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Miller, Michael; Grover, Kenda S.; Kacirek, Kit – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2014
One of the key services community colleges provide is community education, meaning those programs and activities that are often offered for leisure or self-improvement and not for credit. Programs of this nature are increasingly challenged to be self-financing, whether through user fees or externally funded grants. The current study explored 75…
Descriptors: Community Education, Content Analysis, Web Sites, Mail Surveys
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Schrum, Lynne; English, Mary C.; Galizio, Lyndsie M. – Internet and Higher Education, 2012
A FIPSE-funded project was designed to provide support and training to community college faculty electronically, and to develop a model to offer innovative, interactive strategies to support their students' academic and career needs. The goal of the mentoring/coaching program has been to support instructors in their online efforts, provide…
Descriptors: Mentors, Career Counseling, Classroom Environment, College Faculty
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Wachen, John; Jenkins, Davis; Van Noy, Michelle – Community College Review, 2011
The federal government and private foundations for education have established postsecondary credential completion as a national imperative. Washington State's Integrated Basic Education and Skills Training (I-BEST) model was developed to increase the rate at which basic skills students advance to and succeed in college-level occupational programs,…
Descriptors: Evidence, Technical Education, Basic Skills, Career Education
Mullin, Christopher M.; Lebesch, Anna – American Association of Community Colleges (NJ1), 2010
The need for better data on the performance of higher education has become a major focus of education policymakers, and this has been reflected in federal legislation. Community colleges are appropriately held accountable for the workforce outcomes of their students, but the data that are gathered to evaluate those outcomes must reflect the…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Program Descriptions, Content Analysis, Education Work Relationship