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Bailey, Emma; Le Vin, Ashley; Miller, Louise; Price, Katherine; Sneddon, Sharon; Stapleton, Genevieve; Wolfe, Lissann – International Journal for Academic Development, 2022
As the higher education landscape changes, teaching-only faculty face increasing challenges to deliver evidence-based teaching through engaging with the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL). This transition from discipline expert to SoTL practitioner is often poorly supported and undertaken in isolation. We describe a faculty learning…
Descriptors: Expertise, Scholarship, Instruction, Learning
Davis, Marc R.; D'Amico, Mark M.; Dika, Sandra; Gifford, Eva N. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2022
In 2011, North Carolina implemented a tiered funding model for community colleges in an attempt to address program cost differentiation. In 2014, the funding model changed from a three-tiered model to a four-tiered model with additional funds for courses that address skills gaps and lead to higher-wage jobs. The purpose of this study was to…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Finance, College Enrollment, Funding Formulas
Finkel, Ed – Community College Journal, 2022
From free and low-cost dental clinics provided by dental hygienist students, to home building by students in construction programs, to more individualized service-learning across a wide array of courses, two-year schools are putting the "community" in community college by mixing academics and service in a panoply of creative ways. These…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Community College Students, Allied Health Personnel, Dentistry
Macario T. Benavides – ProQuest LLC, 2022
As higher education institutions in the United States face pressure to develop students' capacity to thrive in a globalized society (Niehaus et al., 2019), they have turned to international programs to address this need (LeCrom et al., 2015). In the last decade, U.S. study abroad participation has continued to rise, with short-term programs…
Descriptors: Community Education, Ethnography, Personal Narratives, Community Attitudes
Jared Burns – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This research study was conducted to determine if there was a difference in community college graduation rates based on aggregate faculty hires, aggregate faculty retention and community college size. The study employed a non-experimental quantitative research design with three independent variables (aggregate faculty new hires, aggregate faculty…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Graduation Rate, Teacher Persistence, Personnel Selection
Angel D. Mootispaw – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Online course persistence at community colleges is a serious issue, with students being between 3 and 15 percentage points more likely to withdraw than those taking the on-campus equivalent (Xu et al., 2019). Despite the continued growth in distance education, quality online course design is a concern throughout the literature. This quantitative,…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Community Colleges, Community College Students, Distance Education
Amanda Fox – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This research study examined student perceptions of advisement experiences with a primary role advisor in a centralized advising office. The intent was to explore the connection between academic advising and student connectedness to the institution. This study utilized Tinto's theory of student departure to provide an understanding of how student…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Public Colleges, Suburban Schools, Community Colleges
Carlotta Sherrice Walker – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Community colleges have become increasingly reliant on adjunct faculty members to deliver content to their students. The impact adjunct faculty members have on the success of community college students is profound. Researchers found students taught by part-time faculty had less favorable outcomes in terms of persistence, completion, and transfer.…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Faculty, Adjunct Faculty, Community College Students
Hao Loi – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This action research study investigated how a community college faculty member can improve completion rates in introductory computer science (CS1) courses. Some students think the CS1 course is challenging or non-interesting after taking the class midway and then dropping out. Others would fail the exams repeatedly. Since the exams are mostly…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Faculty, Community College Students, Academic Persistence
Jason Scappaticci – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Summer bridge programs are the second most common student support program in the United States. Though they vary in design, most are focused on supporting students who are at risk. Programs vary in terms of their curricular offerings as well. This study examined the ex post facto data from a summer bridge program at Manchester Community College in…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Transitional Programs, Program Effectiveness, Community Colleges
Janet Spitzig; Blake J. Renner – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2025
This study aimed to examine the relationship between student engagement and student retention of adult learners at community colleges. The relationship between student retention and the five Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE) student engagement benchmarks (active and collaborative learning, student effort, academic challenge,…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, School Holding Power, Community Colleges, Community College Students
Annique Petit – ProQuest LLC, 2024
College graduates are expected to acquire certain skill sets that are necessary and sought after by potential employers, as many industries in the United States continue to grow a global footprint. Employers also value good communication skills, and communication classes are a staple of most general education curricula, including those taught on…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, School Community Relationship, Action Research, Cultural Awareness
Bay, Jennifer L.; Yankura Swacha, Kathryn – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2020
This article presents an experiential model for community-engaged research that understands communities as living meshworks of embodied human beings, material circumstances, and affective environments. We first trace how community organizations and academics must increasingly respond to a push for hard data. Using an analysis of a national…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, School Community Relationship, Research, Data Collection
Berg, Alison C.; Bales, Diane W.; Mull, Casey D. – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2021
As universities strive to increase their rank in lists of the best institutions, higher education administrators are encouraging faculty to increase their scholarly work. Some faculty, including non-tenure track and/or outreach faculty, may be less prepared to respond to these demands. Due to a perceived shift in productivity requirements,…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Scholarship, Extension Education, College Faculty
Lively, Cece Lynn; Blevins, Brooke; Talbert, Sandra; Cooper, Sandi – Impacting Education: Journal on Transforming Professional Practice, 2021
Despite high attrition rates and abundant criticisms, online graduate programs continue to grow. This paper describes the efforts of one online doctoral program that focused on developing programmatic support structures to increase community. Utilizing a qualitative, case study research design, including surveys and semi structured interviews,…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Electronic Learning, Sense of Community, Doctoral Students