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Direct linkRita T. Karam; Marwa AlFakhri; Melanie A. Zaber; Elaine W. Leigh – RAND Corporation, 2025
Rural regions across the United States are facing enduring challenges in aligning postsecondary education with industry and workforce development to advance economic mobility. The Tristate Energy and Advanced Manufacturing (TEAM) Consortium--which spans 45 counties across Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia--brings together ten community…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Intervention, Rural Education, Labor Force Development
Download full textCyrette 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
Jamie Rebecca Smith – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Racism continues to persist in academia and institutions of higher learning play a central role in the actions needed to root it out. Leaders and employees at community colleges seek to do this by constructing initiatives, task forces, and learning communities that are dedicated to this cause. Little research has been conducted, however, on…
Descriptors: Racism, Community Colleges, Communities of Practice, College Faculty
Jerome Thomas Countee Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
America needs community colleges to be the most adaptive and responsive sector of the higher education system in order to remain competitive in a global marketplace. Employers need community college career technical education (CTE) programs to be responsive to labor force needs and produce competent middle-skilled workers. Policymakers need…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Vocational Education, Program Effectiveness, College Graduates
Mulhern, Christine; Hyde, Kelly; Morales, Sam; Anderson, Drew M.; Phillips, Brian; Huguet, Alice – RAND Corporation, 2023
Community colleges enroll a diverse set of students who often face challenges meeting their basic needs. This report describes the potential benefits and costs of one low-cost and relatively light-touch tool that colleges might use to increase students' access to basic needs assistance. The authors focus on the Findhelp platform, which is modeled…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Program Implementation, Program Costs, Program Effectiveness
Manasse, Mark; Rostworowski, Carolina – Journal of College Academic Support Programs, 2022
COVID-19 created unplanned, fully remote educational spaces. One California community college tutor training program augmented their tutor training practices to pivot to meet the needs of students now confronted with fully online learning. Using a mixed-methodology approach (e.g., survey and focus groups/individual interviews) over the course of…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Online Courses, Two Year College Students
Persad, Doodnath; Farrell, Permilla; Alonzo-Williams, Carla; Sargeant, Roxanne – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2023
Purpose: Unless higher education institutions ensure that first-rate academic programme offerings are supported with the provision of high-quality services, student satisfaction, retention, enrolment and ultimately, viability of the institutions will be adversely affected (Canic and McCarthy, 2000). The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Community Colleges, Educational Quality, Educational Assessment
Trimble, Brad – RP Group, 2022
In 2021, the Research and Planning Group for California Community Colleges (the RP Group) conducted a survey of institutional research, planning, and effectiveness (IRPE) offices in the California Community Colleges (CCC) system. The purpose of this survey was to: (1) Identify key research and planning priorities and activities of the IRPE…
Descriptors: Institutional Research, Community Colleges, Institutional Evaluation, Educational Planning
Kretz, Andrew – RP Group, 2020
In 2019, the Research and Planning Group for California Community Colleges (RP Group) conducted a survey of institutional research, planning, and effectiveness (IRPE) offices in the California Community College system. The purpose of this survey was to: (1) Identify key research and planning priorities and activities of the IRPE offices; (2)…
Descriptors: Institutional Research, Community Colleges, Institutional Evaluation, Educational Planning
Booze, David Mosely – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The California Community Colleges (CCC) is the largest system of higher education in the United States. In the past two decades, CCC has effectively shut hundreds of thousands of students out of higher education by increasing the cost of tuition. The drop in student enrollment resulted in fewer students meeting their educational goals within a…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Enrollment Management, Funding Formulas, Program Effectiveness
Sheppard, Rebecca S.; Kerrigan, Monica Reid – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 2018
The demands on and expectations of Institutional Research (IR) departments at colleges and universities have continued to expand over the years, yet there have been no studies on cost effective ways to develop and maintain the knowledge and skills needed by professionals in the field. Using a survey and social network analysis, this study explored…
Descriptors: Institutional Research, Communities of Practice, Social Networks, Professional Personnel
Butler-Paisley, William; Clemetsen, Bruce – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2019
Existing literature suggests that social connection with peers is beneficial for first-term college students. First-term community college students are less likely to experience social interactions than their counterparts at residential universities. However, recent attention has pointed to the classroom as the main place where social interaction…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Peer Relationship, Two Year College Students, Interaction
Myran, Steve Paul; Sylvester, Paul John – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2021
This study explored the impact of a seven-college consortium called "Credentials to Careers" (C2C), which was created to foster innovative programs to retrain unemployed and displaced workers for STEM, advanced manufacturing and health-care-related careers, on students' self-efficacy. Using the Generalized Self-Efficacy Scale, we…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Labor Force Development, Two Year College Students, Self Efficacy
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
Umoja Community: Insights and Feedback from Program Coordinators on Available Supports and Resources
Purnell-Mack, Rogéair – RP Group, 2018
The Research and Planning Group for California Community Colleges (RP Group) partnered with Umoja Community leadership to conduct a study that assesses statewide efforts to support Umoja program coordinators. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the technical assistance, resources, and trainings offered by the statewide…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, African American Students, Culturally Relevant Education
