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Direct linkDeLoach, Cara; Soliz, Adela; Mesa, Hidahis – Community College Review, 2023
Objective: This article analyzes the implementation of two state grant programs in Tennessee aimed at improving the quality of in-demand postsecondary career and technical education (CTE) programming at community and technical colleges. We use insights from our findings to propose a conceptual framework for understanding how external funding can…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Technical Institutes, Capacity Building, State Aid
Download full textRubin, Beno; Kosloski, Michael F.; Loya, Roberto – Journal of Research in Technical Careers, 2021
The focus of this study was to develop standards that can be used for establishing and assessing high-quality postsecondary trade and industrial programs. A four-round Delphi technique was used to generate consensus regarding program standards. The panel of experts, comprised of postsecondary administrators of trade and industrial programs, was…
Descriptors: Trade and Industrial Education, Postsecondary Education, Standards, College Programs
Stanley Dai; Kayla Warner; Colleen Sommo; Emily Brennan, Contributor; Colin Hill, Contributor; Christine Johnston, Contributor; Rebekah O’Donoghue, Contributor; Michael Weiss, Contributor – MDRC, 2025
In community colleges in the United States, graduation rates remain frustratingly low. Students face many challenges, including the financial costs of attending college; the demands of school, work, and family; complex institutional systems; underfunded student support services; and insufficient preparation for college-level work. To address these…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Community Colleges, Graduation Rate, Paying for College
Wind, Steven; Lahti, Michel; Hollis, Robin B.; Brown, Kendelle; Wurster, C. J.; Ferguson, Kristin M. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2022
Opportunity youth (OY; i.e., youth ages 16--24 who are neither working nor in school) are a population who is difficult to engage and retain in educational programs, particularly in community college career and technical education (CTE) programs. OY are an important population to community colleges, as CTE programs culminating in…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Youth Programs, Program Development, Program Implementation
Hyun-Sook Kang; LaTanya Kurney – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
This qualitative case study examines, through an educational equity lens, the motivation, challenges, and assessment associated with international program development as appraised by the faculty and administrators in a district of multiple community colleges. To this end, semi-structured interviews were conducted with four faculty members and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Faculty, Study Abroad, Overseas Employment
Nicole Contreras-García – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2025
This study examines formerly incarcerated student programming from practitioner perspectives at California community colleges. The following research questions guide the study: 1) How has the pandemic and concurrent sociopolitical contexts influence the way staff, faculty, and administrators approach their work? 2) How do practitioners describe…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community College Students, Criminals, Correctional Rehabilitation
Elif Yu¨cel – Journal Committed to Social Change on Race and Ethnicity, 2022
This study uses Critical Discourse Analysis through a Critical Race Theory lens to analyze grant applications of community colleges that applied for funding to build or support programs for justice-impacted students. I analyze how colleges problem-frame the need for their program, finding that 'colleges' use of race-evasive and ahistorical…
Descriptors: Justice, Community Colleges, Grants, Program Proposals
Esquibel, Joseph; Rook, Deborah L.; LoRe, Sondra M.; Starnes, John H.; Miller, Jillian M.; Buntz, Jennifer G.; Hugo, Alys; Nieuwsma, Christianne B.; Seitz, Heather; Bissell, Ahrash; Gross, Louis; Kiser, Stacey; Lenhart, Suzanne; Mills, Michael A.; Neuhauser, Claudia; Corriette, Irene; Prescott, Sarah; Jenkins, Kristin P.; Karpakakunjaram, Vedham – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2023
Mastery of quantitative skills is increasingly critical for student success in life sciences, but few curricula adequately incorporate quantitative skills. Quantitative Biology at Community Colleges (QB@CC) is designed to address this need by building a grassroots consortium of community college faculty to (1) engage in interdisciplinary…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Instruction, College Science, Community Colleges
Biniam Tesfamariam; Charlotte C. Gullick; Wendy Maragh Taylor; Christopher Bjork; Elizabeth H. Bradley – Community College Review, 2025
Objective: Although most community college students intend to transfer to a 4-year college, few ultimately do. We sought to assess how student experiences of the Exploring Transfer (ET) program influenced transfer rates. The ET program was offered by a private, 4-year liberal arts college. Methods: We used data from a cross-sectional survey of…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community College Students, Transfer of Training, Transfer Policy
Meyer, Rika; Sohani, Madhura; Alvares, Stacy M.; Hunt, Katharine; Sciabarra, Christina; Gapinskim, Jacqueline Goeres – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2023
Undergraduate research experiences have been widely demonstrated as a beneficial and essential component of the college experience. However, many community colleges face barriers and lack of support in implementing such research programs, which means a significant number of community college students miss out on these impactful experiences.…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Program Effectiveness, Community Colleges, Academic Aspiration
Asfaw, Abraham; Blais, Alexandre; Brown, Kenneth R.; Candelaria, Jonathan; Cantwell, Christopher; Carr, Lincoln D.; Combes, Joshua; Debroy, Dripto M.; Donohue, John M.; Economou, Sophia E.; Edwards, Emily; Fox, Michael F. J.; Girvin, Steven M.; Ho, Alan; Hurst, Hilary M.; Jacob, Zubin; Johnson, Blake R.; Johnston-Halperin, Ezekiel; Joynt, Robert; Kapit, Eliot; Klein-Seetharaman, Judith; Laforest, Martin; Lewandowski, H. J.; Lynn, Theresa W.; McRae, Corey Rae H.; Merzbacher, Celia; Michalakis, Spyridon; Narang, Prineha; Oliver, William D.; Palsberg, Jens; Pappas, David P.; Raymer, Michael G.; Reilly, David J.; Saffman, Mark; Searles, Thomas A.; Shapiro, Jeffrey H.; Singh, Chandralekha – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2022
Contribution: A roadmap is provided for building a quantum engineering education program to satisfy U.S. national and international workforce needs. Background: The rapidly growing quantum information science and engineering (QISE) industry will require both quantum-aware and quantum-proficient engineers at the bachelor's level. Research Question:…
Descriptors: Program Development, Engineering Education, Labor Needs, Quantum Mechanics
Stevenson, Cari; Le Buhn, Michael – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2020
Faculty, administration, and student veterans at a small midwestern community college collaborated to develop a Veterans Resource Center, a physical space in which veterans can congregate to build camaraderie and find resources specific to their needs as veterans. A needs analysis was first conducted to prioritize the needs of the student veteran…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Veterans, Veterans Education
Grepon, Benzar Glen S.; Martinez, Aldwin Lester M. – Online Submission, 2021
Purpose: The study aims to design and develop a virtual structural design that simulates the campus and its buildings of a community college in Bukidnon, Philippines through Virtual Reality. With the immersion of technology, this project represents the architectural design of the establishment with the use of Virtual Reality Technology. Method:…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Simulation, Community Colleges, School Buildings
Werner-Fraczek, Joanna – Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research, 2020
Moreno Valley College, a two-year community college in Southern California, experiences an annual migration of cliff swallows. The presence of these birds inspired the development of the undergraduate research program Flying with Swallows. The assessment of the project indicated significant increases in qualitative student outcomes such as…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Undergraduate Students, Student Research, Ornithology
González Canché, Manuel S. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2018
The prevalence and emergence of college promise programs presents interesting and important methodological challenges. Based on their immediate access to de-identified data of applicants and enrollees, institutional researchers are in a privileged position to rigorously assess the effect of these programs in a myriad of outcomes. This study is a…
Descriptors: Program Development, Access to Education, College Students, Institutional Evaluation
