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Patrice Alsaden; Kathryn Bell – Community College Enterprise, 2024
Since their inception in 1901, community colleges (CCs) have been a bastion of open-access education for everyone, serving as entryways to post-secondary education for countless students regardless of their sociodemographic and socioacademic backgrounds. On average, students from minoritized backgrounds (SFMBs) make up at least 50% of student…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Best Practices, Inclusion, College Faculty
Juan Alberto Martinez Acevedo – ProQuest LLC, 2023
City Colleges of Chicago undergo policy changes. In 2010, a reform sought to install accountability and transition City Colleges of Chicago into compliance with government funding requests through Reinvention. Reinvention, in the public view, was hailed as a necessity for a system that could not sustain on its own. It used a shock-system…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Faculty Advisers, Student Mobility, Programs
Excelencia in Education, 2021
What works to improve the success of Latino college students? Examples of "Excelencia" is the only national effort to identify and promote evidence-based programs accelerating Latino student success in higher education. Since 2005, "Excelencia" in Education has recognized over 350 programs making a positive difference in the…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, College Students, Success, Evidence Based Practice
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
Zuerner, Kelly – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The importance of establishing positive relationships is a common theme in educational philosophies and recommended practice. Educators inherently believe this to be true. It is assumed relationships are the key to academic and behavioral success, as well as students' social emotional well-being. Furthermore, relationships may even be the key to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Discipline, Sense of Community, Suburban Schools
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Nicole Russo-Ponsaran; Ashley Karls; Dennis Sotelo Martinez; Allison Wainer; Sandra Barrueco – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2023
Background: The number of English learner (EL) students has been steadily increasing within the United States and currently includes more than 5M students. The National Education Association (2020) estimated that by 2025, nearly 25% of all learners will be EL students. Curricula, interventions, and assessments for both diagnostic and academic…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Community Involvement, Student Recruitment, Spanish
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Guth, Douglas J. – Community College Journal, 2018
Community college students are faced with a variety of complex procedures and decisions, from navigating financial aid applications and lengthy course lists, all the while determining how these immediate choices will serve their long-term educational goals. For many individuals either thinking about community college or already enrolled, these…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Students, Student Characteristics, College Administration
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Harbour, Clifford P.; Bower, Beverly L. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2020
In this paper, we offer a philosophical argument explaining why and how community college leaders may support the adoption and implementation of campus climate action plans. Our argument is based on the community college philosophical commitment to service (to the community, the state, and the nation) and the challenges posed by climate change and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Climate, Planning, Philosophy
Illinois Community College Board, 2022
Community colleges report general opening spring term enrollment figures to the Illinois Community College Board using a brief web-based survey. These figures reflect student enrollments as of the end of registration for the Spring 2022 semester--usually the 10th day of the term. Community colleges in Illinois serve a racially and ethnically…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Enrollment Rate, Enrollment Trends
Caronna, Gina – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This quantitative study investigated the academic outcomes of high school students from one community college district in Illinois who took a high school transitional math course designed to give them direct placement into a college-level math course. The goal of successful completion of a transitional math course is to allow students direct…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Placement, College Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction
Cathy Y. Taylor – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study explored how associate deans in Illinois community colleges understand and practice culturally responsive leadership (CRL) in their institutions. The conceptual framework for this study is composed of the Culturally Responsive School Leadership (CRSL) model in the K-12 system first proposed by Khalifa et al. (2016) and the Applied…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Culturally Relevant Education, Deans, Educational Practices
Audrey J. Riley-Whitson – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This narrative study explored the experiences of teachers of color working with at-risk youth in marginalized communities during and after the pandemic. Before the pandemic, teachers faced many challenges, such as low pay, being stressed, overworked with a lack of resources, being overlooked, and not appreciated for their hard work. The Critical…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, COVID-19, Pandemics, Public Schools
Jacob Cushing – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This dissertation examined the acculturation experience of community college international students in the hopes of providing practitioners with a guide on best support practices. Considering the important contributions international students at community colleges make to the economy and the diverse environment at community colleges, it is…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Community College Students, Acculturation, Student Experience
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Becca Hartman-Pickerill; Rebecca Russo – Journal of College and Character, 2024
Interfaith America's 2023 Landscape Analysis explores the purpose, range of desired outcomes, promising models, challenges, and opportunities of bridgebuilding efforts across U.S. higher education. This article articulates the importance of bridgebuilding for the sector and summarizes key findings from the Landscape Analysis. It highlights…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Practices, Partnerships in Education, Campuses
Region 9 Comprehensive Center, 2024
This document was created as a resource to identify and describe four properties of effective resource allocation systems to help anchor the resource allocation review process in the State of Illinois and build districts' understanding of these properties. An effective resource allocation system will have the following properties: (1)…
Descriptors: Resource Allocation, Educational Equity (Finance), Financial Policy, Stakeholders
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