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A Quasi-Experimental Investigation of Adult Student Enrollment Responses to the Tennessee Reconnect Grant
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Collom, Gresham D. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2023
In this study I deployed quasi-experimental methods to explore enrollment responses to a unique statewide college promise program for adult students attending college within the two-year public postsecondary education sector in Tennessee. State policymakers implemented Tennessee Reconnect in 2018 to encourage adult students without a college…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Enrollment, Grants, Two Year Colleges
Building on Completion Gains: Amplifying Progress and Closing Persistent Gaps
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Complete College America, 2022
Across the country, colleges using Complete College America (CCA) strategies are improving graduation rates. But despite these overall gains, data continues to show persistent institutional performance gaps for BILPOC (Black, Indigenous, Latinx, People of Color) students and students ages 25 and older. Students in both of these groups…
Descriptors: College Students, Minority Group Students, Adult Students, Achievement Gap
Building a Community of Enquiry with Students on a Foundation Degree in Early Years
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Bath, Caroline; Barr, Karen; Haynes, Mary – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2014
This article discusses a project designed to build a community of enquiry in the first year of a foundation degree in early years at an English university. Derived originally from Lipman's ideas of Philosophy for Children, this approach became a regular part of the fortnightly session for these early childhood practitioners, in order to support…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Communities of Practice, Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers
Online Education: Where Is It Going? What Should Boards Know?
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Green, Kenneth C.; Wagner, Ellen – Trusteeship, 2011
Online learning is an increasingly prominent and legitimate presence in higher education--nearly one third of full-time and part time students at nonprofit and for-profit institutions took one or more online courses in 2009, according to the Sloan Consortium. While the value of taking a college or university "online" may be obvious and…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Part Time Students, Online Courses, College Faculty
Protecting Health and Saving Lives: The Part-Time/Internet-Based Master of Public Health Program at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
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Bruce, Linda; Gresh, Kathy; Vanchiswaran, Rohini; Werapitiya, Deepthi – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2007
This article discusses the part-time/Internet-based Master of Public Health (MPH) program at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH). The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health was the first school of public health in the United States to offer a Master of Public Health program via the Internet. The JHSPH MPH Program…
Descriptors: Public Health, Internet, Masters Programs, Part Time Students
Some Features of a Part-Time Degree Programme in Psychology: Further Support for the Provision of a Foundation Year
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Harrop, Alex; Tattersall, Andy; Cairns, Jennie – Psychology Teaching Review, 2006
A part-time degree programme has been run at the Liverpool John Moores University, formerly Liverpool Polytechnic, for some 20 years without any systematic attempt to evaluate its effects on students. An evaluation was begun by focusing on graduates of the programme who entered between 1992 and 1994 and continued with recent part-time students.…
Descriptors: Psychology, College Programs, Bachelors Degrees, Program Evaluation