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Bayraktar, Breana – Inquiry: The Journal of the Virginia Community Colleges, 2023
In the spring of 2021, the Community College System in which the author works was in the middle of a planned three-year pilot of math and English self-placement ("Direct Enrollment") procedures. Concerns about the significant English language learner (ELL) population at one institution led to the development of a corequisite support…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Community Colleges, Student Placement, Mathematics Education
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Finkel, Ed – Community College Journal, 2021
Community colleges hold a central piece in law enforcement training. Their curricula often based on mandates from state law enforcement boards. They had been gradually increasing their focus of these training programs on issues related to diversity, equity and racial profiling. This spotlight has led to changes (or potential changes) in areas like…
Descriptors: Police Education, Police Community Relationship, Educational Change, Community Colleges
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Graziella Pagliarulo McCarron; Cher Weixia Chen; Sarah Blanton; Gabriella Guerrieri; Rafaela Gonzalez Lucioni; Ellen Gurung; Anagha Sreevals; Jasmin Enciu – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2024
College student activists catalyze reform on campus and beyond--yet, we know little about how these students perceive mattering on campus. Given that mattering is linked to positive student outcomes, educator commitment to caring for student activists is critical. This work, grounded in semistructured interviews and a constructivist lens, explored…
Descriptors: College Students, Activism, Student Attitudes, College Faculty
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Sue Kimmel; Linda Bol; Diane Ryan; Monica Esqueda – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
A promising solution for reducing costs for students, especially textbook costs, is Open Educational Resources (OER). We explored community college faculty members' perceptions of using OER compared with publisher textbooks. In this comparative context, we investigated how OER impacted faculty, their instructional decisions, and their students as…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Faculty, Open Educational Resources, Textbooks
Kyle L. McCarrell – ProQuest LLC, 2021
For many open-enrolled higher education institutions, including community colleges, enrollment is dropping each semester creating significant financial challenges. While much research literature focuses on four-year colleges, little is known about the students who seek to enroll at community colleges. What is known is often evaluated using college…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Enrollment, College Choice, Community College Students
Keyanna Hawkins – ProQuest LLC, 2022
A qualitative descriptive key-case study focusing on the perceptions of women in leadership regarding organizational conflict with managers, subordinates, and peers was conducted. The study examined how women leaders deal with conflict in higher education settings. A dual concern theory (DCT) framework was employed to study women's perceptions of…
Descriptors: Leaders, Females, Higher Education, Conflict Resolution
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
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Laura A. Lukes; Sophia Abbot; Lindsay Wheeler; Dayna Henry; Liesl Baum; Kim Case; Melissa Wells; Edward J. Brantmeier – To Improve the Academy, 2024
As centers for teaching and learning increasingly offer support and leadership for the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) at their institutions, educational developers need better tools to plan their SoTL programming. This article shares the work of a regional network of educational developers across six institutions in Virginia, who…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Educational Planning, Educational Development, Scholarship
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Katharine Meyer; Kelli Bird; Benjamin Castleman – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2021
Background/Context: Postsecondary education plays a central role in income and wealth mobility (Chetty et al., 2017) and in buffering individuals from the negative effects of economic downturns (see recent evidence from BLS, 2019; BLS, 2020). Much of the policy and programmatic focus around college completion has centered on increasing the share…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community College Students, Credentials, Employment Qualifications
Jessica Grant DiVenuti Whitten – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Great Expectations is a Virginia Community College System program for youth who were in foster care after the age of 13. Foster youth enter college with multiple disadvantages, including being less academically prepared compared to their peers and often lacking social support for their education. A program evaluation was conducted at a specific…
Descriptors: Foster Care, Community Colleges, Program Implementation, Fidelity
Schwartz, Robert B., Ed.; Lipson, Rachel, Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2023
In "America's Hidden Economic Engines," editors Robert B. Schwartz and Rachel Lipson spotlight community and technical colleges as institutions uniquely equipped to foster more equitable economic growth across America's regions. As Schwartz and Lipson show, these colleges are the best-placed institutions to reverse the decades-long rise…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Community Colleges, Technical Institutes, Educational Innovation
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J. OShaughnessy – PRIMUS, 2024
The Mathematical Sciences Department at Shenandoah University focused on increasing the participation of women in the mathematics program by fostering a welcoming learning community and promoting double majors. Data from the past decade is presented. During this time, the program saw an increase in women undergraduate mathematics majors from 11%…
Descriptors: Females, Mathematics Education, Communities of Practice, Majors (Students)
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Joy Myers; Virginia Massaro; Meredith Pollard; Katie Shifflett; Lori Killough; Mark Miller – Teacher Educators' Journal, 2024
This paper outlines how four community colleges, and a large public university, collaborated to support over 80 paraprofessionals who sought to finish their bachelor's degree and earn licensure. Funding from a statewide "Grow Your Own" initiative allowed the teacher educators at the community colleges and university to put in place…
Descriptors: Institutional Cooperation, Community Colleges, Public Colleges, Paraprofessional School Personnel
Pierce, Dennis – Community College Journal, 2023
Spurred on in part by the labor shortages caused the pandemic, a growing number of employers are eliminating their degree requirements in favor of a skills-based approach to hiring. "Skills-based hiring" focuses on the actual skills and qualifications someone brings to the job instead of just the degree they've earned. For job seekers,…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Personnel Selection, Community Colleges, Value Judgment
Tambra Lee Riggs-Gutierrez – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The relationship between spelling achievement and academic achievement in community college students was investigated in this quantitative study. The research questions focused on whether a brief (under 15 minutes) spelling screening assessment may or may not predict student academic achievement of course grade points earned in an entry-level…
Descriptors: Community College Students, College Freshmen, College English, Spelling
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