, CO, and brought together over 200…
Descriptors: Chemical Engineering, Summer Schools, Faculty Development, College Faculty
National Education Association, 2023
Last summer, the National Education Association (NEA) developed a New Business Item to explore retrenchment: "The NEA shall make a statistical study on the effect of significant faculty retrenchment at community colleges on future faculty cuts" (NBI 78, 2022). ASA Research (ASA) conducted exploratory research in an attempt to identify…
Descriptors: Retrenchment, Faculty Mobility, Employment Practices, College Faculty
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Schwab-Reese, Laura M.; Albright, Karen; Krugman, Richard D. – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2023
Background: Although mandatory reporting has grown substantially in scope and geographical coverage, there is limited empirical evidence to support its effectiveness in preventing harm to children. In the absence of rigorous evaluations, comparing the perspectives of individuals who work in systems with and without mandatory reporting provides…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Foreign Countries, Disclosure
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Philis M. Barragán Goetz; Rubén Donato; David G. García; Gonzalo Guzmán; Jarrod Hanson; Maribel Santiago – Teachers College Record, 2023
Mexican American educational history has become a vibrant field of study since the late 1980s. In the last seven years, however, it is notable that this research has inspired community-based efforts to preserve and publicly commemorate challenges to unequal education. In this commentary, we discuss the archival recovery of the "Francisco…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Educational History, Equal Education, Court Litigation
Laura Bruch – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This qualitative inquiry evaluated Colorado Mountain College's (CMC) in-house Mountain Scholars Program (MSP) via semi-structured interviews with five of its Latino alumni. This study's assets-based social justice/transformative philosophical framework included David Fetterman's methodological empowerment evaluation and Tara Yosso's conceptual…
Descriptors: Alumni, Outcomes of Education, Program Evaluation, Student Personnel Services
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Quinn Hafen; Shiloh Dailey; Jordan Brooks; Jennifer Currin-McCulloch – Journal of LGBT Youth, 2024
Students and employees from Colorado State University School of Social Work partnered to co-lead a comprehensive student and employee community-building initiative focused on enhancing 2SLGBTQ+ student and employee well-being and belonging. The Queer Umbrella, created in response to queer and trans-identifying students and employees' experiences…
Descriptors: Higher Education, LGBTQ People, Sexual Identity, Student Welfare
Averi Pakulis; Nadia Gronkowski – First Focus on Children, 2024
Home visiting connects expectant parents, new caregivers, and their young children with a support person, called a home visitor. The home visitor meets regularly with the family, develops a relationship with them, and supports them to achieve their goals and meet their needs. To reach the thousands of additional families who could benefit from…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Home Programs, Models, Language Usage
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