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Daniel Sparks; Sade Bonilla – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2024
More than half of states have implemented tuition-free college policies aimed at reducing attendance costs and incentivizing enrollment. We review the academic literature on the design features and impacts of these tuition-free policies, and we analyze an initiative Virginia implemented in 2021 called Get a Skill, Get a Job, Get Ahead (G3), which…
Descriptors: Student Reaction, Institutional Characteristics, Student Costs, Higher Education
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Daniel Sparks – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2024
In response to rising college tuition and student debt over the past three decades, some institutions, localities, and states have implemented a range of tuition-free promise programs to promote college access and success. Programs vary widely in their design features, including eligibility stipulations and award structure. I explore the growing…
Descriptors: Paying for College, Educational Policy, Eligibility, State Programs
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Maria Cormier; Richard Kazis; Nikki Edgecombe; Myci Atkinson – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2024
Get A Skill, Get A Job, Get Ahead (G3) is a state-funded last-dollar scholarship program for students enrolling in eligible associate degree, certificate, and noncredit occupational training programs in the Virginia Community College System (VCCS) in five high-demand fields: early childhood education, healthcare, information technology, public…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Full State Funding, Associate Degrees, Certification
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Bird, Kelli A.; Castleman, Benjamin L.; Fischer, Brett; Skinner, Benjamin T. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2022
Recent state policy efforts have focused on increasing attainment among adults with some college but no degree (SCND). Yet little is actually known about the SCND population. Using data from the Virginia Community College System (VCCS), we provide the first detailed profile on the academic, employment, and earnings trajectories of the SCND…
Descriptors: Adults, Educational Attainment, College Credits, Adult Education
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Bird, Kelli A.; Castleman, Benjamin L.; Song, Yifeng; Mabel, Zachary – Education Next, 2021
An estimated 1,400 colleges and universities nationwide have invested in predictive analytics technology to identify which students are at risk of failing courses or dropping out, with spending estimated in the hundreds of millions of dollars. How accurate and stable are those predictions? The authors put six predictive models to the test to gain…
Descriptors: Prediction, Models, Data Analysis, Community Colleges
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Lee, JoAnn S.; Mohindroo, Maya; Waithaka, Eric; Carlson, Ellen; Ahouissoussi, Jonea; Alhassani, Sara; Barrett, Kendall; Eber, Maxine; Lauber, McKenzie; Ihara, Emily S. – Journal of Social Work Education, 2023
The Social Work integrative Research Lab (SWiRL) provides opportunities for undergraduate students to engage meaningfully with research and allows graduate students to develop mentoring skills. We conducted a survey of alumni (N=20) to learn whether: a) alumni endorsed the benefits of participation and b) SWiRL experiences contributed to…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Counselor Training, Social Work, Professional Development
Equity Assistance Center Region II, Intercultural Development Research Association, 2020
Equitable education requires racially, and economically integrated schools staffed by skilled teachers who are adequately prepared to teach in diverse classrooms. This summary includes best practices reflecting the concerted efforts of communities across the country working to pursue integrated communities reflecting the rich diversity in the…
Descriptors: School Desegregation, Best Practices, Housing, Student Transportation
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Jia Lu – Journal of Geography, 2024
Practical training is important for community college students to gain high-impact real-world experience. This study aims to evaluate the impact of practical training of remote internships of community college and two-year associate degree students on spatiotemporal GIS learning during the pandemic. Anonymous pre- and post-internship surveys and…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Geography Instruction, Internship Programs, Distance Education
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Field, Sara A. – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2022
This poem was written as a final project for the author's Critical Perspectives in Education course at George Mason University in Fall of 2021. In addition to having students read critical works, Dr. Dodman, the professor, encouraged creative reflections and non-traditional reading responses. The author also engaged in an Extended Communal…
Descriptors: Poetry, Teacher Education Programs, College Faculty, Creativity
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Myers, Suzanne; Washburn, Jocelyn – Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 2022
This article presents findings from a study examining the impact of a virtual community of practice (VCoP) on professional development (PD) providers learning how to coach teachers using a virtual coaching model called VECTOR. The study was conducted during a time of widespread school closures amidst a global pandemic, but findings can inform the…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Coaching (Performance), Faculty Development, Communities of Practice
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Bird, Kelli A.; Castleman, Benjamin L.; Mabel, Zachary; Song, Yifeng – AERA Open, 2021
Colleges have increasingly turned to predictive analytics to target at-risk students for additional support. Most of the predictive analytic applications in higher education are proprietary, with private companies offering little transparency about their underlying models. We address this lack of transparency by systematically comparing two…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Identification, Two Year College Students, Community Colleges
Vetrovec, Logan; Massey, Anne; Santen, Sally A.; Edwards, Cherie; Kreutzer, Kathleen O'Kane; Harris, Kevin – Metropolitan Universities, 2022
Academic health centers (AHC) both contribute to and are influenced by the communities they serve. As part of a central commitment to improving human health, there is a need for AHCs to acknowledge their history related to race and racism, the resulting impact on current health disparities, and the disparate treatment of racial and minoritized…
Descriptors: Health Services, Medical Services, Medical Schools, Clinics
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Allison, Anne B.; York, Virginia V.; Hoefner, Donna M.; Clark, Melinda E.; Yost, Marlena C.; Vondrasek, Joanna R. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2022
This study assesses the impacts of the Science program at Piedmont Virginia Community College and its flagship capstone research experience, Supervised Study, through psychosocial perceptions associated with persistence in science and through a comparative analysis of subsequent science bachelor's degree attainment. Supervised Study involves…
Descriptors: Capstone Experiences, Community Colleges, Student Research, Science Education
Bickerstaff, Susan; Ran, Florence Xiaotao – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2020
This report describes findings from a study of the Engaging Adjunct Faculty in the Student Success Movement project, a two-year initiative led by Achieving the Dream to develop and implement strategies to support adjunct faculty in improving student outcomes. Work in the project--guided by design principles related to classroom activities,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Faculty, Adjunct Faculty, Part Time Faculty
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Billingsley, Janelle T.; Rivens, Ariana J.; Charity-Parker, Bianka M.; Chang, Stephanie H.; Garrett, Shedrick L.; Li, Tianjiao; Hurd, Noelle M. – Youth & Society, 2022
This mixed method study explored whether and how familial mentor support may have influenced the parent-adolescent relationship, and whether the impact of familial mentor support on the parent-adolescent relationship may have differed across adolescents' developmental stage. Findings from analyses of survey data from 106 Black adolescents…
Descriptors: Mentors, Parent Child Relationship, Adolescents, Developmental Stages
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