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Direct linkCallahan, M. Kate; Chumney, Donalda – Teachers College Record, 2009
Background/Context: Twenty percent of first-year students in public 4-year institutions and 42% of first-year students in public 2-year institutions in the United States enroll in remedial courses. Yet despite widespread remediation across U.S. colleges and universities, there remains a great deal of uncertainty about how remedial courses develop…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Basic Writing, Research Universities, Community Colleges
Russell, H. Jill – ProQuest LLC, 2009
A qualitative, hermeneutic phenomenological study conducted through interviews with 20 non-traditional (NT) Hispanic/Latino female part-time community college students and located at an urban community college in southern New Jersey explored for factors of persistence and discontinuation. Six themes emerged. Theme 1: Institutional persistence…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Academic Persistence, Familiarity, College Environment
Walter, Nina – Impr Coll Univ Teaching, 1970
The teacher in the city junior college and the urban student need a close working relationship. (IR)
Descriptors: College Environment, Community Colleges, Faculty, Higher Education
Matthews, Aretha L. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of this study was to analyze the spring 2008 Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE) results from a community college located in Southeast Texas to determine what relationship student engagement had to student persistence and academic performance and if that relationship differed by race, ethnicity, or academic program.…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Two Year College Students, Ethnicity, Grade Point Average
Download full textDeJong, William – Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse and Violence Prevention, 2006
This publication is designed to guide presidents of community colleges and their administrative staff as they focus on alcohol and other drug (AOD) abuse prevention. The first section reviews the challenges facing community colleges in reducing student substance use and the strengths the colleges draw on in addressing it. The second section…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Presidents, Administrator Role, Prevention
Lawrence, Charla Nicole – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Postsecondary educational institutions of all types have seen increases in the number of enrollees diagnosed with ADHD. Despite such increases less in known about ADHD among college students because the majority of research has focused on children and adolescents. This qualitative study conducted in the tradition of phenomenology, explored the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Community Colleges, College Environment
Montgomery, Roger – Progressive Architecture, 1973
Foothill College owes its tremendous popularity to the fact that it neither fits into the tradition of the modern movement of architectural art, with its in-group language of heroic forms constructed in brute concrete, nor the more esoteric world that sees high art in commercial strip development and A & P parking lots. (Author)
Descriptors: Architectural Character, Building Design, College Buildings, College Environment
Peer reviewedChernow, Burt – Community and Junior College Journal, 1983
Describes the Housatonic Museum of Art at Housatonic Community College in terms of its origins; purposes; collection of 20th Century painting, sculpture, and graphics; contributions to the college environment; and safeguards of the art works. Discusses funding barriers to and benefits of replicating the community college museum concept elsewhere.…
Descriptors: Art Education, College Environment, Community Colleges, Museums
Petrides, Lisa A.; McClelland, Sara I. – Journal of Applied Research in the Community College, 2007
This study examines the impact of a new Decision-Support System (DSS) on decision making in a community college in California. It looks at how attitudes and behaviors about data and their use were impacted by the implementation of a new DSS. The study found that the decentralization of data, through the DSS, produced a shift in terms of an…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Decision Making, Data, Decision Support Systems
Mery, Pamela; Schiorring, Eva – Research and Planning Group for California Community Colleges (RP Group), 2008
Which factors promote transfer from community colleges to four-year colleges and universities? What can individuals learn about transfer from tracking cohorts of students? What can they learn from studying colleges that have a strong track record of transferring students? These questions are at the center of a study funded in 2007 by the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Transfer Rates (College), College Transfer Students, Transfer Policy
Peer reviewedPascarella, Ernest T.; Wolniak, Gregory C.; Pierson, Christopher T. – Research in Higher Education, 2003
Identified the institutional and college experience variables influencing end-of-first-year educational degree plans of community college students. Found that the average precollege degree plans at a community college had a significant effect on students' end-of-first-year degree plans. In the prediction of end-of-first-year degree plans, there…
Descriptors: College Environment, College Students, Community Colleges, Higher Education
Ludwig, Terry G. – 1975
Colby Community College has had a campus-wide Human Development Program in operation for two years. This document summarizes the experience of the Human Development Program in the areas of Human Development instruction, staff development, community development, and student development. Specific descriptions of desired classroom, organizational,…
Descriptors: College Environment, Community Colleges, Human Development, Models
Peer reviewedMiller, Kenneth A. – Journal of the American College Health Association, 1978
The four areas discussed are: traditional health program expectations; community college health programs; integrating student health services into the mainstream of college activities; and selling the health program. (MM)
Descriptors: College Environment, College Programs, Community Colleges, Health Programs
Macomb County Community College Found a Way to Protect Its Campus-and Its Budget-With Student Cadets
Bartch, Dale; Rubens, Richard – College and University Business, 1973
Descriptors: Budgets, College Environment, Community Colleges, Educational Finance
Richards, James M., Jr.; And Others – Journal of College Student Personnel, 1972
The study concludes that faculty and curriculum profiles are moderately consistent, are closely tied to psychological theory, are measured independently of student characteristics, are related in meaningful ways to other measures of the college environment, and appear to reveal differences in relative emphasis on various subject matter areas.…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Environment, College Faculty, Community Colleges
