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Aron, Isa; Hassenfeld, Ziva R. – Journal of Jewish Education, 2022
The use of technology in part-time Jewish schools during the pandemic and beyond has, with few exceptions, been limited to Zoom, a communications platform that works best for frontal teaching and small group discussion. This study focuses on two Jewish educators whose Technological Pedagogic Content Knowledge enables them to deploy a variety of…
Descriptors: Enrichment Activities, Part Time Students, Judaism, Religious Schools
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Cochrane, Debbie – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2015
Community colleges are vital to our country's future, enrolling 42% of the nation's undergraduates and awarding the majority of all associate degrees and undergraduate certificates. Yet, despite their key role, they are the only sector that is increasingly asked to do more with fewer resources. This article discusses the important role that…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Costs, College Role, Relevance (Education)
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Handel, Stephen J. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2009
When representatives from community colleges and selective four-year institutions gather, there is no greater flashpoint than the topic of part-time enrollment. This issue--that students coming from an institution comprising mostly part-time students should be enabled to transfer to selective four-year institutions in which full-time enrollment is…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Low Income Groups, Student Diversity, Higher Education
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Barr, Jim – Journal of Applied Research in the Community College, 2007
This study examines second-term and second-year persistence of 19,489 freshmen at American River College (ARC), a large, urban, public community college near Sacramento, California. Academic and non-academic characteristics are compared between first year dropouts and those students that enroll one year after the first fall term at ARC for two…
Descriptors: High School Graduates, Dropouts, Learning Strategies, Academic Persistence
Hansen, W. Lee; Reeves, Roxanne W. – Journal of Student Financial Aid, 1986
A large survey of postsecondary students in California was used to test the sensitivity of alternate definitions of the independent student population on the number and proportion of independent students, to trace the cost implications of these alternate definitions, and to offer conclusions about the effects of these definitional changes. (MLW)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age, College Students, Data Analysis
Cage, Mary Crystal – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1993
College enrollment trends include higher full-time enrollment at two-year colleges, lower part-time enrollment, increased black-college enrollments, increased Hispanic enrollment (but less than for other ethnic groups), higher minority enrollment at predominantly white colleges, continuing budget woes in California state institutions, and…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, College Freshmen, College Students, Comparative Analysis