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Eric Grebing; Julie Edmunds; Elizabeth Glennie; Brian Phillips; Fatih Unlu – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2022
Background/Context: Sometimes students with the academic credentials to attend more selective colleges enroll in a less selective institution or do not enroll at all, a phenomenon known as undermatching (Bowen et al., 2009; Roderick et al., 2011; Smith et al., 2013; Rodriguez, 2015). Undermatching is associated with lower graduation rates and…
Descriptors: College Enrollment, Control Groups, Postsecondary Education, Disadvantaged
Henning, Denise; Hanson, Ivana – Office of Community College Research and Leadership, 2022
Steps taken to address racial inequality in the private sector and higher education are not always altruistic. This brief examines the economic impact of having a representative workforce, focusing on the state of North Carolina (NC). It discusses the importance of successful education programming designed to address issues related to Black,…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Higher Education, Ethnicity, Racial Discrimination
Gilmore, W. Tamikka – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This mixed method study offered an examination of the construct of sense of belonging among adult, community college women in the community college setting and its role on student success. Using academic data from women who met the criteria for the study at the conclusion of Fall 2016, results showed that neither group of women…
Descriptors: Sense of Community, Adult Students, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students
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Finkel, Ed – Community College Journal, 2021
In recent years and especially over the past 12 months, with the COVID-19 pandemic and the unrest after the death of George Floyd, community colleges have been making efforts to view and rethink their missions through an equity lens. These efforts have included turning this prism toward institutional operations like student services, human…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Equal Education, Minority Group Students, Adult Students
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Kurtts, Stephanie A.; Cooper, Jewell E.; Boyles, Carolyn – Teacher Education and Special Education, 2007
In North Carolina, where the state must hire 10,000 teachers every year just to fill existing classrooms, highly qualified special education teachers are included in the top three areas of greatest teacher shortage, behind math and science. Such needs, which include an increase in teachers from ethnic minorities, challenge teacher educators to…
Descriptors: Teacher Shortage, Special Education Teachers, Teacher Educators, Teacher Recruitment
Warren, Chastity K.; Alston, Antoine J. – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2007
The purpose of this study was to gauge the perceptions of North Carolina secondary agricultural educators regarding the benefits and barriers to diversity inclusion in North Carolina secondary agricultural education programs. Additionally, the perceived solutions to increasing diversity inclusion in North Carolina secondary agricultural education…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Barriers, Student Diversity, Cultural Pluralism