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Download full textTan, Connie; Moore, Colleen – Education Insights Center, 2020
This is the first brief in a series on learnings from career education (CE) opportunities in the California Community Colleges (CCC). The series begins on learnings from CE opportunities in the CCC system by highlighting what students described as most helpful in contributing to their success. These CE programs were aimed at helping students find…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Career Education, Community Colleges, School Schedules
Iris Palmer; Shalin Jyotishi – New America, 2023
Despite the growing demand and availability of non-degree workforce training, outcomes for these programs are mixed. For some, non-degree programs are a faster, more affordable pathway to a good job, and, more importantly, a career that offers economic security--they represent the future of education. But for others, non-degree programs are a…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Credentials, Work Experience Programs, Nontraditional Education
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
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Direct linkWind, 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
Anita Forrester – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this mixed methods research is to explore how global studies programs are designed and implemented at public community colleges in the United States and to identify the challenges and the opportunities facing the faculty and administrators tasked with establishing global studies. Despite the fact that most global programs have been…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Global Approach, Public Colleges, Minority Serving Institutions
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
Karon, Julia; Rossman, Daniel; Vilorio, Elaine; Alamuddin, Rayane – ITHAKA S+R, 2022
Bachelor's degree attainment for community college transfer students is one underutilized but essential pathway for reducing equity gaps in higher education. One way to achieve this at scale is through state-level initiatives dedicated to supporting transfer from community colleges to not-for-profit independent colleges. The Teagle Foundation and…
Descriptors: Bachelors Degrees, College Transfer Students, Private Colleges, Program Development
Iris Palmer; Shalin Jyotishi – New America, 2022
Despite the growing demand and availability of non-degree workforce training, outcomes for these programs are mixed. For some, non-degree programs are a faster, more affordable pathway to a good job, and, more importantly, a career that offers economic security--they represent the future of education. But for others, non-degree programs are a…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Credentials, Work Experience Programs, Nontraditional Education
Mac, Jacqueline; Sarreal, Adrianne D.; Wang, Amy C.; Museus, Samuel D. – New Directions for Higher Education, 2019
Increased knowledge about the conditions that have catalyzed and enabled institutions to seek and effectively acquire federally recognized and supported Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions (AANAPISI) status can inform the work of potential and emerging AANAPISIs.
Descriptors: Asian American Students, Pacific Islanders, Federal Aid, Knowledge Level
Harrington, Christine; Melendez, John – Impacting Education: Journal on Transforming Professional Practice, 2020
The purpose of this article is to share an example of how an activism framework was used to design and launch a new EdD in Community College Leadership. Capper, Theoharis, and Sebastian's (2006) framework for preparing leaders for social justice along with the Carnegie Project for the Education Doctorate's (CPED) guiding principles and the…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Community Colleges, Leadership, Postsecondary Education as a Field of Study
Hunke, Lori L. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Although campus crises have been an ever-present aspect of college life, they have been increasing in number and intensity. While disasters prompted many colleges to prepare crisis plans, the COVID-19 pandemic presented unique challenges. Effective and timely crisis leadership can affect the crisis outcome. By understanding the leadership styles…
Descriptors: College Presidents, Community Colleges, Leadership, Attitudes
Iris Palmer; Shalin Jyotishi – New America, 2022
Despite the growing demand and availability of non-degree workforce training, outcomes for these programs are mixed. For some, non-degree programs are a faster, more affordable pathway to a good job, and, more importantly, a career that offers economic security--they represent the future of education. But for others, non-degree programs are a…
Descriptors: Educational Planning, Community Colleges, Credentials, Work Experience Programs
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
