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Cramblet Alvarez, Leslie D.; Beeton, Renee P.; Saenz, Charles Nicholas; Schell, Lea Ann – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2023
Hispanic-serving Institutions (HSIs) are not typically mission-bound to serve Latinx students. In addition to examining structural changes that embrace an HSI designation, we argue that curriculum is critical in truly serving a diverse student body. Using the case of a small, rural HSI, we describe the process and product of making meaningful…
Descriptors: Minority Serving Institutions, Hispanic American Students, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
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Mackie, Lesley K.; Lenkner, Kayla M.; Gresham, Nicole – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2023
During the pandemic, instruction moved online, and physical formats of media were unable to be used. This presented the opportunity to undertake a quantitative study on the use of streaming videos, particularly in the sciences, at Colorado College. The authors used vendor statistics for the last 5 years (2016-2017 to 2020-2021) and reviewed the…
Descriptors: Science Education, Multimedia Materials, Use Studies, COVID-19
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Trujillo, Nicole; Backen, Rosanna – Journal of Access Services, 2018
Student employees fulfill an essential role at all academic libraries, but budget and staffing cuts have made student work even more imperative at small, public institutions. This article examines a reference service redesign at Adams State University through the lens of the student circulation employees. Student employee feedback was directly…
Descriptors: Reference Services, Feedback (Response), Student Employment, Library Personnel
Fox, Louis – Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, 2007
Advanced information, communication, computation and collaboration technologies, known as "cyberinfrastructure," have become essential elements for research, education, and innovation in the 21st century. A major challenge confronting the United States today is how to ensure that all colleges and universities, including those that have…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Minority Groups, Information Technology, Computer Mediated Communication
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Stimpert, J. L. – Change, 2004
Liberal arts colleges occupy a unique place in the landscape of higher education. Whether defined, as David Breneman has, as an exclusive group of about 200 schools that award a large percentage of their degrees in traditional liberal arts fields, or as a more inclusive group of baccalaureate institutions, liberal arts colleges focus on…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Undergraduate Study, Thinking Skills, College Faculty
Colorado State Board for Community Colleges and Occupational Education, Denver. – 1978
Findings and recommendations of a task force study of funding for small, public colleges in Colorado are detailed in this report. After Chapter I describes the funding and access problems facing the small Colorado colleges, Chapter II outlines the study's parameters, establishing a definition for small colleges, and considering the problems…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Costs, Educational Finance, Educational Planning
Colorado State Board for Community Colleges and Occupational Education, Denver. – 1977
Following an overview of the growth of publicly supported junior colleges in Colorado and corresponding state legislation and policies of the Colorado State Board for Community Colleges and Occupational Education, this paper presents the present position of the Board on issues of student access and the establishment and maintenance of community…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Board of Education Policy, Community Colleges, Declining Enrollment