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Living-Learning Communities and Independent Higher Education. Innovations in Teaching and Learning. Research Brief 4
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Katz, Philip M. – Council of Independent Colleges, 2015
Living-learning communities combine curricular, co-curricular, and residential components of college life. They are a relatively new variation on the residential education that has been part of the undergraduate experience at America's independent colleges and universities for centuries. Research suggests that living-learning communities have a…
Descriptors: Private Colleges, Universities, College Students, Communities of Practice
Modeling the Relationship between Transportation-Related Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Hybrid-Online Courses at a Large Urban University
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Little, Matthew; Cordero, Eugene – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2014
Purpose: This paper aims to investigate the relationship between hybrid classes (where a per cent of the class meetings are online) and transportation-related CO[subscript 2] emissions at a commuter campus similar to San José State University (SJSU). Design/methodology/approach: A computer model was developed to calculate the number of trips to…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Transportation, Online Courses, Conventional Instruction
Engagement Insights: Survey Findings on the Quality of Undergraduate Education. Annual Results 2015
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National Survey of Student Engagement, 2015
In 2015, the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) collected responses from more than 315,000 first-year and senior students attending 585 bachelor's degree-granting colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. This report presents selected NSSE results from students at 541 U.S. institutions or subsets of that group where…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, National Surveys, Educational Quality, Student Characteristics
Postsecondary Alternatives: Meeting California's Educational Needs. A Feasibility Study. Second Technical Report: Inventory of Existing Postsecondary Alternatives.
Salner, Marcia B. – 1975
Described are current postsecondary educational programs in California that are designed primarily for: (1) over-25 adults with job and family responsibilities that preclude full-time residence degree study and (2) younger adults interested in a form of education that does not preclude wage earning and continuing involvement in their local…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Development, Community Services, Commuting Students
Solving Campus Parking Shortages: New Solutions for an Old Problem
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Millard-Ball, Adam; Siegman, Patrick; Tumlin, Jeffrey – Planning for Higher Education, 2004
Universities and colleges across the country are faced with growth in the campus population and the loss of surface parking lots for new buildings. The response of many institutions is to build new garages with the assumption that parking demand ratios will remain the same. Such an approach, however, can be extremely expensive--upwards of …
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Facilities, Motor Vehicles, Supply and Demand
Trends of Importance to Community Colleges.
California Community Colleges, Sacramento. Office of the Chancellor. – 1990
Prepared to assist the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges in the development of its "1990-91 Basic Agenda," this paper discusses several major statewide trends with important implications for California's community colleges. The paper offers data on population and enrollment growth, labor market changes requiring…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Commuting Students, Demography, Educational Assessment