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Lesley Lynn Zimmerman-Cooper – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Since the inception of the guided pathways model in 2015, most related research has focused on the interconnecting processes and practices that lead to student persistence and completion. While the processes and practices are the basis of the model, scholars acknowledge that the model's human capital and change management components are just as…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Faculty, Guided Pathways, Academic Persistence
Yoi Tibbetts; Stacy J. Priniski; Cameron A. Hecht; Geoffrey D. Borman; Judith M. Harackiewicz – Grantee Submission, 2018
First-generation (FG) college students (students for whom neither parent has a 4-year degree) face a number of challenges as they attempt to obtain a post-secondary degree. They are more likely to come from working-class backgrounds or poverty (Reardon, 2011) and attend lower quality high schools (Warburton et al., 2001) while not benefiting from…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Two Year Colleges, Group Membership, Values
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Hom, Willard C. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2011
Policymakers, administrators, and institutional researchers should recognize the critical stakeholders in the area of institutional effectiveness at the community college, their differences in perceptions about institutional effectiveness, and ways to negotiate these differences in perception. This article identifies the different stakeholders in…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Institutional Evaluation, Stakeholders, Values
Heidemann, Virginia Margaret – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Transmountain Early College High School (TMECHS) opened in August 2008, created by a partnership between the El Paso Community College (EPCC) and the El Paso Independent School District (EPISD), and supported in its conceptualization, start-up, and first few years operation by grant funding and guidance from the Texas High School Project (THSP)…
Descriptors: High Schools, Distance Education, School Districts, Educational Change