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Direct linkMcNair, Tia Brown, Ed.; Bonneville, Lucie, Ed. – Association of American Colleges and Universities, 2021
In 2019, twenty community colleges joined Strengthening Guided Pathways and Career Success by Ensuring Students Are Learning, a two-year project led by the American Association of Colleges and Universities. The project draws on the guided pathways framework to support institutions as they (1) map academic pathways and degree programs to student…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, College Role, Academic Degrees
Peer reviewedBaston, Michael A., Ed.; Bridglall, Beatrice L., Ed.; Nettles, Michael, Ed. – Emerald Publishing Limited, 2022
COVID-19 has exposed and exacerbated entrenched inequities spawned by the historical and structural reality of bigotry, prejudice, discrimination, and inequity in all forms, and at institutional and individual levels. It is perceived that higher education institutions also perpetuates these inequities, which is fuelled by prevailing…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Role, Role of Education, COVID-19
Boggs, George R., Ed.; Galizio, Lawrence A., Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2021
This is the first comprehensive and contemporary history of the largest and most diverse public system of higher education in the United States. Serving over 2 million students annually--approximately one-quarter of the nation's community college undergraduates--California's 116 community colleges play an indispensable role in career and transfer…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational History, Political Issues, Economic Factors
D'Amico, Mark M., Ed.; Lewis, Chance W., Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2019
Community colleges serve as the open door to higher education for marginalized, place bound, and/or financially challenged students and communities. One of the key ways marginalization occurs in diverse geographies is through access limitations: access to affordable postsecondary education, access to curricula that lead to viable professions,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Teacher Education Programs, Student Diversity, Diversity (Faculty)
Paulsen, Michael B., Ed. – Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, 2018
Published annually since 1985, the Handbook series provides a compendium of thorough and integrative literature reviews on a diverse array of topics of interest to the higher education scholarly and policy communities. Each chapter provides a comprehensive review of research findings on a selected topic, critiques the research literature in terms…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Research, Racial Bias, Social Justice
Lane, Jason E., Ed.; Johnstone, D. Bruce, Ed. – SUNY Press, 2013
This thought-provoking volume brings together scholars and system leaders to analyze some of the most pressing and complex issues now facing higher education systems and society. Higher Education Systems 3.0 focuses on the remaking of higher education coordination in an era of increased accountability, greater calls for productivity, and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Colleges, Campuses, Educational History
Niemi, Nancy S., Ed.; Weaver-Hightower, Marcus B., Ed. – John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2020
With this enlightening handbook, you can review the thinking of leading researchers on the current intersection of gender and higher education. "The Wiley Handbook of Gender Equity in Higher Education" provides an in-depth look at education's complicated relationships with, and in some cases inadequate fostering of, gender equity. The…
Descriptors: Sex Fairness, Equal Education, Higher Education, STEM Education
Paulsen, Michael B., Ed. – Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, 2016
Published annually since 1985, the Handbook series provides a compendium of thorough and integrative literature reviews on a diverse array of topics of interest to the higher education scholarly and policy communities. Each chapter provides a comprehensive review of research findings on a selected topic, critiques the research literature in terms…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Research, Educational Innovation, English Language Learners
Download full textBrown, David W., Ed.; Witte, Deborah, Ed. – Kettering Foundation, 2010
"Higher Education Exchange" publishes case studies, analyses, news, and ideas about efforts within higher education to develop more democratic societies. Contributors to this issue of the "Higher Education Exchange" examine whether institutions of higher learning are doing anything to increase the capacity of citizens to shape their future.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Democracy, School Community Relationship, Interviews
Brown, David W., Ed.; Witte, Deborah, Ed. – Kettering Foundation, 2009
This volume begins with an essay by Noelle McAfee, a contributor who is familiar to readers of Higher Education Exchange (HEX). She reiterates Kettering's president David Mathews' argument regarding the disconnect between higher education's sense of engagement and the public's sense of engagement, and suggests a way around the epistemological…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Liberal Arts, Journalism, Democracy
Bensimon, Estela Mara, Ed.; Malcom, Lindsey, Ed. – Stylus Publishing, LLC, 2012
How can it be that 50 years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, our institutions of higher education have still not found ways of reducing the higher education gaps for racial and ethnic groups? That is the question that informs and animates the Equity Scorecard model of organizational change. It shifts institutions' focus from what…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Race, Civil Rights, Institutional Research
Brown, David W., Ed.; Witte, Deborah, Ed. – Kettering Foundation, 2013
The Kettering Foundation's research has been focused on putting the public back into the public's business for more than thirty years. Some questions that have recently been useful to Kettering researchers as the foundation focuses on its work with institutional actors--especially higher education and its relationship with the public--have…
Descriptors: Higher Education, School Community Relationship, Democracy, Citizenship Education
Alfred, Mary V., Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2010
In a most timely volume addressing many of the connections among current fiscal and employment crises to adult education, Learning for Economic Self-Sufficiency highlights the problems and challenges that low-literate adults encounter in various environments. Moreover, this book presents strategies for addressing the chronic illiteracy among…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Physical Health, Illiteracy, Adult Basic Education
Jellison, Holly M., Ed. – 1981
These five essays share the theme that community education will become the primary focus in the continuing development of of the community college as a comprehensive, community-based institution. After Suzanne Fletcher's introduction to the monograph, Holly Jellison reviews the activities and summarizes the roundtable discussions of the Center for…
Descriptors: College Role, Community Colleges, Community Education, Community Services
Jellison, Holly M., Ed. – 1980
Essays in this collection examine the community college's role in promoting community-based education (CBE). James Gollattscheck outlines the defining characteristics of CBE. The essays by Robert Clausen and Steve Mills discuss cooperative efforts undertaken in Oregon and Colorado between community colleges and local school districts. Albert Green…
Descriptors: College Role, College School Cooperation, Community Colleges, Community Coordination
