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Siler, Demetria N. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
For years now, reports by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) on local and national community colleges consistently show how the number of Black faculty employed at community colleges is relatively lower than the number of White faculty. Recent data show that Black faculty represent only 7.4% of all instructional staff in community…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Faculty, African American Teachers, Disproportionate Representation
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Ford, Katherine; Pinedo, Mónica Calderón – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2022
Barriers to higher education persist among the Latino population across the United States. This project (IRB approval 18-001240), framed within the Engagement and Outreach Scholars Academy at East Carolina University, aimed to identify the obstacles to accessing higher education faced by the local Latino community and evaluate some ways to make…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Barriers, Hispanic Americans, Outreach Programs
Fuga, Michael T. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
English Language Learners (ELLs) are students that speak a primary language other than English. The number of ELLs continues to grow in the United States with the current majority having Spanish as their base language (Ortiz & Pagan, 2009). Since the implementation of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) in 2001, schools are held accountable for…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Community Involvement, Middle Schools, Parent School Relationship
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Denman, Paige M.; Corrales, Jill M.; Smyth, Stephanie; Craven, Katie – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2018
This qualitative case study examines the personal experiences of the authors as members of an informal support group during the dissertation phase of their doctoral process. The group consisted of four Caucasian women ranging in age from 33 to 51 years of age when the group formed. Group e-mail messages in the form of archival data taken from…
Descriptors: Social Support Groups, Communities of Practice, Females, Graduate Students
Bowen, Laura Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Placement of students entering community colleges would, intuitively, seem like a simple process. Students recently graduating from high school would naturally be ready for college-level coursework and able to enroll in credit-bearing courses from the outset. Unfortunately, myriad research exists illustrating quite the contrary. In fact, the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Student Placement, Remedial Instruction
Center for Community College Student Engagement, 2018
Advising is powerful because it attends to core elements of each student's success: setting academic goals based on transfer and/or career interests, developing an academic plan to attain those goals, and staying on track until those goals are met. Each of these big-picture tasks encompasses dozens of smaller ones which include: (1) Raising…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Academic Advising, Learner Engagement, School Support
Rowland, Cortney; Feygin, Amy; Lee, Fanny; Gomez, Sebastian; Rasmussen, Claudette – American Institutes for Research, 2018
During the past decade, states and districts have made significant investments in developing systems to measure teacher performance. The goals of such systems are to improve practice, inform professional growth, and ultimately improve student learning. In the very best of these systems, educators know the expected teaching standards and receive…
Descriptors: School Districts, Communities of Practice, Vignettes, Accountability
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Guth, Douglas J. – Community College Journal, 2019
Community colleges strive to fulfill the unique needs of military service members, veterans and their families, a mission harkening back to wartime and the decades in which the nation's fighters were off the battlefield. Educating the nation's servicemen and women has long been a core undertaking of many community colleges, particularly in regions…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Veterans Education, Military Personnel, Access to Education
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Morgan, Kristin L.; Crenshaw, Jasmine D.; Martin, Marcus L. – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2021
The proportion of underrepresented minority (URM) students graduating with Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) degrees, matriculating to graduate programs, and entering the STEM workforce continues to be significantly low. The Virginia-North Carolina Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (the VA-NC Alliance)…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Student Recruitment, Academic Persistence, Enrichment Activities
Parsi, Ace – National Association of State Boards of Education, 2015
Education is a $600 billion-a-year enterprise, but the investments states make in education will not benefit students unless they are physically and mentally present in the classroom. Too many students are not. In this report, the National Association of State Boards of Education asks policymakers to promote student engagement through a suite of…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Teacher Role, Parent Role, Community Role
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Dunst, Carl J. – International Journal of Early Childhood Environmental Education, 2020
Young children birth to 6-years of age and their families were each studied for 6 months to identify the everyday family and community activities that were sources of informal everyday learning opportunities. The participants included 115 children with identified disabilities or developmental delays and 91 children without disabilities or delays.…
Descriptors: Young Children, Developmental Delays, Developmental Disabilities, Educational Opportunities
AASA, The School Superintendent's Association, 2020
The goal of this American Association of School Administrators (AASA) youth apprenticeship toolkit is to encourage the creation of school and business partnerships as a viable and expansive pathway to success in school, career and work. This toolkit provides resources for secondary and community college administrators to advocate for and build…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Apprenticeships, Secondary School Students, Community Colleges
White, Shelley Yarbrough – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Once a community college graduate completes an associate's degree, the institution is committing to the public that the graduate possesses a prescriptive set of knowledge, skills, and abilities either gained through, or enhanced by, their college attendance. At most institutions, these skill sets are assessed almost exclusively through internal…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Competence, Two Year College Students, Two Year Colleges
Vester, Jonathan Steven – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Once a community college graduate completes an associate's degree, the institution is committing to the public that the graduate possesses a prescriptive set of knowledge, skills, and abilities either gained through, or enhanced by, their college attendance. At most institutions, these skill sets are assessed almost exclusively through internal…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Competence, Two Year College Students, Two Year Colleges
Lang, Clayton, Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine the extent of success and the challenges faced by community college presidents in creating an entrepreneurial culture. Fourteen American community colleges, identified by Roueche and Jones (2005), were surveyed for this study. These fourteen community colleges are located in Texas, Florida,…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Community Colleges, College Presidents, Administrator Attitudes
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