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Heriberto Hernandez – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The efficacy of the CTE curriculum and program delivery can be affected by both internal and external factors. In an effort for community colleges to improve graduation and retention rates, institutions are developing enrollment and retention strategies that involve scheduling options. The purpose of this causal-comparative quantitative study was…
Descriptors: School Schedules, Scheduling, Technical Education, Vocational Education
Lindy Matthews – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study explores the issue of food insecurity within community colleges in Texas and highlights administrator's responses toward best and most promising practices and challenges in addressing food insecurity. The research was guided by complex adaptive systems theory and cynefin. Food insecurity among college students, especially community…
Descriptors: Food, Hunger, Administrator Role, Barriers
Palmer, Iris; Prebil, Michael; Rush-Marlowe, Rachel – New America, 2023
To better understand the challenges and opportunities facing community colleges that want to expand apprenticeship opportunities to their students, New America conducted a year-long study. We created an advisory committee to guide this work and spoke to apprenticeship, workforce development, and community college leaders about the community…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Apprenticeships, Community College Students, Educational Strategies
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Leysath, Maggie Ann – Teaching Artist Journal, 2022
Safety protocols for COVID-19 necessitated changes to this action research project. This article describes the theoretical framework of Community-Based Art Education for providing Service-Learning in an art education preparation program during the global pandemic. Art education students joined the local Boys & Girls Club (BGC) and a local…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Art Education, Community Programs
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Magdalena Denham; Lee M. Miller; Joyce K. Mccauley; Danica Schieber; Taylor L. Morrison; Chuck Drumm – Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education, 2024
Institutions of higher education are increasingly highlighting community engagement activities to make the benefits of higher education more visible. The most transformational community engagement is linked to curriculum, so it is faculty who must incorporate community-engaged pedagogy. This content analysis of faculty narratives about community…
Descriptors: Awards, Motivation Techniques, Teacher Motivation, Professional Recognition
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Carmen Shurtleff – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2024
Research consistently describes the large percentage of community college students who struggle to meet their basic needs such as food and housing. These challenges may be exacerbated for students in rural communities. At the same time, we are also learning more about the connection between addressing students' basic needs and improving their…
Descriptors: Food Service, Rural Colleges, Community College Students, Hunger
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Bunn, Taylor D.; Howell, Leanne; Papadakis, Lacy K. Crocker – Impacting Education: Journal on Transforming Professional Practice, 2022
People with disabilities in the United States have access to a fraction of engaging play experiences available to others due to playground design choices, minimal legal requirements, and societal acceptance of the status quo. PlayGrand Adventures, the first and largest all-abilities playground in North Texas, meets this need by providing engaging…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Involvement, Playgrounds, Inclusion
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Erin Doran – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2024
The purpose of this study is to highlight Mexican American Studies programs in community colleges, a sector where Ethnic Studies has largely gone unstudied. Drawing on interviews from 13 faculty members across Texas, this study describes these instructors' approach to teaching and the impact they feel this type of curriculum has on students'…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Ethnic Studies, Community Colleges, College Faculty
Anna Ingram – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The study explores the faculty, staff, and student perceptions of how leadership decisions impacted Odessa College, a Texas community college, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Community colleges in Texas have experienced a decrease in enrollment in recent years. The pandemic exacerbated the problem, as evidenced by the further drop in enrollment in…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Community Colleges, COVID-19, Pandemics
Hodara, Michelle; Brey, Libbie; McLennan, Destiny; Riggs, Sam – Education Northwest, 2023
In the past few decades, the cost of college has risen significantly, while federal, state, and institutional financial aid and family income have remained stagnant or declined (Goldrick-Rab, 2018). As a result, many college students struggle to afford the full cost of college attendance and may experience basic needs insecurity, including the…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Student Personnel Services, College Students, Program Effectiveness
John Diamond; Sukanya Barman; Rebekah O’Donoghue; Erick Alonzo – MDRC, 2024
More than half of community college students nationwide intend to pursue a four-year degree; however, in Texas only one in four community college students transfer to four-year institutions successfully. Among students who do transfer to a Texas four-year institution, roughly 60 percent go on to graduate with a bachelor's degree. The result is…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Transfer Students, Pilot Projects, Community College Students
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Jorge Burmicky; Christopher Estrella-Ramirez; Susana H. Hernández; Wonsun Ryu; Rodrigo Aguayo; Victor B. Sáenz – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
This multi-sited case study explored Men of Color (MoC) programs at Hispanic-serving community colleges. By employing frameworks designed to make meaning of Hispanic-serving institution (HSI) organizational identity, we examined how MoC program practitioners define the organizational identity of their Hispanic-serving community college, and how…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, Hispanic American Students, Minority Serving Institutions, Community Colleges
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Lively, Cece Lynn; Blevins, Brooke; Talbert, Sandra; Cooper, Sandi – Impacting Education: Journal on Transforming Professional Practice, 2021
Despite high attrition rates and abundant criticisms, online graduate programs continue to grow. This paper describes the efforts of one online doctoral program that focused on developing programmatic support structures to increase community. Utilizing a qualitative, case study research design, including surveys and semi structured interviews,…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Electronic Learning, Sense of Community, Doctoral Students
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Hernández, Susana H.; McKinney, Lyle; Burridge, Andrea; O'Brien, Catherine A. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2023
The corequisite support model is a promising developmental education reform effort that is helping students transition into college-level coursework more quickly. The purpose of this chapter is to shed light on the critical leadership that has enhanced student success in corequisite courses and hold promise in enhancing equity within developmental…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Community Colleges, Educational Change, Equal Education
Bjorn Harald Bangstein – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The growing number of U.S. engineering jobs signifies a need for more students to pursue engineering degrees. To increase access to engineering education, in 2015, Texas A&M University established Engineering Academies (EA) in cooperation with selected community colleges. The problem addressed in this study was a lack of knowledge about why…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Community Colleges, Knowledge Level, Academic Persistence
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