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Download full textColin 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
Direct linkRobin R. Donovan – ProQuest LLC, 2024
A practice that dates back centuries, apprenticeship is a workforce development model that has gained recent attention in the American higher education system. The researcher conducted a review of existing literature that included apprenticeships in higher education and other models of community college workforce development. Existing literature…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Urban Schools, Apprenticeships, Labor Force Development
Peer reviewedSeana Chaves; Valerie Lee; Sarah Morris; Ann Reinecke; Austin Tome – Learning Assistance Review, 2023
In response to the COVID-19 crisis, embedded tutoring became a popular model to address the need for additional student support in higher education. Four U.S. community colleges collaborated to develop a successful embedded tutoring model that provides a framework and definition for embedded tutoring and training for tutors and participating…
Descriptors: Tutoring, Models, Community Colleges, Training
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
Thiyaporn Kantathanawat; Anyamanee Ussarn; Mai Charoentham; Paitoon Pimdee – Educational Process: International Journal, 2025
Background/purpose: The increasing integration of digital technology in education underscores the need for instructional models that support personalized, skill-based, and problem-solving focused learning. While traditional pedagogies often fail to address these needs comprehensively, this study proposes that the Mastery Adaptive Problem-Solving…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Problem Solving, Mastery Learning
Edmunds, Julie A. – State Education Standard, 2023
Policymakers' solutions to the problem of inequitable access to postsecondary institutions often focus on the financial barriers students face. However, other barriers are just as significant. Students may face barriers in the logistical aspect of applying to college. They may not have the knowledge and skills they need to succeed in college…
Descriptors: High School Students, College Preparation, Dual Enrollment, Models
Marx, Christopher John – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Adult students comprise a significant percentage of community college enrollments. However, these students have consistently completed college programs at lower rates than traditional-aged students. Community college structures, including student advisement, often align primarily with the needs of traditional-aged students. This has resulted in a…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Community College Students, Academic Advising, Mentors
Radiah Blanton – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The University Center Model was designed to serve as an option for attainment of baccalaureate and master's degrees by making 4-year institutions accessible through partnerships with a community college. This model has been prevalent on select community college campus for almost 20 years, with little research to substantiate the effectiveness of…
Descriptors: Models, Universities, Educational Objectives, Success
Simmons, Kathy; Felty, Cris – College and University, 2020
This article highlights a two-year institution's efforts to deliver personalized guidance and direction to students, providing essential support resources in hope of facilitating meaningful connections that will lead to increased enrollment, persistence, retention, and three-year graduation rates. The project includes efforts by student services…
Descriptors: Student Centered Learning, School Orientation, Academic Advising, Two Year Colleges
Sarah L. Hoiland; JungHang Lee; Norberto Michel Hernández Valdés-Portela – Teachers College Record, 2024
Background/Context: The Holistic Oasis for Parents' Education (HOPE) Program is an on-campus summer program designed to serve the whole student with a three-dimensional support model. Low-income, Black, and Hispanic parents experienced some of the most egregious effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, which reflects the demographics of one in three…
Descriptors: Sense of Community, Parents, Community College Students, Minority Group Students
Bickerstaff, Susan; Raphael, Jacqueline; Cruz Zamora, Diana E.; Leong, Melinda – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2019
Lesson Study (LS) is a structured, collaborative professional development approach that gives instructors a framework for actively investigating how to improve student learning in their classrooms. Despite evidence of LS improving teacher practice and student learning in K-12 settings, there have been few documented examples of its use among…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, College Mathematics, Community Colleges, Communities of Practice
Tirol-Carmody, Kristina; Kardash, Nadia; Chang, Karin; Ecker-Lyster, Meghan – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2020
This paper discusses the key findings from a qualitative case study examining the implementation of an activity-based cost management model (ABC model) at a large community college. In a climate of fiscal uncertainty, the college adopted this model with the goal of improving budgetary decision-making. The paper examines faculty and administrators'…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Finance, Budgeting, Barriers
Blackwell, Charlotte E. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this mixed-methods research study was to determine the impact of mandatory developmental academic advising on the persistence, successful course completion, and grade point average of pre-nursing students at a large-sized urban community college within the North Carolina Community College System. With data obtained through student…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Nursing Students, Two Year College Students, Academic Persistence
Hatch, Deryl K.; Bohlig, E. Michael – Research in Higher Education, 2016
The definition and description of student success programs in the literature (e.g., orientation, first-year seminars, learning communities, etc.) suggest underlying programmatic similarities. Yet researchers to date typically depend on ambiguous labels to delimit studies, resulting in loosely related but separate research lines and few…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Students, Classification, First Year Seminars
Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2021
Investing in community colleges is a central part of the Biden administration's education agenda, with the goal of strengthening America's middle class and opening the benefits of education to all Americans. CCRC has conducted 25 years of research on how community colleges can more effectively educate students and set them up to successfully…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Success, Educational Change
