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Brent Lamar Via – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Employee retention is an ongoing challenge for higher education student affairs professionals, who account for the largest employee group across the higher education workforce. Job satisfaction and organizational commitment have previously been identified as correlated with college and university employees' decision to stay or vacate their…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Student Personnel Workers, Leadership Styles, Leadership Responsibility
Cristina Rangel – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this content analysis study was to describe the way international student populations were conceptualized on the websites of 2-year public colleges in Texas. This inquiry replicated the Ford and Cate (2020) study, "The Discursive Construction of International Students in the USA: Prestige, Diversity, and Economic Gain."…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Web Sites, Content Analysis, Foreign Students
Azar, Madelyn – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Despite rising enrollment for first generation college students (FGCS) and Hispanic FGCS, there is a disparity in college graduation rates across the United State compared to other groups. FGCS and Hispanic FGCS have historically been faced with more factors that disrupt higher education success. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Hispanic American Students, COVID-19, Pandemics
Matthew Brandel – ProQuest LLC, 2024
There is a steady decline in Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) graduation rates, especially from two-year institutions. These institutions have been an integral part of U.S. higher education system, and access for underrepresented groups has been a top priority in recent decades with the passing of specific legislation. Despite growing efforts to…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Community College Students, Hispanic American Students, Minority Serving Institutions
Karen Irving – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this study was to examine student experiences from Mid-Atlantic community colleges during the COVID-19 pandemic and the related impact on their perceived stress levels and academic performance. Adopting a cross-sectional survey research approach, this study aimed to critically examine how students navigated their academic lives…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Anxiety, Academic Achievement, Community College Students
Jeffrey Pool – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this dissertation is to study the impostor phenomenon feelings in community and technical college presidents in the upper Midwest. This research is grounded in the previous works of Dr. P.R.Clance and uses her Clance Impostor Phenomenon Scale (CIPS) to evaluate the strength of impostor phenomenon feelings. Previous research has…
Descriptors: Self Esteem, Community Colleges, College Presidents, Technical Institutes
Rachel Conner Jennische – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This quantitative study examined the comparative factors of academic success between ECHS students (ECHS) and non-ECHS traditional college students, and utilized secondary data from National Student Clearinghouse and an East Texas community college. The enrollment of students in ECHS and non-ECHS traditional college students guided the study. The…
Descriptors: High School Students, Dual Enrollment, Community College Students, Academic Achievement
Miller, Kimberley Lee – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this quantitative study was to measure the change in mathematics self-efficacy of students enrolled in a college mathematics course at a community college in Missouri. The change was measured over a single semester as a pre-test and post-test. The timing of this study is significant, given that it follows statewide changes in…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Self Efficacy, Guided Pathways, Mathematics Education
Ashtian C. Holmes – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this phenomenological inquiry is to understand the experiences of formerly incarcerated Black male students who attend a Northeast urban community college and the unique barriers they encounter while navigating the institution. The United States imprisons more people than any country in the world, and Black men are…
Descriptors: African American Students, Blacks, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions
William Vega – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Though online course offerings have expanded to meet the needs of student access in the context of funding constraints, research has shown worse student outcomes in online classes, with significant inequities by race and ethnicity. Consequently, the proliferation of online course offerings could have vast implications for equity in the California…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Community College Students, Academic Persistence, Time to Degree
Jacob Cutshall-Church – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this descriptive, quantitative study is to explore the matriculation rates for first-time, full-time freshmen who were previously enrolled in dual enrollment courses while in high school at one of the 13 public community colleges in Tennessee. Percentages, means, standard deviations, ranges, percentages, and proportions were used to…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, College Admission, College Freshmen, Community College Students
Garrett Blake Lewis – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Community colleges have historically faced significant challenges in retaining students, particularly from underserved populations. While extracurricular activities like athletics have been shown to enhance student engagement and persistence, the specific impact of athletic participation on retention and sense of belonging among diverse student…
Descriptors: Athletics, Student Athletes, Student Participation, Academic Persistence
Antoinette Newsome – ProQuest LLC, 2023
While there is an increase in racial and ethnic diversity on college campuses, the rate of degree completion remains uneven and disproportionate to the population (Aud et al., 2012; Williams, 2013). For Black and Latinx students at both two- and four-year institutions, degree completion issues remain persistent and have widened over time (Taylor…
Descriptors: African American Students, Hispanic American Students, Time to Degree, Racial Differences
Erin Hussey – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Active learning strategies are a popular method in current classrooms and educational research. As diversity in the United States population, and likewise in the post-secondary classroom, continues to increase, educational studies should be reporting results in terms of student diversity. Many studies instead report active learning strategy…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Active Learning, Student Attitudes, Preferences
Rahime-Malik Howard – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The current study examined hindering factors of 2-year community college students' vertical transfer to 4-year colleges. Rational choice theory guided the study and provided the scope of the problem, which is community college students' apprehension about vertically transferring to 4-year colleges. A quantitative Likert-scale survey, which…
Descriptors: Barriers, Community College Students, Undergraduate Students, College Transfer Students