ERIC Number: EJ1370266
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 14
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ISSN: ISSN-1066-8926
EISSN: EISSN-1521-0413
The Relationship between Faculty Diversity and Student Success in Public Community Colleges
Cross, James David; Carman, Carol A.
Community College Journal of Research and Practice, v46 n12 p855-868 2022
Community colleges serve the most diverse student populations in higher education yet have some of the lowest levels of faculty diversity in higher education. Retaining community college student cohorts through transfer/graduation is a goal, yet attaining this goal has been elusive, particularly for underrepresented minority (URM) community college students. Few studies have explored the impact of faculty diversity on the successful retention of URM community college students. This study used archival data for 120 public community colleges from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) to calculate a Diversity Score for each college and ranked them by their overall level of faculty racial/ethnic variance to quantify the relationship between faculty diversity and student graduation, transfer, and drop-out rates. The findings suggest that there is a significant strong positive relationship between graduation, transfer, and drop-out rates for URM students of all race/ethnic categories when there are increases in faculty diversity. Exposure to a diverse faculty produces different outcomes in URM students.
Descriptors: Correlation, Diversity (Faculty), College Faculty, Teacher Characteristics, Teacher Student Relationship, Two Year College Students, Academic Achievement, Minority Group Students, School Holding Power, Institutional Characteristics, Dropout Rate, Disproportionate Representation, Graduation, College Transfer Students, Race, Ethnicity
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; Two Year Colleges
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Language: English
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