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Betsy Tessler; Kelsey Brown; Di Xu – MDRC, 2024
Across the country, as technology continues to advance rapidly, the labor market exhibits a growing need for workers who receive frequent and ongoing skill development. Employers in many fields struggle to find adequately trained workers to meet their needs. Community college noncredit career and technical education (CTE) programs are an important…
Descriptors: Noncredit Courses, Vocational Education, Community Colleges, Financial Support
Kenneth E. Barron; Chris S. Hulleman; Thomas A. Hartka; R. Bryce Inouye – Journal of Experimental Education, 2024
In this article, we describe a researcher-practitioner partnership (RPP) that used a networked improvement community (NIC) approach to translate social-psychological interventions into educational practices to enhance student motivation and learning. Specifically, we highlight one of our first collaborative projects to develop and scale up an…
Descriptors: Researchers, Middle School Teachers, Interpersonal Relationship, Networks
Elsa H.K. Spencer; Joanna R. Vondrasek – Inquiry: The Journal of the Virginia Community Colleges, 2024
Federal second chance Pell grants were recently made widely available to incarcerated students in the United States to fund undergraduate education. Piedmont Virginia Community College was a pilot site for this expansion and began full scale implementation of transfer-oriented associate degrees at three correctional centers in its service area.…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Education, Biology
Cynthia M. Finley – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Barriers to education and training can have a generational impact on socioeconomic status and economic development. Post-traditional students have been shown to experience a variety of barriers to education and family-sustaining employment. Social capital has been shown to help alleviate some of the barriers for students, resulting in stronger…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Program Evaluation, Access to Education, Barriers
Nicholas Vick; D. Patrick Saxon; Nara Martirosyan – Journal of College Academic Support Programs, 2018
The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate the perceptions of community college presidents regarding developmental education. A mixed method sampling technique combining convenience and purposeful sampling was used to identify five presidents in North Carolina and three presidents in Virginia to participate in the study. Results of…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Presidents, Developmental Studies Programs, Educational Improvement
Becca Hartman-Pickerill; Rebecca Russo – Journal of College and Character, 2024
Interfaith America's 2023 Landscape Analysis explores the purpose, range of desired outcomes, promising models, challenges, and opportunities of bridgebuilding efforts across U.S. higher education. This article articulates the importance of bridgebuilding for the sector and summarizes key findings from the Landscape Analysis. It highlights…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Practices, Partnerships in Education, Campuses
Bullington, Kim E.; Tomovic, Cynthia L.; Jovanovic, Vukica; Dean, Anthony W.; White-Levatich, Arianna; Landaeta, Rafael – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2021
Adult learners have different needs than traditional college-aged students. We present the first-year results of a targeted learning community for high-achieving, low-income engineering and engineering technology adult students. Students in this project received academic support and mentorship to prepare them for entering the engineering…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Sense of Community, Engineering Education, College Students
Grote, Dustin M.; Richardson, Amy J.; Glisson, Hannah E.; Knight, David B.; Lee, Walter C.; Watford, Bevlee A. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2022
Community college scholars and practitioners consistently seek ways to support vertical transfer from community colleges to four-year institutions. An emerging practice to streamline coursework transfer is the use of tailored, intrusive pre-transfer advising to increase information access for students still enrolled at the community college. In…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Transfer Students, Academic Advising, Access to Information
Robin Christine Daniel – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Higher education institutions world-wide were impacted by the unprecedented novel coronavirus (COVID-19) beginning in early 2020. COVID-19 caused a disruption in services to students and resulted in pivots of teaching, learning, and student support. Community colleges differ from four-year counterparts through varying student demographics, funding…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Community Colleges, Rural Schools
Glynis A. Taylor – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore how caregivers and teachers describe best practices to support the emotional, behavioral, and academic experiences of the active-duty dependent who relocate to a high school in Northern Virginia from another state or overseas school. Bowen's family system theory was the theoretical…
Descriptors: High School Students, Military Personnel, Caregiver Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes
Whitney Bowling – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Remedial courses have been part of the college landscape in the United States since at least the 1800s when nearly 250,000 students were placed into remedial courses. Traditionally, students who enrolled in remedial courses were placed into that course solely based on one test score. Students who enrolled in traditional remedial courses were more…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Community Colleges, Student Placement, Remedial Instruction
Sandy Baum; Jason Cohn – Urban Institute, 2023
Funding for community colleges varies significantly, even within the same state. Several factors account for these differences, including more generous funding for smaller institutions to compensate for their higher costs per student, unequal local funding from property tax revenues, and political forces. In theory, this variation could lead to…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Financial Support, African American Students, Hispanic American Students
Aimin Liao – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This action research investigated Chinese international students' motivational/demotivational factors and their perspectives on Virginia Tech's non-mandatory events. The theoretical framework guided the research questions, literature reviews, and data design collection/analysis process. The self-determination theory provided the primary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Asians, Foreign Students, College Students
Evmenova, Anya S.; Borup, Jered; Dabbagh, Nada – Teacher Educators' Journal, 2021
As universities moved to remote teaching environments in response to COVID-19 pandemic, many teacher educators were forced to make the switch without any professional development. This paper presents an example of how faculty at one large public university in Virginia were supported through this process. In Phase 1 of our response we rapidly…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Faculty Development, Web Based Instruction, Distance Education
Beer, Allison; Brown, Katie; Juszkiewicz, Jolanta – Association of Community College Trustees, 2021
Community colleges offer a variety of workforce-oriented programs intended to help students gain skills and knowledge for a specific career or occupation. Among these are short-term credentials, designed to teach students a specific skillset related to an occupation, often in response to local labor market needs. Types of short-term credentials…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Credentials, Program Length, Student Financial Aid