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Direct linkDavid Michael Sears – ProQuest LLC, 2024
With community colleges struggling with the completion rates of their students, it is important to understand the social and academic integration of community college students and their relationships to retention and completion. Research focuses on the critical role of internal college actors such as faculty, staff, and students in these…
Descriptors: Scholarships, Donors, School Holding Power, Community College Students
Marianne Ruggles Niese – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to explore the experiences of community college students in recovery, including their experience with a Collegiate Recovery Program (CRP). Collegiate recovery programs have been on college campuses in the United States for decades, with the first CRP dating back to 1977 at Brown University…
Descriptors: College Programs, Rehabilitation Programs, Student Attitudes, Academic Support Services
Nicole Jeanette Wilson – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this case study is to explore the strategies and approaches success coaches use towards validating first-generation, low-income college student success. This case study was conducted at Terrace University (pseudonym), a public, four-year institution within the Midwest. Since 2008, Terrace University has sponsored Terrace Promise…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), College Programs, Transitional Programs, Educational Strategies
Beverly Brooks Thompson – ProQuest LLC, 2015
The primary purpose of this study was to investigate the impact participating in S.T.R.I.P.E.S., a leadership and extended orientation program, had on the philanthropic giving of recent alumni at a research university in the Southeastern United States. The dependent variable for this study was philanthropic giving to the institution during the…
Descriptors: School Orientation, Public Colleges, Graduates, Private Financial Support
DeLalla, John, Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Capitalism and education can appear like unlikely friends at first, yet for-profit educational ventures continue to grow in size and revenue year after year in the United States. How can the government-controlled (and partially funded) educational institutions capitalize upon the opportunity without modifying the mission and vision of the…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Continuing Education, Case Studies, Noncredit Courses
Hou, Harry – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This research study explores and compares the career and technical education programs offered in a US community college and the vocational/career and technology education programs offered in a comparable Chinese postsecondary institution. The study sought to find positive transferable characteristics of the career and technical education programs…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Vocational Education, College Programs, Global Approach
