Population aging and the migration of young people to urban regions have led to a decline in agricultural knowledge. Nevertheless, the community of practices serves as a social learning platform, enabling the informal exchange of experiences among farmers. This study aims to examine the factors that influence knowledge sharing (KS) in…

This article illustrates how collaborative artistic creation in a world language class can offer multiple cognitive, social, cultural and professional benefits for language learners. An interdisciplinary mural project undertaken in a community college serves as a case study to examine these ideas. The class was co-taught by the authors, a teaching…

The high cost of textbooks creates barriers for students, especially those from underserved backgrounds, such as Black and Hispanic/Latinx/e students. This action research study aimed to reveal how Open Educational Resources (OER), or free, openly licensed materials, could mitigate barriers to success for Black and Hispanic/Latinx/e students. The…

Rural Community Colleges serve as community hubs for their regions and often times provide the only access to higher education for miles around. Like community colleges around the country, rural community colleges also provide access to Students of Color at greater rates than their 4-year university peers. Yet, equity-driven practices in rural…

College students make repeated course enrollment decisions, which are informed by their beliefs and preferences about course and institutional characteristics. Cross-enrollment, an enrollment pattern in which community college students simultaneously take a class at a 4-year college or university while still enrolled in classes at their community…

Children's museums are delightful, whimsical, and joyful places, but they are undertheorized. This limits our capacity to fully leverage children's museums as spaces for expansive visions of literacy learning. It also limits our examination of the potential harms enacted by children's museums. To theorize the children's museum, I take Ash's…

In this paper, we present a case study of the Baltimore Immigration Summit (BIS) and argue that it represents a model for how universities can engage with partners in local governments and other parts of their communities. In so doing, we offer a model that draws from but also expands on work on public sociology and anchor institutions. The BIS is…

The research presented in this article uses a community resilience framework to examine the lived experiences of Somali refugee Family Child Care providers in the United States who participated in the Steps to Family Child Care Success Program (STEPS), a year-long professional development program embedded in an ethnic community based organization…

The learning outcome, "Students will learn to engage with and impact society," is common in curricular frameworks addressing undergraduate sociology education; however, it does not receive adequate coverage compared to other competencies. The lack of attention to this outcome coupled with the tendency to focus heavily on social problems…

Purpose: Community engaged research and learning strategies are considered meaningful methods for universities to demonstrate their critical importance to today's societies. At the same time, it is stressed that not all approaches are equally beneficial, highlighting the need for well-considered design and delivery. This paper aims to outline a…

Students studying technical fields like IS/IT (Information Systems/Information Technology) face the challenge of showing potential employers that they have done work for real clients, not just course projects that are never used. At the same time, instructors face the challenge of actively engaging students in learning course content and…

The community school concept has become a popular school reform model that has gained traction in urban school systems. To date, however, few studies have looked across contexts to see how various communities are conceptualizing the reform: the aims that are articulated, the partnerships that are being created, or sustainability plans. In this…

While studies have examined leadership efforts to improve community engagement, less is known about how deeply rooted structured discourses, systems, and practices influence leadership actions and responses from communities. Deficit approaches to educational policy reform are pervasive in the most historically marginalized communities and school…

Digital engagement as a tool for communication offers a variety of formats for reaching and potentially attracting prospective college students. While printed materials were once the primary means for colleges to communicate with and subsequently influence student's choice, the internet has created a virtual world for digitally engaging with…

As community colleges emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic there may be a tendency to rely on technology to facilitate more online coursework. Online education has been a fixture of higher education since the mid-1990s, but there's always been a question as to whether it is effective as traditional, face-to-face coursework. This is especially…