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Holly Kosiewicz; Heidi Kane; Trey Miller; Lisa Sontag-Padilla; Denise Williams – RAND Corporation, 2024
Community colleges and the broader U.S. higher education system are struggling to respond to rising rates of mental health problems among students. Without adequate mental health supports, students risk a wide variety of serious and lasting consequences. Confronted with these issues, federal, state, and college officials lack research guidance…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community College Students, Mental Health, Mental Disorders
Lauren E. Chaney – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Due to a decline in civic engagement as well as civic education initiatives, many adults are left without opportunities to be able to learn more about the skills and knowledge needed to participate within society. This dissertation documents civic education initiatives offered to adults in Central Texas. The research questions guiding the study…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Adult Programs, Adult Education, Lifelong Learning
Nanmathi Manian; Chelsea Sorensen – National Comprehensive Center, 2024
Mental health and well-being significantly impact students' academic performance, social interactions, and school engagement. Partnering with communities can enhance the effectiveness and reach of mental health initiatives and supports within educational settings. By collaborating with community organizations and agencies, schools can augment…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Well Being, School Community Relationship, Partnerships in Education
Brenda Carter – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This phenomenological qualitative study has been designed to explore and describe the lived workplace experiences of adjunct faculty who have been employed for at least one academic year at a single district, multi-campus community college, and who are not seeking full-time employment. The focus of their lived workplace experiences is on their…
Descriptors: Adjunct Faculty, Community Colleges, Work Environment, Teacher Attitudes
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Michael E. Beck – Community College Enterprise, 2023
The purpose of this qualitative research study was to illustrate the experiences of transfer students interacting with community college librarians for instruction and research assistance. This research study was guided by one research question: (RQ1) How do transfer students at community colleges who frequently meet with their community college…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Academic Libraries, Librarians, College Students
Prochaska, Dayna Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Basic Need Insecurities often impact the ability of community college students to persist and complete their goals. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated BNI for students' forcing administrators to respond to and address BNI. This study will highlight administrators' responses toward BNI and focus on the changes and/or services administrators…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Administration, Administrators, Community College Students
Susan Sepanik – Center for the Analysis of Postsecondary Readiness, 2023
Large numbers of students entering community colleges are deemed not academically prepared for college-level math. These students have historically been assigned to one or more non-credit-bearing courses for remedial, often called developmental, math instruction before they can take college-level courses. Research has found that most students…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Mathematics, Remedial Mathematics, Developmental Studies Programs
Lisa W. Elliott – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The concern for increasing future student enrollment in a central Texas community college was examined to determine specific strategies to proactively address this problem of professional practice during the ongoing 2020-2021 COVID-19 pandemic and pandemic recurrence. The purpose of this research study was to consider the factors, as identified by…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Community Colleges, High School Graduates, Nontraditional Students
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Victoria D. Vogelgesang – Experiential Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, 2022
This study aims to answer the following research question: How is participation in selected high impact practices (HIPs) that promote social capital associated with community college students' positive civic learning outcomes (CLOs) such as communication and listening, diversity, and consensus-building? This study analyzed responses to the 2019…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Social Capital, Civics, Learner Engagement
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Ibrahim Bicak – Research in Higher Education, 2024
This study describes course withdrawal behaviors in the Texas public higher education institutions and examines the predictors of course withdrawal by using statewide administrative datasets. The findings showed that two-thirds of the college students in the sample withdrew from at least one course, highlighting course withdrawal as a prevalent…
Descriptors: Withdrawal (Education), College Students, Community College Students, Transfer Students
Dan Cullinan – Center for the Analysis of Postsecondary Readiness, 2023
Following up on a previous impact and cost study of the Dana Center Mathematics Pathways (DCMP) model, which used an individual-level randomized controlled trial, this study assesses the costs and cost-effectiveness of the program on longer-term college progress and college attainment. The version of DCMP included in this study diversified the…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Career Choice, Student Interests, Remedial Mathematics
Colorado, Jessica; Klein, Carrie; Whitfield, Christina – State Higher Education Executive Officers, 2023
State postsecondary education data systems are vital assets for policymakers, researchers, and the public. The State Higher Education Executive Officers Association's (SHEEO) Communities of Practice project builds upon SHEEO's efforts to measure the capacity and effective use of state postsecondary data systems and provides states with…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Equal Education, Educational Opportunities, Data Use
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Polletta, Valerie L.; LeBrón, Alana M. W.; Sifuentes, Maribel R.; Mitchell-Bennett, Lisa A.; Ayala, Ciara; Reininger, Belinda M. – Health Education & Behavior, 2021
Background: Chronic care management (CCM) and community health worker (CHW) interventions hold promise for managing complex chronic conditions such as diabetes and related comorbidities. This qualitative study examines facilitators and barriers to the implementation of an expanded CCM intervention that explicitly incorporated program staff, clinic…
Descriptors: Diabetes, Mexican Americans, Adults, Barriers
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Peña-Purcell, Ninfa; Abdoh, Rashid; Hong, Se-Jung; Collins, David; Johnson, Knowlton – Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education, 2021
The Community Readiness Model (CRM) developed and validated by the Tri-Ethnic Center was adapted to identify at-risk communities in six rural Texas counties. Five to six key informants per county were recruited from a variety of community sectors to participate in phone interviews. Paired scorers independently analyzed individual interview…
Descriptors: Models, Drug Abuse, Prevention, Rural Areas
Olmstead, Matthew L. – ProQuest LLC, 2021
A portion of state-allocated funding for Texas community colleges has been reserved for the completion of outcome metrics, also known as performance-based funding. Texas community college leaders are faced with the challenges of adapting to increasing pressures from performance-based funding, while also ensuing institutional missions and goals are…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, State Aid, Community Colleges, Performance Based Assessment
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