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Direct linkFlournoy, Corey W. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this project was to conduct a gap analysis from the perspective of Black male students at a community college in the Los Angeles area to examine the knowledge, motivation, and organizational elements that interfere with their graduation and transfer rates. The analysis began by generating a list of possible or assumed interfering…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, African American Students, Student Attitudes
Spedding, Lindsey – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Nontraditional students bring to the classroom diversity in age, culture, experience, knowledge, and preparedness. The risk factors that circumstantially define nontraditional students outside the classroom result in transferrable challenges within the classroom. The purpose of this single descriptive case study was to explore and understand…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Nontraditional Students, Case Studies
Sanchez, Cheryl Lea – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The development of healthy relationships among the students, faculty, and staff at higher education institutions leads to the creation of a seamless, connected learning environment for the students (Blimling & Whitt, 1999; Kezar, Hirsch, & Burack, 2001; Kuh, Kinzie, Schuh, Whitt, & Associates, 2005; Pascarella & Terenzini, 2005).…
Descriptors: Student Personnel Workers, Administrator Attitudes, Two Year Colleges, Rural Schools
Porter, Catherine L. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Community colleges today are experiencing monumental shifts in their operating environments. Some of these changes are known, but many of them are not. They include shifts in curriculum, funding, and societal expectation to name a few. Through the constructs of high quality work environment and organizational fluidity theory, this research…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Change, Organizational Change, Holistic Approach
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Download full textPeña, Carlos C. – Journal of International Education and Leadership, 2013
The purpose of this study was to examine the complexities of successful attainment and achievement of 10 Mexican American males in a rural Southwest community college. This study strives to offer insights concerning the questions: (1) What behavioral patterns of current family, peers, and conditions in school have influenced the educational…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, First Generation College Students, Academic Achievement, Community Colleges
Ivey, Tracey – ProQuest LLC, 2009
American higher education is striving to create the appropriate academic environment in order to prepare students to be interculturally competent for the realities of the twenty first century, and curriculum internationalization is part of this process. The purpose of this study was to investigate the process by which the curriculum is becoming…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Global Approach, Global Education, Interpersonal Competence
