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Direct linkErin K. Davis – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Increasing student retention is one of the greatest challenges faced by community colleges. First-year community college students face a complex set of issues in grappling with their new academic roles and identities. Therefore, there is a need for effective retention efforts that support students during this time of transition. First-Year…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Community College Students, Academic Persistence, Student Adjustment
Michell Ivey – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this study is to examine the perceptions of adult learners in a first-year seminar course at Columbia State Community College, located in middle Tennessee, to determine if the content of the course has an impact on the learners' adjustment to college. With the statewide initiative to reach a goal of 55% of the state's population…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Adult Students, Student Experience, First Year Seminars
Justin Trevor Hunt – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this mixed methods study was to explore and understand the reasons why community college music majors choose to persist, leave the major, or leave college, and what effects a first-year seminar designed specifically for music majors might have on their intent to persist.A questionnaire was used to compare the likelihood of…
Descriptors: Music Education, Majors (Students), Academic Persistence, First Year Seminars
Download full textAlamuddin, Rayane; Bender, Melissa – Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, 2018
Drawing on a new, national survey of public institutions that serve two-year students funded by the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation and conducted by Ithaka S+R and Two Year First Year, this research brief describes the ways that these institutions do--and do not--support students during their first year of enrollment. It also highlights the extent to…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Two Year College Students, High Achievement, School Orientation
Mechur Karp, Melinda; Raufman, Julia; Efthimiou, Chris; Ritze, Nancy – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2015
Many community colleges offer a "student success" course--also known as College 101 or Introduction to College--as a means to help incoming students transition to college and become successful. The typical course is meant to provide key information and address important non-cognitive skills and behavioral expectations with the goal of…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, First Year Seminars, Outcomes of Education, Curriculum Development
Kelley, Zachary L. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
As access to higher education has continuously risen throughout the second half of the twentieth century, community college student success has not kept pace. Within this climate, institutions look to cost-effective initiatives and programs to encourage student success in order to produce more certificate and degree earners. While many first-year…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, First Year Seminars, Academic Persistence
