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Iris Palmer; Shalin Jyotishi – New America, 2023
Despite the growing demand and availability of non-degree workforce training, outcomes for these programs are mixed. For some, non-degree programs are a faster, more affordable pathway to a good job, and, more importantly, a career that offers economic security--they represent the future of education. But for others, non-degree programs are a…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Credentials, Work Experience Programs, Nontraditional Education
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Howard, Martine; Harrington, Christine – Impacting Education: Journal on Transforming Professional Practice, 2022
The "on-time" degree completion crisis within the community college system is alarming. Only 5% of students graduate in two years (Complete College America [CCA], n.d.-a). Many community college students are low-income and racially and ethnically minoritized, and their graduation rates are low (CCA, n.d.-a). Community colleges around the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Time to Degree, Achievement Gap
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Dennis S. Mitchell; Audrey Amrein-Beardsley – Community College Enterprise, 2024
The purpose of this study was to observe and measure the impact of a professional development course on community college participants' self-reported levels of data literacy and equity-mindedness, to ultimately improve upon institutional policies and procedures to help those involved use data in more equity-oriented ways. We used a mixed methods…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Self Efficacy, Information Literacy, Data Use
Iris Palmer; Shalin Jyotishi – New America, 2022
Community colleges play a critical role in helping people connect to careers in the United States. After the Great Recession, community colleges emerged as the workforce and economic development institution that could fill the gaps left by traditional higher education for shorter, non-degree career education while also meeting the needs of local…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Vocational Education, Nontraditional Education
Asera, Rose – RP Group, 2020
The Research and Planning Group for California Community Colleges (RP Group) launched Leading from the Middle (LFM) in 2013 to develop and support middle leaders in community colleges across California. Each year LFM produces an internal evaluation report that presents participants' perspectives about what they learned from their experience and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Middle Management, Leadership Training, Guided Pathways
Asera, Rose – RP Group, 2020
This is the executive summary for "Middle Leaders in College Redesign: Leading from the Middle 2019." The report focuses on the roles middle leaders play in Guided Pathways. This summary is organized by the three overarching outcomes of Leading from the Middle (LFM), moving from the broadest institutional level to the individual…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Middle Management, Leadership Training, Guided Pathways