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Kenyada McLeod; Pradnya Patet; Crystal Miller; Steve Carlisle; LaToya Reynolds; Shauna Mayo – Inquiry: The Journal of the Virginia Community Colleges, 2024
Brightpoint's HyFlex Pilot Program was a year-long project funded by the Online Virginia Network (OVN) to support faculty in the design and delivery of an actual HyFlex course. The cohort consisted of faculty who teach in the biology, architecture, early childhood, and web design disciplines. Participants worked in collaboration with one another…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Blended Learning, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Implementation
Melissa Suzanne McKinney – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this case study was to understand approaches for preparing students for their transition to a four-year university following completion of a transfer-focused associate degree at a community college. The theory guiding this study was Albert Bandura's social cognitive theory. The study followed an embedded, single case study design…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Rural Areas, College Preparation, Universities
Jeanne E. Hopkins – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Whereas Kindergarten through Grade 12 teachers go through extension education and training to teach, it is rare for a college faculty member to go through training on how to teach. Since there is little research about higher education faculty professional development, the purpose of this study was to learn the perspectives of college faculty who…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Evaluation Methods, Teaching Methods
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Jorge Grajales-Díaz – Inquiry: The Journal of the Virginia Community Colleges, 2025
This study employed qualitative methods to explore how the "UVA in Valencia Summer Program 2019/2021" approached instructional practices (e.g., in-class and out-of-class immersive learning activities, homestays, pre-program services, including use of L2 and culture learning strategies) to identify those features of the program design…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Study Abroad, Teaching Methods, Program Design
Margaret Hennessy; Ivonne Garcia; Sabrina Klein; Sarah Salimi – MDRC, 2025
Getting a head start on college coursework in high school has become an even more important goal for high school students in recent years, due in part to the rising costs of obtaining traditional four-year college degrees coupled with the disruptions in learning for high school and college students due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now more than ever,…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, High School Students, College Credits, Acceleration (Education)
Bickerstaff, Susan; Ran, Florence Xiaotao – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2020
This report describes findings from a study of the Engaging Adjunct Faculty in the Student Success Movement project, a two-year initiative led by Achieving the Dream to develop and implement strategies to support adjunct faculty in improving student outcomes. Work in the project--guided by design principles related to classroom activities,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Faculty, Adjunct Faculty, Part Time Faculty
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Edgecombe, Nikki – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2016
This chapter describes the structure and implementation of a redesign of developmental education in the Virginia Community College System, discusses preliminary descriptive findings from an evaluation of the redesign, and shares lessons for the field.
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Developmental Studies Programs, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Evaluation
Achieving the Dream, 2019
This Guide is designed to support the work of institutional cross-functional teams charged with strengthening adjunct faculty professional learning and institutional engagement. Each section shares key learnings from ATD's work with six Leader Colleges, including accomplishments in the form of new programs, services, or policies that can serve as…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Adjunct Faculty, Part Time Faculty, Faculty Development
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Parker, Patricia – Inquiry, 2019
The Virginia Community College System (VCCS) embarked on a comprehensive mathematics pathways project in October 2015 with a move from design to implementation in spring 2017. The VCCS Mathematics Pathways Project (VMPP) aimed not only to develop strategies to improve retention and completion, but also to address foundational barriers to students'…
Descriptors: Statewide Planning, Change Strategies, School Holding Power, Academic Persistence
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Burge-Hall, Valerie; Garrison, Latoya; Giles-Brown, Leigh; Lepore, Dan; McNall, Melanie; Pauly, Christine; Quinn, Andrew; Vaughn Jordan, Lisa – Inquiry, 2019
The Virginia Community College System (VCCS) administration identified the need for adequate and proactive advising programs to foster student success. This paper presents a review of "best practices" in advising to determine commonalities, provides a comparison with current VCCS advising practices, and offers recommendations that…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Administration, Best Practices, Academic Advising
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Grewe, Kim E.; Davis, W. Preston – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2017
Open Educational Resources (OER) are gaining acceptance as legitimate and effective teaching materials in higher education, particularly in 2-year institutions. Despite the steady growth in the availability and use of OER, there have been relatively few studies on the efficacy of OER and student achievement. This study analyzed the effect…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Program Effectiveness, Open Source Technology, Educational Resources
Dwyer, Lori Jean – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Student attrition has been a significant challenge facing higher education for decades and is particularly pronounced within community colleges. Specifically, first-time postsecondary students only experienced a 59.3 percent retention rate between Fall 2013 and Fall 2014; at two-year colleges, less than half (46.9 percent) of students were…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Early Intervention, Program Effectiveness
Bickerstaff, Sarah; Raufman, Julia – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2017
This paper documents the perceptions and experiences of faculty members in the midst of statewide reform efforts in Virginia and North Carolina to integrate developmental reading and writing courses. Using interview and focus group data from 161 faculty and administrators in both states (combined) as well as three detailed case studies of faculty…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Remedial Reading, Reading Instruction, Writing Instruction
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Debb, Scott M.; Dozier, Jenny; Haugh, Linda – Inquiry, 2014
For students of any academic background or vocational preference, introductory psychology is also one of the most popular social science courses. For many students in the community college setting, the introductory psychology course may be the only formal exposure to non-pseudoscience theory a student will receive. The Virginia Community College…
Descriptors: Psychology, Virtual Classrooms, Student Attitudes, Feedback (Response)
Giampa, Joan Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Sinking maps, created by Northern Virginia Community College professor Joan Marie Giampa, are tools that teach fine art students how to construct visual metaphor by conceptually mapping sensory perceptions. Her dissertation answers the question, "Can visual metaphor be conceptually mapped in the art classroom?" In the Prologue, Giampa…
Descriptors: Fine Arts, Sensory Experience, Maps, Visual Stimuli
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