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Download full textJenan Jondy; Mary ZumBrunnen – Metropolitan Universities, 2025
Inequities continue to weaken Michigan's capacity to respond quickly and effectively to crises, both natural and human-made. Minority and low-income populations, already disadvantaged, suffer the burden of the inequitable social, environmental, and economic injustices that have culminated in previously unacknowledged levels. Since 2011, the…
Descriptors: State Universities, Economic Development, Community Development, School Community Relationship
Colin Hill; Kayla Warner; Colleen Sommo – MDRC, 2025
Obtaining a degree from a community college is a strong pathway to numerous career opportunities for students from low-income backgrounds. Unfortunately, graduation rates from community colleges are often very low, so many students do not reap the benefits of a degree. With the goal of increasing graduation rates, three community colleges in…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Graduation Rate, Acceleration (Education), Models
Lena Novak; Claudia Escobar; Noor Amanullah; Makoto Toyoda; Rebekah O’Donoghue – MDRC, 2025
In the United States, many community college students--about 68 percent--enroll part-time, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. Unfortunately, graduation rates for part-time students are low. Only 19 percent of people who begin attending community college as part-time students graduate within six years, compared with 36…
Descriptors: Part Time Students, Community College Students, Educational Practices, Academic Persistence
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Direct linkJustin C. Ortagus; Hope Allchin; Benjamin Skinner; Melvin Tanner; Isaac McFarlin – Education Finance and Policy, 2025
Most students who begin at a community college do not complete their desired credential. Many students fail to graduate due to various barriers other than their academic performance. To encourage previously successful non-completers to re-enroll and eventually graduate, a growing number of community colleges have implemented re-enrollment…
Descriptors: Community College Students, College Enrollment, Dropouts, Academic Persistence
Marx, Christopher John – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Adult students comprise a significant percentage of community college enrollments. However, these students have consistently completed college programs at lower rates than traditional-aged students. Community college structures, including student advisement, often align primarily with the needs of traditional-aged students. This has resulted in a…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Community College Students, Academic Advising, Mentors
Leslie Abell; Dennis J. Downey; Pilar Pacheco – Metropolitan Universities, 2023
Community-Based Research (CBR) presents a wide range of benefits in higher education to students, community partners, and universities. Yet on our campus (and many others), CBR remains less common than other high-impact practices (HIPs) such as service learning and undergraduate research due to lack of effective institutionalization. Moreover,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, School Community Relationship, Cooperation, Research
Lynnette Young Overby; Diana Crum; Jill Grundstrom; Francine E. Ott; Melissa van Wijk – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2025
Postgraduate dance education students can develop a practice of arts-based, engaged scholarship by applying their disciplinary knowledge in collaboration with community partners to enact projects that benefit local, regional and/or global communities and their own scholarship. The present article analyses seven arts-based research projects…
Descriptors: Dance Education, Doctoral Students, Community Involvement, Seminars
Bazirake, Joseph Besigye; Hamukuaya, Hashali; Chauke, Tinyiko; Mngadi, Anele; De Raedt, Amy – Perspectives in Education, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic set higher education institutions on an unprecedented path requiring of them to identify alternative strategies and implement various initiatives to sustain their academic projects. With the widespread devastation of the pandemic, the purpose of universities within their communities were again in the spotlight. A sensibility…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Universities
Payam Sheikhattari; Jummai Apata; Gillian Beth Silver; Shiva Mehravaran; Emma Mitchell; Shervin Assari – Metropolitan Universities, 2023
Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is an effective approach for addressing health disparities by integrating diverse knowledge and expertise from both academic and community partners throughout the research process. However, universities and funding agencies have not done enough to invest in the foundational infrastructure and resources…
Descriptors: Higher Education, School Community Relationship, Partnerships in Education, Research
Micah C. Longjohn – Community College Enterprise, 2025
Higher education increasingly relies on remedial coursework to bridge knowledge gaps among incoming students (Chen, 2016). Students assessed as below college level enroll in remediation to review secondary concepts, especially in mathematics (Kane et al., 2020). However, pressures over funding, student persistence, and completion rates exacerbate…
Descriptors: Remedial Instruction, Remedial Mathematics, College Faculty, Community Colleges
Isabelita Destura Quintero – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This qualitative descriptive study delves into the strengths and challenges community-engaged faculty face in sustaining university-community partnerships through community engagement. Framed by Bender's community engagement model, the primary research question examines how university faculty articulate their strengths and challenges within these…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, School Community Relationship, Partnerships in Education, Community Involvement
Linnea Harvey; Audrey E. H. King; J. Shane Robinson; Tyson E. Ochsner; Paul Weckler; Mark Woodring – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2024
Rural communities face incredible challenges and emerging opportunities. Land-grant universities are well-positioned to assist by developing new approaches to inspire university students to become civically engaged, rural community members. With this aim, the Rural Scholars program at Oklahoma State University was developed as an opportunity for…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, College Students, School Community Relationship, Land Grant Universities
Federick Ngo; Tatiana Melguizo – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2025
AB705 is a landmark higher education policy that has changed approaches to developmental/remedial education in the California Community College system. We study one district that implemented reforms by placing most students in transfer-level math/English courses and encouraging enrollment in support courses based on multiple measures of academic…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Remedial Instruction, Educational Change, College Mathematics
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
Patricia M. Lanzon; Amanda M. Davis-Fritzley; Jodi A. Burns – Pennsylvania Teacher Educator, 2024
Using the Pennsylvania Department of Education Family/Community Standards, university professors from the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford collaborated with multiple community clubs such as the Rotary and Kiwanis as well as local agencies including St. Bonaventure University on the development and implementation of a family literacy day event…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Family Literacy, School Community Programs, Community Organizations
