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Direct linkLeanne Holt; Cara Cross; Tamika Worrell; Connie Henson – Australian Educational Researcher, 2024
Through yarning and storying led by Aboriginal researchers, this study explores the success factors for Indigenous PhD Graduates. Participants comprised 21 Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people who had completed their PhDs within the last 7 years. Our thematic analysis uncovered themes associated with participants' decision to enrol as a…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Foreign Countries, Doctoral Degrees, College Graduates
Download full textRP Group, 2025
As part of the ongoing assessment of AB 705, The RP Group's Multiple Measures Assessment Project (MMAP) regularly assesses the how this landmark legislation effects students access to and success in transfer-level English and math across the California Community Colleges. In addition to overall impact, the authors also explore the enrollment and…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Student Placement, Community Colleges, Community College Students
R. Bradley Johnson; James McGhee; Jason Robertson – New Directions for Student Services, 2024
The authors examine the unique and important role of small institutions in the landscape of higher education in the United States. Through an examination of student success, community engagement, and sense of belonging, the authors aim to provide a better understanding of the evolving dynamics in small institutions and the need for bold…
Descriptors: Small Colleges, Diversity (Institutional), Academic Achievement, School Community Relationship
Cyrette 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
Heriberto Hernandez – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The efficacy of the CTE curriculum and program delivery can be affected by both internal and external factors. In an effort for community colleges to improve graduation and retention rates, institutions are developing enrollment and retention strategies that involve scheduling options. The purpose of this causal-comparative quantitative study was…
Descriptors: School Schedules, Scheduling, Technical Education, Vocational Education
California Community Colleges, Chancellor's Office, 2025
Education Code section 79511 requires the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office to submit a report each year on the the Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Student Achievement Program (AANHPI SAP). The AANHPI SAP is in its second year of implementation with 50 colleges participating. Before the full implementation in the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Program Administration, Program Effectiveness, Resource Allocation
Ece Yilmaz; Sarah Deal; Kaitlin Newhouse; Audrey J. Jaeger – Belk Center for Community College Leadership and Research, 2025
This report presents key findings from the PACE Climate Survey (PACE Survey) conducted by 121 community colleges across 27 states between fall 2019 and spring 2024. It analyzes trends in key areas, including institutional structure, student focus, supervisory relationships, teamwork, racial climate, and student success. The PACE Survey includes…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Surveys, Institutional Characteristics, Teamwork
Fink, Angela; Mattson, Paul S.; Cahill, Michael J.; Frey, Regina F.; McDaniel, Mark A. – Teaching of Psychology, 2023
Background: Research suggests growth mindset interventions can support student achievement, particularly among students at risk of academic struggle, but it remains underspecified which at-risk populations will benefit from such interventions. Objectives: This study aimed to experimentally evaluate whether highly (vs. moderately or minimally)…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community College Students, Nontraditional Students, Introductory Courses
Jennifer Sramek – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Community colleges rely heavily on their adjunct faculty to provide instruction; however, institutions often fail to fully engage and support adjunct faculty in the work of student success. Although adjunct faculty represent approximately two thirds of all faculty at community colleges (American Association of University Professors [AAUP], 2018),…
Descriptors: Adjunct Faculty, Academic Achievement, Community Colleges, Teacher Attitudes
Michelle Koss – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Student success and campus safety are two key issues in higher education. Efforts to maximize both issues are the focus of campus administration. Behavioral Intervention Teams (BITs) are implemented as a dual mechanism to improve student success and campus safety. BITs increasingly are becoming best practice and an essential component in…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community College Students, Student Behavior, Behavior Modification
Monica W. Walker; Stacie A. Miller; Adrianne S. Washington – Teaching and Learning Excellence through Scholarship, 2023
For over 2 decades, the Learning Community Program has impacted students at the Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC), with its emphasis on critical thinking, community, belonging, and student success. Faculty teaching this high-impact practice (HIP) not only implement an integrated curriculum in 2 paired courses representing different…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Communities of Practice, College Programs, Critical Thinking
Emily Markovich Morris; Laura Nóra; Richaa Hoysala, Contributor; Max Lieblich, Contributor; Sophie Partington, Contributor; Rebecca Winthrop, Contributor – Center for Universal Education at The Brookings Institution, 2024
This report is the result of the participation of hundreds of students, families, school educators, and researchers who dedicated their time and energy to investigating the critical role that families and communities play in ensuring students and schools can flourish. It is a culmination of over two years of collaborative research and hundreds of…
Descriptors: Students, Teachers, Educational Researchers, Academic Achievement
Jessie Sze Hui Tan; Viktor Wahadaniah; Hui Li Ng; Faith Ong; Ashish Stephen Peter; Yew Kong Tan; Robert G. Bringle – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2025
Service-learning (S-L) has gained recognition as a high-impact pedagogical practice, with electronic Service-Learning (eS-L) emerging as a model that blends online and in-person instruction with service experiences. While interest in eS-L is growing, large-scale studies on student outcomes remain limited, particularly research that examines design…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Service Learning, Citizen Participation, Student Attitudes
Sunanda Datta Kushon – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Much research in the field of education has been conducted on strategies to address students' academic and socioemotional needs of students experiencing trauma. The problem addressed in this study was that when students do not receive support for their socioemotional and academic needs related to trauma, they can experience low levels of academic…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Student Needs, Social Development, Emotional Development
Michele M. Mahi – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study used an explanatory sequential mixed methods approach to compare student experience and academic performance in an asynchronous online community college course delivered in three formats: accelerated (5-week) cohort, accelerated (5-week) non-cohort, and non-accelerated (16-week) non-cohort. Quantitative results showed no significant…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Academic Achievement, Asynchronous Communication, Community Colleges
