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Phil Rodney Wilson – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Teacher certification is an important topic in the history of teaching in American education. Policymakers have recognized that for students to meet high standards, their teachers must also be of high quality (Goldhaber, Perry & Anthony, 2004; McCaffrey, Lockwood, Koretz, & Hamilton, 2003). The National Board for Professional Teaching…
Descriptors: Music Teachers, Music Education, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Certification
Johnston, Renie Elizabeth – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this mixed-methods research study was to determine if the chosen format, online or traditional, of anatomy and physiology courses impacted the retention of the anatomy and physiology knowledge base in the Associate Degree Nursing program at a large-sized, urban community college within the North Carolina Community College System.…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, Anatomy, Physiology, Two Year College Students
North Carolina Community College System, 2019
The Performance Measures for Student Success Report is the North Carolina Community College System's major accountability document. This annual performance report is based on data compiled during the previous year and serves to inform colleges and the public on the performance of the 58 community colleges. In 1993, the State Board of Community…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Accountability, Performance, Skill Development
Vang, Tou H. – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The North Carolina Community College System (NCCCS) is quickly becoming the first choice for many Hmong students to gain an affordable, high-quality education. However, the Hmong population remains one of the few minority groups who are still first-generation and struggles to be college ready. This study used quantitative and qualitative…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Hmong People, Immigrants, First Generation College Students
MDC, Inc., 2015
Community colleges serve a unique purpose in American higher education. For many students, these institutions present the best opportunity for the postsecondary credential needed to pursue a living-wage job with career potential. For others, a community college represents the gateway to a four-year institution or beyond, and potential career paths…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Public Health, Counties, Health Programs
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Dishman, Marcie – Community College Enterprise, 2015
The Internet is a critical tool for higher education institutions as they rely upon their web presence for interaction with multiple stakeholders, including current and prospective students, parents, faculty and staff, and the community (Hong & Kiousis, 2007). As colleges count upon their websites to serve as the primary medium for presenting…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Web Sites, Computer Software, Evaluation
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Pierce, Dennis – Community College Journal, 2017
The universe of objects containing microprocessors or embedded sensors capable of communicating and transmitting information across networks is called the Internet of Things, and it has enormous implications for community colleges. Already, many colleges are saving time and money by monitoring and controlling "smart building" features…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Internet, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Rainey, Katherine; Dancy, Melissa; Mickelson, Roslyn; Stearns, Elizabeth; Moller, Stephanie – International Journal of STEM Education, 2018
Background: Women and students of color are widely underrepresented in most STEM fields. In order to investigate this underrepresentation, we interviewed 201 college seniors, primarily women and people of color, who either majored in STEM or started but dropped a STEM major. Here we discuss one section of the longer interview that focused on…
Descriptors: Racial Differences, Gender Differences, Sense of Community, Decision Making
Dozier, Anthony A. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This paper will provide a detailed review of a study to evaluate the performance of African American males in select career and technical education programs at a large community college in North Carolina. The study will identify which courses this student population outperforms in when compared to other courses based on final grades received and…
Descriptors: African American Students, Vocational Education, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students
North Carolina Community College System, 2019
The North Carolina Community College System's mission includes a responsibility to "open the door to high-quality, accessible educational opportunities that minimize barriers to post-secondary education" and "maximize student success." Access and academic progress are essential for North Carolinians as they explore career…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Access to Education, Achievement Gap, Equal Education
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Lear, Darcy W.; Sanchez, Alejandro – Hispania, 2013
As scholarly work has recently turned its attention to the role of the community partner in Community Service-Learning (CSL) relationships, empirical frameworks for describing and executing community partnerships have emerged. This article applies those frameworks to one such partnership, which is presented from the perspective of both the…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, School Community Programs, School Community Relationship, Group Dynamics
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Hicks, Travis L.; Radtke, Rebekah Ison – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2015
Community-driven design is a current movement in the forefront of many designers' practices and on university campuses in design programs. The authors examine work from their respective public state universities' design programs as examples of best practices. In these case studies, the authors share experiences using community-based design…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Context Effect, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences
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Hamann, Edmund T. – Democracy & Education, 2016
A long-time researcher of "education in the New Latino Diaspora" considers how ephemeral the demographic and sociopolitical contexts were for the endeavors captured in "Building the Dream" but concurs with the aptness of considering the five focal students' participation in a local Spanish radio program as acts of…
Descriptors: Community Organizations, Hispanic Americans, Radio, Spanish
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Chan, Matthew – College and University, 2017
This study provides an overview and a snapshot of new student orientation (NSO) and new student e-orientation (NSEO) programs, with a focus on the content and feature analysis of the NSEOs. It offers an overview of currently available NSO programs of 100 randomly selected community colleges from a master list of nearly 900 community colleges in…
Descriptors: School Orientation, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Outcomes of Education
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Militello, Matthew; Ringler, Marjorie C.; Hodgkins, Lawrence; Hester, Dawn Marie – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2017
We explore the development of community-engaged scholars and practitioners through two distinct lenses: faculty who facilitate engaged learning processes and student-practitioners who are enacting these processes in their work. We use an auto-ethnographic technique, our own stories, to describe the will (motivation) and capacity (knowledge) gained…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Teaching Methods, Leadership Styles, Cognitive Style
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