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Download full textHeather M. Hammitt – Online Submission, 2024
Many community colleges do not have a formal process in place to offer or support a structured gap year option for students who recently graduated from high school, thereby denying those students an educational option that has been recognized as beneficial to many learners. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore factors that…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community College Students, Stopouts, Undergraduate Students
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
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This paper shares the results of semi-structured interviews with 30 community college librarians who have instruction duties. The interviews explored these librarians' perceptions of students' information literacy (IL) strengths and weaknesses as well as their views of students' self-perceptions. Participants believe that students are confident in…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community College Students, Librarians, Librarian Attitudes
Sundblad, Michael B.; Dansereau, Diana R. – Community College Review, 2024
Objective: This study is a replication of Russ et al.'s (2002) work, which showed that students' credibility beliefs about and perceived learning from a male university instructor were negatively affected when he identified as gay. Because the primary professional responsibility of community college faculty is teaching, and student evaluations may…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Faculty, Self Disclosure (Individuals), Males
Jessie Sze Hui Tan; Viktor Wahadaniah; Hui Li Ng; Faith Ong; Ashish Stephen Peter; Yew Kong Tan; Robert G. Bringle – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2025
Service-learning (S-L) has gained recognition as a high-impact pedagogical practice, with electronic Service-Learning (eS-L) emerging as a model that blends online and in-person instruction with service experiences. While interest in eS-L is growing, large-scale studies on student outcomes remain limited, particularly research that examines design…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Service Learning, Citizen Participation, Student Attitudes
Jorge Burmicky; Roshaunda L. Breeden; Micara Lewis-Sessoms; Pamela L. Eddy; Sarah L. Rodriguez – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
The purpose of this article is to provide a blueprint to conduct equity case studies in rural community colleges. Informed by our field work experiences applying case study design and equity-minded frameworks, this blueprint involves four distinct steps: (1) identifying rural community colleges in North Carolina; (2) operationalizing equity in…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Rural Schools, Equal Education, Stakeholders
Jamie Rebecca Smith – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Racism continues to persist in academia and institutions of higher learning play a central role in the actions needed to root it out. Leaders and employees at community colleges seek to do this by constructing initiatives, task forces, and learning communities that are dedicated to this cause. Little research has been conducted, however, on…
Descriptors: Racism, Community Colleges, Communities of Practice, College Faculty
Eloho Ifinedo; Diane Burt – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2025
Purpose: Service-learning (SL) is a widely accepted pedagogy that can enrich the learning experience for students in higher education while they apply their skills in a meaningful community service. This research is part of a larger project that aimed to motivate educational achievement among youths living in a priority neighborhood through SL.…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Information Technology, Computer Science Education, Community Centers
Jorge Grajales-Díaz – Inquiry: The Journal of the Virginia Community Colleges, 2025
This study employed qualitative methods to explore how the "UVA in Valencia Summer Program 2019/2021" approached instructional practices (e.g., in-class and out-of-class immersive learning activities, homestays, pre-program services, including use of L2 and culture learning strategies) to identify those features of the program design…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Study Abroad, Teaching Methods, Program Design
Lazarowicz, Tony; McGill, Craig M. – NACADA Journal, 2022
This qualitative study explored what support community college transfer students relied upon while transitioning to a 4-year university. Investigators examined experiences of 12 full-time degree-seeking students who previously attended a community college. Data included a series of three individual interviews with participants and reflective…
Descriptors: Community College Students, College Transfer Students, Community Colleges, Universities
Ferrari-Bridgers, Franca – International Journal of Listening, 2023
While many tools exist to assess student content knowledge, there are few that assess whether students display the critical listening skills necessary to interpret the quality of a speaker's message at the college level. The following research provides preliminary evidence for the internal consistency and factor structure of a tool, the…
Descriptors: Factor Structure, Test Validity, Community College Students, Test Reliability
Audrey Rose Hyson; Chasity B. O'Malley; Kamie K. Stack; Megan C. Deutschman; Megan Bernier; Murray Jensen – HAPS Educator, 2023
While there has been a recent focus on developing programs to support educational research by community college anatomy and physiology instructors, there is not yet an established long-term community of practice (CoPs) in this particular area. Studies of long-term CoPs, particularly in STEM education, are few and far between. This study examines…
Descriptors: Physiology, Science Instruction, Communities of Practice, Anatomy
McNaughtan, Jon; Higgins, Raegan; Spott, Jessica; Smith, Dimitra – Community College Enterprise, 2022
This position paper discusses the existent research focused on STEM centers at colleges and universities, focusing on their critical role to support students from racially minoritized backgrounds. The objective of this work is to present a potential framework to recast the role of these institutional STEM centers at both community colleges and…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Science Teaching Centers, Community Colleges, School Holding Power
Christopher T. Arra – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2024
The study aimed to assess the effects of year in college on students' perceptions of the cooperative learning process. Ninety-six college students completed 5 open-ended questions that asked students about their preferences for cooperative learning activities. Forty-nine first-year students and 47 second-year students participated in the study. A…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Cooperative Learning, Student Attitudes, Preferences
Gerardo F. Barrio Jr. – Online Submission, 2025
This action research study investigated the academic integration and persistence of first-generation, second-year Latino students in a community college in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. The study employed a mixed-methods approach to investigate persistence and integration among first-generation Latinos. Using Tinto's theory of persistence, the…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Community Colleges, Academic Persistence, Suburban Schools
