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Dereme, Theresa – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This qualitative research is a narrative research study of the experiences of eight post traditional students enrolled in the case study community college. The student participants were invited to be part of this research based on their demographic. Male students over the age of 24, matriculated in a program of study with a minimum of 12 credits…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Males, Student Experience, Adult Students
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Matthea Marquart – Journal of Faculty Development, 2023
This article shares a strategy for supporting faculty engagement and wellbeing. During the online faculty development sessions at Columbia University's School of Social Work (CSSW), online faculty and staff have the opportunity to give short presentations about a teaching and learning technique they have tried. Over the past five years, this…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Participation, Faculty Development, Well Being
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Altman, William S.; Pena-Shaff, Judith B.; Nicholls, Craig; Domingo, Cassandra – Teaching of Psychology, 2022
Background: Reading comprehension and writing ability are critical to students' success in introductory psychology. However, these generally are not prerequisites. There is conflicting evidence with regard to the effectiveness of remedial reading and writing classes for students with low placement exam scores. Objectives: To explore whether…
Descriptors: Readiness, Academic Achievement, Introductory Courses, Psychology
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Wilson, Marguerite Anne Fillion – Whiteness and Education, 2022
This article reports on a critical qualitative study of a whiteness workshop series to understand the past experiences, contexts, and relationships that motivate White people and people of colour to participate in an in-depth anti-racism workshop, and what participants learn through engaging in this workshop series. First, most participants, White…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Workshops, Whites, Racism
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Williams, Olajide; Leighton-Herrmann Quinn, Ellyn; Colello, Anna; Perdomo, Crismely; Chong, Ji; Thompsen, Bill; Wyrick, Tiana; Brissette, Ian; Labovitz, Daniel – Health Education Journal, 2019
Objective: Community stroke education is a regulated, integral component of stroke systems of care. However, little is known about the types of activities conducted by hospitals. This study was designed to examine the annual requirement for community stroke education among New York State's 119 designated Primary Stroke Centres and identify areas…
Descriptors: Brain, Neurological Impairments, Community Education, Hospitals
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Ava Y. Goodale; Michael P. Gilmore; Brian M. Griffiths – Environmental Education Research, 2025
Environmental stewardship education, as a locally oriented concept, benefits from being recast to account for the emergent, multidimensional, and interdisciplinary nature of today's most pressing socio-ecological issues. In an effort to infuse environmental stewardship education with global citizenship, instructional materials on community-based…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Global Approach, Citizenship, Conservation (Environment)
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Johnson, Tonya; Lehner, Edward – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2021
New York State, in all of its regions, has a growing number of diverse public-school students, including many immigrant groups, accounting for a significant change in the ethnic and racial demographics of the state's student population. Despite the rapidly changing student population, the teaching force nonetheless remains disproportionately White…
Descriptors: Paraprofessional School Personnel, Public School Teachers, Teacher Certification, Urban Areas
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Lipke, Tamara; Manaseri, Holly – School Leadership Review, 2019
Effective K-12 leaders remain a central concern for schools and communities of all types. The purpose of this research is to examine critically the literature on issues facing leaders in rural and urban settings and present a synthesis of cross-cutting themes. The authors reviewed the theoretical and empirical literature on K-12 leadership issues…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Instructional Leadership, Leadership Training, Rural Schools
Jessica Ann Fudge – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This qualitative study examined how elementary school leaders from K-5 schools in eastern New York addressed contextual factors in implementing and sustaining professional learning communities (PLCs). Senge (1990) posited structures need to be in place to create and facilitate collaborative communities. A complementary position presents…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Elementary Schools, Leadership Effectiveness, Kindergarten
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Kuban, Adam J.; Purcell, Jennifer W.; Jones, Brytnie D. – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2020
The purpose of this reflective essay is to encourage the discussion of community-engaged scholarship (CES) that does not progress as planned. Insufficient attention is given to lessons gleaned from missteps and outright failures experienced by scholars in the field, which results in a paucity of documented cases and recommendations for…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Faculty Development, Reflective Teaching, Scholarship
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Chloe D. Bowen; Alexa R. Summersill; Angela N. Google; Madeline G. Aadnes; M. Elizabeth Barnes – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2023
Effective communication about science is a core skill undergraduates should learn, but little research has explored how students communicate about culturally controversial science topics. In this study, we explored how Black undergraduate science students took on the role of science communicators in their communities during the COVID-19 pandemic.…
Descriptors: African American Students, Undergraduate Students, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Romano, Richard M.; Kirshstein, Rita J.; D'Amico, Mark; Hom, Willard; Van Noy, Michelle – Community College Review, 2019
Objective: In the first study of its kind, the impact of excluding noncredit enrollments in calculations of spending in community colleges is explored. Noncredit enrollments are not reported to Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), but expenditures for these efforts are. This study corrects for this omission and provides new…
Descriptors: Paying for College, Noncredit Courses, Enrollment, Computation
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Russell, S. Garnett; Mantilla-Blanco, Paula – American Journal of Education, 2022
Purpose: Schools play an important role in the incorporation of newcomer students and for determining who belongs and does not belong to the nation-state. In this article, we analyze students' experiences of belonging and exclusion in diverse high schools. Research Methods/Approach: We use survey and interview data from a mixed-methods study…
Descriptors: High School Students, Diversity (Institutional), Group Membership, Interpersonal Relationship
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Raymer, Annalisa L. – Commission for International Adult Education, 2018
Over 200 municipalities from 48 countries belong to a global network of localities working independently and collectively to realize a robust concept of cities, towns and regions as ecosystems of lifelong learning for the well-being of individuals, communities, nations and the planet. What is the number of U.S. localities participating? Zero. This…
Descriptors: International Cooperation, International Organizations, Municipalities, Lifelong Learning
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Meredith Manze; Dana Watnick; Lauren Rauh; Polly Smith-Faust – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
We sought to understand barriers and facilitators to academic engagement among student parents at six community colleges, through in-depth interviews with student parents, staff, and faculty members (n = 49). Using a grounded theory approach, we found parents were expected to repeatedly self-advocate and request accommodations such as for extended…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Undergraduate Students, Parents, Self Advocacy
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