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Kisker, Carrie B. – Harvard Education Press, 2021
In this book, Carrie B. Kisker illustrates how community colleges can utilize design thinking to identify and evaluate entrepreneurial opportunities, and experiment with the internal changes necessary to optimize outcomes for stakeholders. Kisker outlines a process whereby college leaders can empower faculty and staff to think creatively about how…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Community Colleges, Institutional Autonomy, Design
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Rizk, Ayman – Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education, 2019
This paper discusses participation in the pre-university education sector by reviewing three stakeholders: Local communities, the Boards of Trustees (BOTs) and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), their contributions to the sector, and their main challenges that prevent them from realizing more significant impacts from the perspectives of…
Descriptors: Trustees, Nongovernmental Organizations, Barriers, Administrator Attitudes
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Kniffin, Lori E.; Patterson, Ryan M. – Journal of Leadership Education, 2019
The challenges of the 21st century, post-industrial society are increasingly complex. They will not be solved by the actions of individual, "heroic" leaders; instead, they require the participation of diverse stakeholders in order to make progress. Through a discussion of the evolution of leadership theory, we demonstrate that theories…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, United States History, Community Programs, Community Leaders
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Howard, Leigh Anne – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2019
This article examines the intersection of critical pedagogy, service-learning, and interactive performance epistemology to describe the impact performance events and processes have on student learning. Specifically, this research extends Jill Dolan's concept of utopian performance and illustrates the potential of performance not only to generate a…
Descriptors: Performance, Instruction, Community Education, Critical Theory
Adam W. Jenkins – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The research described in this paper examines the role of sense of classroom community, intrinsic motivation, and academic integration on academic achievement (using persistence and course grade as the dependent variable) for community college students in online courses. A total of 72 students enrolled in online community college courses…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Community College Students, Sense of Community, Student Motivation
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Qaqish, Olgha; Grant, Christine S.; Bowles, Tuere – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2020
Although many Black male students begin their collegiate experience at community colleges, a greater understanding of their four-year transfer experience is needed. This qualitative narrative study critically explores pathways of Black male engineering students who transferred from community colleges to four-year research-extensive institutions.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, African American Students, Males, College Transfer Students
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García-Guerrero, Miguel; Lewenstein, Bruce V. – International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 2020
The main goal for Science Recreation Workshops (SRWs) is to build communities that create meaningful experiences, while participants engage with science in a practical manner. This triggers processes where acting and knowing go hand-in-hand to involve each person as a whole. This requires physical, intellectual and emotional interaction to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Workshops, Science Instruction, Experiential Learning
Rudolph, Nathanael, Ed.; Selvi, Ali Fuad, Ed.; Yazan, Bedrettin, Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2020
This book addresses two critical calls pertaining to language education. Firstly, for attention to be paid to the transdisciplinary nature and complexity of learner identity and interaction in the classroom and secondly, for the need to attend to conceptualizations of and approaches to manifestations of (in)equity in the sociohistorical contexts…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Interdisciplinary Approach
Kelly M. Hallas – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The purpose of this study was to examine if community college students in differing learning communities had different perceptions of their career and academic needs and whether students in different learning communities perceived their career and academic advisor as meeting these needs (i.e. are they satisfied with their advising). In addition,…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Student Needs, Career Counseling, Academic Advising
Luci-Jo DiMaggio – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Which programmatic principles of community engagement have a higher potential to irritate the beliefs that college students hold regarding their own power, privilege, understanding of social justice? This study takes a qualitative approach to the exploration of three groups of students representing curricular community engagement, co-curricular…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, College Students, Interpersonal Relationship, Social Justice
Patrick Denison-Uylesses Davis Sr. – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The purpose of this quantitative, comparative study was to determine the relationship between retention and academic success of students who participated in a College to Career Navigation exploration course and students who did not participate in the course at a rural, community college serving a 14-county area in the Southeast U. S. Archival data…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community College Students, Rural Areas, Academic Achievement
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Sprague Martinez, Linda; Pufall Jones, Elizabeth; Connolly, Nico – Journal of School Health, 2020
Background: The benefits of youth engagement are well documented. In this paper, we examine youth engagement in America's Promise Alliance's Every School Healthy initiative, a part of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's "Together for Healthy and Successful Schools Initiative (THSS)." Methods: Six community acceleration sites were…
Descriptors: Youth, Participation, Well Being, School Community Programs
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Yeh, Theresa Ling; Wetzstein, Lia – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2020
This chapter builds upon past research on community colleges and four-year baccalaureate degree-granting institutions' efforts to improve transfer. We present a framework that describes multiple types of collaborative relationships between institutions and share strategies for practitioners to develop partnerships.
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Universities, Intercollegiate Cooperation, Transfer Programs
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Maxwell, Nan; Gallagher, Sean – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2020
This chapter proposes a glossary of terms related to the market for new credentials, based on established and emerging consensus definitions.
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Employment Qualifications, Credentials, Definitions
Garmong, Gale E.; Calhoun, Bridget C.; Colbert, Alison; Grigsby, Victor J.; Mann, Jessica; Nagy, Annie; Namey, Brittani; Parish, Mary J.; Elliott, Jennifer Padden – Metropolitan Universities, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately impacted people of color, underscoring the importance of equity in the public health response. The Duquesne University Center for Integrative Health (DUCIH) is a university-wide center focused on training future practitioners and improving health equity in the Pittsburgh region. DUCIH's initial pandemic…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Churches, At Risk Persons
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