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Direct linkStacy A. Teeters – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Community colleges play a vital role in providing access to higher educational opportunities for their communities. College completion rates for community colleges, however, have been historically low and few students graduate within a two-year timeframe. Disaggregating these data also reveals significant equity gaps in these outcomes for many…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community College Students, Guided Pathways, Leadership Role
Peer reviewedSophie McGuinness – Research in Higher Education, 2025
Short-term certificate (STC) programs at community colleges represent a long-standing policy priority to align accelerated postsecondary credentials with job opportunities in local labor markets. Despite large investments in developing STCs, little evidence exists about where and when STCs are opened and whether community colleges open new…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Alignment (Education), Community Colleges, Community College Students
Xiaodan Hu; Jay Menees – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2024
Community colleges are an important entry point and pathway for students to obtain a postsecondary degree in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields. To broaden STEM participation and increase STEM persistence, it is important to support community college students' college-level course completion and academic performance. This…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, Community Colleges, STEM Education, Guided Pathways
Jennifer Maloy; Jed Shahar – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2024
This article considers recent trends in developmental education and analyzes disaggregated student data, exploring the extent to which developmental education reform of corequisite instruction affected access of one community college's students to a first-semester composition course. By examining student access and student success across two…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Educational Change, Community Colleges, Community College Students
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
Download full textCyrette 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
David B. Monaghan; Elizabeth A. Hawke – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
"Free college" programs are widespread in American higher education. They are discussed as addressing college access, affordability, inequality, and skills shortages. Many are last-dollar tuition guarantees restricted to use at single community colleges. Using student-level data spanning the transition to college, we investigate how two…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Tuition, Costs, Scholarships
Melissa Whatley – Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2024
This study adopts an equity-driven lens to focus on how international education serves to reproduce long-standing racial and economic hierarchies through a critical exploration of which students participate in two international education experiences: at-home internationalized coursework and study abroad. Drawing from student demographic data…
Descriptors: International Education, Enrollment, Community Colleges, Community College Students
Krista M. Soria; Stacey E. Vakanski; Trevor White; Ryan Arp – Community College Review, 2024
Objective: The purpose of this paper was to examine variables associated with food insecurity among community college caregivers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: We used data from a multi-institutional survey of 15,051 caregivers enrolled at 130 community colleges in 42 states in fall 2020. We used a logistic regression to examine whether…
Descriptors: Food, Hunger, Community Colleges, Caregivers
Pamela L. Eddy; Kim E. VanDerLinden – Harvard Education Press, 2024
Pamela Eddy and Kim VanDerLinden offer discerning guidance for advancing social justice and addressing persistent opportunity gaps in US higher education in "A Blueprint for Equity-Driven Community College Leadership." Eddy and VanDerLinden argue that, given the diverse population of students that community colleges serve, these…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Administration, Equal Education, Social Justice
Nancy Hoffman – Jobs for the Future, 2024
Despite the fact that many learners are attracted to the humanities and liberal arts, community college students--particularly those from low-income backgrounds--are often advised to avoid those subjects in favor of STEM-related courses like information technology, health care, and engineering. The reason is clear: unless students have had…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Humanities, Liberal Arts, Employment Potential
Holley Nichols; Dion Harry; Devon Graves – Belk Center for Community College Leadership and Research, 2024
There is a pressing need for focused leadership development aimed at rural community colleges, which have challenges distinct to their geographic contexts. Designed to address these needs, the Belk Center for Community College Leadership and Research developed the three-year, cohort-based Rural College Leaders Program (RCLP). This…
Descriptors: Rural Colleges, Leadership Training, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Community Colleges
Schanker, Jennifer Ballard; Orians, Erica Lee – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2023
This chapter reflects on how the Michigan Center for Student Success (MCSS) has leveraged its position within a membership organization for community college presidents and trustees to engage in statewide student success efforts in a state with a unique higher education governance structure. With no formal higher education governing body to set…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community College Students, College Presidents, Trustees
Everrett A. Smith; Michael T. Miller – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2023
Urban community colleges have been studied primarily from a case study perspective, often highlighted by doctoral students conducting research at their institutions. Little of this scholarship, however, has been translated into the base of literature, as less than 5% of the citations in the largest search engines are focused on urban community…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Community Colleges, Definitions, Institutional Mission
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
