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Jonah Kushner; Lindsay Daugherty – RAND Corporation, 2024
This report describes how six Colorado community colleges used $1.4 million of pandemic relief funding to support individuals pursuing short-term credentials. The authors examined state and college decisions about program eligibility, student eligibility, grant amounts, funding uses, and application requirements as well as outcomes for those…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Budgeting, Financial Support, Credentials
Brian Richard Michel – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this qualitative hermeneutical phenomenological study was to explore the lived experiences of nursing program students with grant funding investment in a nursing, allied, and physical health program at a rural community college in Western New York. This rural institution is a member institution of the State University of New York…
Descriptors: Nursing Students, Nursing Education, Financial Support, Grants
Noelle M. Sugalski – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study examined the initial impact of the 2021 amendment to the Student Excellence Equals Degree (SEED) legislation on adult student program recipients at Delaware Technical Community College (Delaware Tech) in the state of Delaware. Additionally, the study explored the characteristics of adult student program recipients. The researcher used a…
Descriptors: Scholarships, Adult Students, Community Colleges, Individual Characteristics
Stanley Dai; Kayla Warner; Colleen Sommo; Emily Brennan, Contributor; Colin Hill, Contributor; Christine Johnston, Contributor; Rebekah O’Donoghue, Contributor; Michael Weiss, Contributor – MDRC, 2025
In community colleges in the United States, graduation rates remain frustratingly low. Students face many challenges, including the financial costs of attending college; the demands of school, work, and family; complex institutional systems; underfunded student support services; and insufficient preparation for college-level work. To address these…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Community Colleges, Graduation Rate, Paying for College
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Maitra, Debalina; Coley, Brooke; Greene, Clarreese – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2023
Previous research exploring the lived experiences of marginalized groups of students in STEM at community college settings is limited, despite the fact that community colleges have the potential to create pathways to 4-year engineering degrees and diversify the STEM workforce. This study explored what underrepresented students in STEM valued most…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Engineering Education, Community Colleges, Community College Students
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David A. Housel; Hannah Weinstock; Chandana Mahadeswaraswamy; Paula DaSilva Michelin – Adult Learning, 2024
Given changes in the 21st century workplace and expectations of employers, the notion that a bachelor's degree is the sole pathway to sustainable employment and a middle-class life in the United States has become obsolete. Many (e.g., Fleming, 2016) have argued that employers are now seeking employees with technical skills, digital literacy, and…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Employment Potential, Special Degree Programs, Credentials
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Monaghan, David B.; Attewell, Paul A. – Sociology of Education, 2023
Since the Tennessee Promise's 2014 launch, "free college" or "Promise" programs have proliferated rapidly and converged on design features: a "last-dollar" award and community college applicability. Researchers who study these programs' effects generally presume they are tuition-reducing endeavors. In contrast, we…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Tuition, Student Costs, Politics of Education
Graham, Lori Jean – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This study was designed to explore the lived experiences of the free tuition movement from the standpoint of community college administrators. To accomplish this objective, a qualitative phenomenological approach was chosen. The sampling used in this study was purposive sampling which included nine colleges and eleven semi-structured telephone…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Administration, Administrators, Administrator Attitudes
Ostrye, Mary; Rankin, Bruce; Jacobs, Jim – Jobs for the Future, 2021
Community colleges are not immune to the challenges faced by the education sector as they try to continue providing quality learning experiences during the ongoing pandemic. Some might argue that COVID-19 exposed vulnerabilities that have long needed attention, such as the 16-week semester model, a heavy reliance on in-person learning, a lack of…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Certificates, Technical Support, Adult Students
Danisha Keating – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore how foster care support programs staff describe best practices to improve the financial, emotional, and academic experiences for foster care youth who matriculated into community colleges. For this study, the theoretical framework was ecological system by Urie Bronfenbrenner. This…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Community Colleges, Foster Care, Youth Programs
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Lee, Jungmin; Fernandez, Frank; Ro, Hyun Kyoung – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2022
The article describes enrollment, retention, and institutional expenditures on instruction, academic support, and student services at community colleges in Tennessee and Oregon after these states implemented Promise scholarship programs. This article highlights that college attendance and choice among recent high school graduates changed after the…
Descriptors: Enrollment Trends, School Holding Power, Academic Persistence, Expenditures
Barr, Christopher A. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic and the move to fully remote education required higher education practitioners to place extra focus on low socioeconomic students and those considered most at risk due to the disruption in learning (Goldrick-Rab, 2020; Kerr, 2020; Lustig, 2020; Miller, 2020; Zenter, 2020). Davis (2020) discovered that rural first-generation…
Descriptors: Pandemics, Federal Aid, COVID-19, Federal Legislation
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Raby, Rosalind Latiner – College and University, 2020
In the United States, approximately 33 percent of all community colleges offer at least one type of international education program; of those, about 13 percent offer designated education abroad programs (Malveaux and Raby 2019). Advocacy for community college international education is also not new and is evident in publications, reports, and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Study Abroad, Institutional Mission
Fiore, Francesca Louise – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Since their inception in the 1960s, federally funded workforce development programs have promised a solution to unemployment, labor market skills gaps, and income inequality. However, until recently, lack of data and methodological challenges have made evaluation of these programs difficult. Funded by the U.S. Department of Labor in response to…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Financial Support, Capacity Building, Employment
Daugherty, Lindsay; Johnston, William R.; Berglund, Tiffany – RAND Corporation, 2020
Single Stop U.S.A.'s Community College Initiative was designed to improve the well-being of low-income communities by connecting individuals to public benefits and other institutional and community resources to address nonacademic barriers to college completion. Through offices located on community college campuses, Single Stop provides students…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Student Personnel Services, Social Services
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