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Carolyn A. Wiley – ProQuest LLC, 2020
As federal guidelines have increased reporting demands on all sectors of education (United States Department of Education [USDOE], 2015) and state reporting requirements have expanded as legislatures call for performance-based funding (National Conference of State Legislatures, 2015), the need for institutional research offices has become the norm…
Descriptors: Institutional Research, Organizational Change, Data, Data Use
Mariana Torres – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Retention, persistence, and academic achievement for first-generation students have become increasingly prevalent with increasing access to higher education. Beyond access, the most discernible challenge relates to their identity as a first-generation college student and the lack of mentorship from their parents in navigating the college…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Mentors, Educational Experience, Teacher Student Relationship
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Zachary J. Hyder; Gresham D. Collom; J. Patrick Biddix – Texas Education Review, 2024
We utilize a difference-in-difference design to examine the effect of adopting a statewide promise program on the enrollment of community college students across socio-economic status. Limited by a small sample size for treated units, we find inferential evidence that the adoption of a state-wide, last-dollar promise program for community colleges…
Descriptors: Low Income Students, Unemployment, Public Colleges, Community Colleges
Tina Ngo Bartel – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation examines the efficacy of a professional development program in developing data literate and culturally proficient community college instructors. Existing research suggests that there is a need for high-quality professional development in Cultural Proficiency and data literacy for community college instructors to make continuous…
Descriptors: Data, Digital Literacy, Professional Development, Community Colleges
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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
Council for Adult and Experiential Learning, 2021
Many postsecondary institutions already recognize that adults comprise a significant portion of their student body -- or they may be starting to recognize the potential for serving more adults as they face declining enrollments from their traditional student pipelines. These institutions realize that they should have programs and services in place…
Descriptors: Data Use, Adult Students, Adult Learning, Academic Achievement
Miller, Cynthia; Cohen, Benjamin; Yang, Edith; Pellegrino, Lauren – MDRC, 2020
College students have a better chance of succeeding in school when they receive high-quality advising. High-quality advising, when characterized by frequent communications between advisers and students, early outreach to students showing signs of academic or nonacademic struggles, and personalized guidance that addresses individual student needs,…
Descriptors: College Students, Academic Advising, Technology Uses in Education, Faculty Advisers
Ositelu, Monique O.; Ogundana, Ewaoluwa; Palmer, Iris – New America, 2022
Since the existing literature on the impact of early alert systems (EAS) focuses on four-year institutions, we lack widespread understanding of EAS effectiveness for community college students. In addition, very few studies evaluate racial equity implications for EAS, which makes it challenging for community college leaders to translate results to…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, At Risk Students, Racism
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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
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Polnariev, Barnard A.; Jaafar, Reem; Hendrix, Tonya; Morgan, Holly Porter; Khethavath, Praveen; Idrissi, Abderrazak Belkharraz – International Journal of Higher Education, 2017
LaGuardia Community College is an international leader recognized for developing and successfully implementing initiatives and educating underserved diverse students. LaGuardia's STEM students are holistically advised by a team of dedicated faculty and staff members from different departments and divisions. As an innovative approach to advisement,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, STEM Education, Academic Advising, Teamwork
Kim, Jeanette; Simon, Mia; Horenstein, Aaron; Webber, Althea J. – Grantee Submission, 2020
The City University of New York (CUNY) is the largest urban public university system in the United States with approximately 100,000 students enrolled in associate degree programs. Similar to trends nationwide, many associate degree students come to CUNY underprepared for college-level classes and are assigned to take remedial or developmental…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Change, Developmental Studies Programs, Urban Universities
Weissman, Evan; Cerna, Oscar; Cullinan, Dan – MDRC, 2019
The Aid Like A Paycheck student survey was designed to shed light on students' academic and financial attitudes, behaviors, and circumstances over the course of a semester. This supplement to MDRC's final report on Aid Like A Paycheck describes the survey, response rates, and responses to each survey item at three community college systems: two in…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Tables (Data), Student Employment, Time
Glancey, Kathleen – Council for Adult and Experiential Learning, 2018
The adult learner is often defined by age (25 years or older) as an easy way to distinguish this group from students who head to college straight out of high school. But age is insufficient as a defining factor. The growing popularity of other terms like nontraditional student--and more recently, terms like post-traditional student or today's…
Descriptors: Student School Relationship, Nontraditional Students, Data Use, Program Effectiveness
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Wilson, Dawna; Bower, Beverly L. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2016
Tarrant County College's Achieving the Dream transformation has not only changed the college but all who engaged in the initiative. In four years, through ATD TCC became a college with one purpose, one goal, and one focus--student success through data informed decision making. From TCC Chancellor Dr. Erma Johnson Hadley to campus administrators,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Change, Data, Decision Making
Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE), 2017
The Certification Data Exchange Project (CDEP) was launched in 2012 to provide a model for sharing industry-recognized credential attainment data. Increasingly, employers and education leaders are recognizing the value of industry credentials to verify the knowledge, skills and abilities that students bring to the workforce. As states take steps…
Descriptors: Industry, Outcomes of Education, Labor Force Development, Certification
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