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Renee Bothwell – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Although academic success among diverse community college students requires effective reading skills, providing support for struggling readers is becoming increasingly more difficult. The problem addressed in this quantitative study was that due to Assembly Bill 705, prohibiting colleges from offering remedial courses without data to substantiate…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Socioeconomic Status, Reading Strategies, Course Content
Xueli Wang; Nicole Contreras-García; Kelly Wickersham – Teachers College Record, 2024
As colleges and universities continue to navigate the longer-term impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, a wealth of knowledge and insights exists within many community colleges to inform how to best prepare students for the fast-changing demands of learning, work, and life. Using a strengths-based approach and interviews with students from three large…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Pandemics, COVID-19, Community Colleges
Flavio Medina-Martin – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The goal of this action research was to bring awareness of the first-generation community college identity and acknowledge that this identity has many layers. It is important community colleges across the state use the information provided in this action research to be well-informed on how to better support first-generation students. This…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Community College Students, Academic Achievement, Self Concept
Gokce Kasikci – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This cross-sectional study examined if there was a positive correlation between students' critical consciousness (CC) levels and their entrepreneurial self-efficacy. The study was conducted via a survey that had four parts, including the Critical Consciousness Inventory (CCI), the Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy Survey, open classroom (OC)…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community College Students, Entrepreneurship, Classroom Environment
Yi Wang – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This three-article format dissertation presents a comprehensive examination of the 2017 Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE), focusing on its measurement properties across diverse community college student populations. Study 1 centered on the validity of the internal structure of CCSSE. Exploratory and confirmatory factor…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Learner Engagement, Success, Student Surveys
Stacy A. Teeters – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Community colleges play a vital role in providing access to higher educational opportunities for their communities. College completion rates for community colleges, however, have been historically low and few students graduate within a two-year timeframe. Disaggregating these data also reveals significant equity gaps in these outcomes for many…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community College Students, Guided Pathways, Leadership Role
Kelsey Behringer; Devyn Maguire – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2024
This article dives into the reality of how, since 2023, generative artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as an inescapable force in education and highlights the work of community college faculty in use of AI in teaching and learning. ChatGPT is an example of a relatively new and rapidly evolving aspect of AI research, the large language model.…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Technology Uses in Education, Opportunities, College Faculty
Schanker, Jennifer Ballard; Orians, Erica Lee – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2023
This chapter reflects on how the Michigan Center for Student Success (MCSS) has leveraged its position within a membership organization for community college presidents and trustees to engage in statewide student success efforts in a state with a unique higher education governance structure. With no formal higher education governing body to set…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community College Students, College Presidents, Trustees
Pierce, Dennis – Community College Journal, 2023
As community colleges create or enhance their online learning programs, campus leaders must find ways to make these experiences equitable for all students, so that everyone has a fair chance at success. Colleges are using a wide array of innovative strategies to do this. These methods include designing online courses with inclusion in mind,…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Electronic Learning, School Orientation, Learning Management Systems
Everrett A. Smith; Michael T. Miller – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2023
Urban community colleges have been studied primarily from a case study perspective, often highlighted by doctoral students conducting research at their institutions. Little of this scholarship, however, has been translated into the base of literature, as less than 5% of the citations in the largest search engines are focused on urban community…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Community Colleges, Definitions, Institutional Mission
Veloria Jean Nanze – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The decrease in the number of people entering the accounting field raises a concern in both the higher education and professional industry. Only 36 percent of eighth graders possess adequate reading comprehensions skills and most do not improve before they enter college. Thirty-three percent of students entering community colleges have inadequate…
Descriptors: Accounting, Reading Comprehension, Nontraditional Students, Community College Students
Heriberto Hernandez – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The efficacy of the CTE curriculum and program delivery can be affected by both internal and external factors. In an effort for community colleges to improve graduation and retention rates, institutions are developing enrollment and retention strategies that involve scheduling options. The purpose of this causal-comparative quantitative study was…
Descriptors: School Schedules, Scheduling, Technical Education, Vocational Education
Sade Burrell – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Foster youth graduate from college at lower rates than their nonfoster youth peers. Only 10% of foster youth graduate with an associate degree, and less than 3% graduate with a bachelor's degree (Courtney et al., 2011), and there is a significant achievement gap between foster youth and nonfoster youth students (Emerson & Bassett, 2010; Hussar…
Descriptors: Foster Care, Community College Students, Leaders, Youth Programs
Cassidy Ladd-Minx – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study analyzed the impacts of participation in short-term study abroad programs at Oklahoma community colleges through a quantitative research design. Student retention and degree completion are concerns for all types of higher education institutions, but U.S. community colleges experience an even greater struggle to retain students from…
Descriptors: School Holding Power, Educational Attainment, Study Abroad, Program Effectiveness
Courtney Miller – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This is a qualitative study that explores how successful supplemental mathematics instructors prepare their students for on-level mathematics, that is taken as a corequisite, at a rural Midwestern community college. Using the Zone of Proximal Development with educational scaffolding as a theoretical framework, this study considers how scaffolding…
Descriptors: Supplementary Education, Mathematics Education, Community College Students, Mathematics Teachers