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Cadenas, Germán A.; Cantú, Elizabeth Angélica; Spence, Tameka; Ruth, Alissa – Journal of Career Development, 2020
The United States faces shortages of professionals in science, technology, engineering, and math enterprises, which are complicated by underrepresented minorities facing systemic barriers to their educational and career success. Addressing this, we used social cognitive career theory and critical consciousness to create a program named Poder…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Social Cognition
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Bers, Trudy; Younger, Donna – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2014
This chapter will examine characteristics of first-year experience programs in community colleges, with specific attention to the extant research about their effectiveness, the ways in which research and program delivery can be integrated, and the unique challenges of delivering FYE programs and conducting research about them in community colleges.
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Freshmen, Student Experience, College Programs
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Taggart, Amanda; Crisp, Gloria – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2011
The purpose of this paper is to review and critique empirical work done, to date, specific to service learning experiences at the community college level. A review of the literature was conducted in order to examine the empirical work that has been developed regarding service learning, a form of experiential learning, at community colleges. The…
Descriptors: Campuses, Community Colleges, Service Learning, Synthesis
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Baldwin, Christopher; Bensimon, Estela Mara; Dowd, Alicia C.; Kleiman, Lisa – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2011
Student success is at the heart of both institutional effectiveness and the community college mission, yet measuring such success at community colleges is problematic. This article highlights three efforts to grapple with this problem--a multistate work group of system- and state-level policymakers to create an improved set of student success…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Institutional Evaluation, Measurement, Measurement Techniques
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Durdella, Nathan R. – Journal of Applied Research in the Community College, 2010
This study examines two community college instructional support programs to explore the effectiveness of an evaluation model--responsive evaluation theory--that may ease the tensions between a concern over programs' processes and reporting requirements for program outcomes. The study uses a comparative qualitative case study design and applies…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Problems, Academic Support Services, Hispanic American Students
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Ewell, Peter; Jenkins, Davis – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2008
This chapter examines lessons learned by states that are using student unit record (SUR) data to improve outcomes for community college students and recommends steps states can take to strengthen their use of SUR databases to benefit students and communities. (Contains 1 exhibit.)
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Databases, Student Records, Data
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Navarro, Diego James – Community College Journal, 2005
There is a growing population of young adults who are underserved by community colleges in the United States, students who are poorly prepared for college work and are at risk of poverty, social problems and failure to realize their full potential. Educational programs offered by community colleges represent this group's best hope of overcoming…
Descriptors: Social Problems, Community Colleges, Self Efficacy, Demonstration Programs