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Download full textJenan Jondy; Mary ZumBrunnen – Metropolitan Universities, 2025
Inequities continue to weaken Michigan's capacity to respond quickly and effectively to crises, both natural and human-made. Minority and low-income populations, already disadvantaged, suffer the burden of the inequitable social, environmental, and economic injustices that have culminated in previously unacknowledged levels. Since 2011, the…
Descriptors: State Universities, Economic Development, Community Development, School Community Relationship
Colin Hill; Kayla Warner; Colleen Sommo – MDRC, 2025
Obtaining a degree from a community college is a strong pathway to numerous career opportunities for students from low-income backgrounds. Unfortunately, graduation rates from community colleges are often very low, so many students do not reap the benefits of a degree. With the goal of increasing graduation rates, three community colleges in…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Graduation Rate, Acceleration (Education), Models
Lena Novak; Claudia Escobar; Noor Amanullah; Makoto Toyoda; Rebekah O’Donoghue – MDRC, 2025
In the United States, many community college students--about 68 percent--enroll part-time, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. Unfortunately, graduation rates for part-time students are low. Only 19 percent of people who begin attending community college as part-time students graduate within six years, compared with 36…
Descriptors: Part Time Students, Community College Students, Educational Practices, Academic Persistence
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Most students who begin at a community college do not complete their desired credential. Many students fail to graduate due to various barriers other than their academic performance. To encourage previously successful non-completers to re-enroll and eventually graduate, a growing number of community colleges have implemented re-enrollment…
Descriptors: Community College Students, College Enrollment, Dropouts, Academic Persistence
Devisha Sasidevan; Sunil Santha; Tristan McCowan; Sowmya Balasubramaniam – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2025
Purpose: This article aims to examine a community initiative in Tamil Nadu, India, which uses heirloom seeds to promote climate resilience. The authors, involved in the initiative as action researchers, aim to illustrate how their experiences can be integrated into the curriculum and practice of "Adaptive Innovation", a model rooted in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Climate, Community Programs
Brie Chapa; Dan Marlin; Grant Sim; Nathan Werley; Alison Wineberg; Jake Wilson; Jenell Holstead, Contributor; Kiley Smith, Contributor; Keara Ryan, Contributor – Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, 2025
The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) has administered the federally-funded Nita M. Lowey 21st Century Community Learning Center (21st CCLC) grant program, also known as Title IV, Part B, of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) since 2002. The purpose of the program is to create community learning centers that provide students with…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Legislation, 21st Century Skills
Lynnette Young Overby; Diana Crum; Jill Grundstrom; Francine E. Ott; Melissa van Wijk – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2025
Postgraduate dance education students can develop a practice of arts-based, engaged scholarship by applying their disciplinary knowledge in collaboration with community partners to enact projects that benefit local, regional and/or global communities and their own scholarship. The present article analyses seven arts-based research projects…
Descriptors: Dance Education, Doctoral Students, Community Involvement, Seminars
Peter N. Knox; Bernice Garnett; Jess DeCarolis; Johannes Haensch – Educational Policy, 2025
This study highlights the Community Schools (CS) implementation experience of five rural Vermont schools. Principals and CS coordinators participating in a state-funded program aimed at CS establishment were interviewed to understand better their experience with implementing a school/district-wide policy and reform effort. Findings suggest several…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Community Schools, Principals, Rural Schools
Stephanie Petrov; Amanda Briggs; Shayne Spaulding – Urban Institute, 2025
In 2022, Corporation for a Skilled Workforce launched Advancing Community Equity and Upward Mobility (ACE-UP), a community of practice aimed at designing and elevating strategies for community colleges and their industry partners to develop more inclusive workplaces and bolster students' academic and career outcomes. This brief describes final…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Community Colleges, School Business Relationship, Program Effectiveness
California Community Colleges, Chancellor's Office, 2025
The California Community Colleges Homeless and Housing Insecurity Program was created to address the significant and growing number of students experiencing homelessness and housing insecurity. In response to the significant and still growing number of college students experiencing homelessness and housing insecurity in California, the state…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Homeless People, Intervention, Community College Students
Micah C. Longjohn – Community College Enterprise, 2025
Higher education increasingly relies on remedial coursework to bridge knowledge gaps among incoming students (Chen, 2016). Students assessed as below college level enroll in remediation to review secondary concepts, especially in mathematics (Kane et al., 2020). However, pressures over funding, student persistence, and completion rates exacerbate…
Descriptors: Remedial Instruction, Remedial Mathematics, College Faculty, Community Colleges
California Community Colleges, Chancellor's Office, 2025
The Student Equity and Achievement (SEA) Program was established during the 2018-19 legislative and budget cycle by the California State Legislature and Administration to consolidate funding for three interrelated categorical programs: the Basic Skills Initiative, the Student Equity Program, and the Student Success and Support Program. Pursuant to…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Academic Achievement, Community Colleges, Guided Pathways
Syka Iqbal; Farah Ahmed; Inayah Uddin; Katie Gilchrist; Norha Vera San Juan; Ana Motta; Qanita Fatima; Saeeda Arshad; Cecilia Vindrola-Padros – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2025
Background: People with learning disabilities face significant health inequalities, including lower life expectancy and greater physical and mental health challenges. Community engagement approaches are increasingly used in health and social care to address these disparities, yet little is known about their impact. This review explored community…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Community Involvement, Physical Health, Mental Health
Federick Ngo; Tatiana Melguizo – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2025
AB705 is a landmark higher education policy that has changed approaches to developmental/remedial education in the California Community College system. We study one district that implemented reforms by placing most students in transfer-level math/English courses and encouraging enrollment in support courses based on multiple measures of academic…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Remedial Instruction, Educational Change, College Mathematics
Cyrette Saunier; Susan Scrivener; Austin Slaughter; Noor Amanullah; Sukanya Barman; Cynthia Miller; Colleen Sommo; Erick Alonzo, Contributor; Osvaldo Avila, Contributor; Katie Beal, Contributor; Parker Cellura, Contributor; Ben Cohen, Contributor; Stanley Dai, Contributor; Hannah Dalporto, Contributor; Claudia Escobar, Contributor; Colin Hill, Contributor; Marco Lepe, Contributor; Tiffany Morton, Contributor; Rebekah O’Donoghue, Contributor; Vivianna Plancarte, Contributor; Alyssa Ratledge, Contributor; Elena Serna-Wallender, Contributor; Andrea Vasquez, Contributor; Rae Walker, Contributor; Michelle Ware, Contributor; Kayla Warner, Contributor; Melissa Wavelet, Contributor; Michael Weiss, Contributor; Diane Wren, Contributor – MDRC, 2025
Community colleges and broad-access universities (those with minimally selective admissions policies) provide an opportunity for students across the United States to attain postsecondary degrees and achieve economic mobility. However, graduation rates from such colleges are often low and there are many obstacles that can be difficult to…
Descriptors: Intervention, Academic Persistence, Program Development, Costs
