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Wang, Yunwei; Wang, Xueli; Wagner, Brit; Romero-Reyes, Joseph – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2023
This chapter illustrates the potential promise and complexities of free college initiatives from the perspective of administrators, faculty, staff, and students who are involved in a scholarship program at a small Midwestern community college. Based on two waves of interviews conducted in 2019 and 2021 respectively, we found that, while largely…
Descriptors: Tuition, Educational Finance, Administrator Attitudes, Community Colleges
Rebecca G. Childs – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Most Black males envision community colleges as a gateway to higher education and upward mobility. Unfortunately, success metrics from across the United States reveal that community colleges fail to facilitate equitable outcomes for these students. A combination of factors creates campus climates that are not conducive to Black male student sense…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Blacks, Males, African American Students
Lauren Sosenko – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Hundreds of community colleges are attempting transformational pathway reform, also known as guided pathways, to improve student outcomes. This qualitative case study explored sensemaking and organizational learning, early processes of transformational change, among administrators, faculty, and staff implementing pathway reform in a California…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Guided Pathways, Organizational Change, Program Implementation
Daniel William Beugnet – ProQuest LLC, 2024
With just 43% of community college students graduating within six years (Causey et al., 2022b), low graduation rates have been the defining, animating issue for community colleges for over a decade (Cutler & White, 2022). Concurrently, high-impact practices (HIPs) have proven enormously successful in improving student outcomes at higher…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Research, Geographic Location, Community Colleges
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Hyun-Sook Kang; LaTanya Kurney – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
This qualitative case study examines, through an educational equity lens, the motivation, challenges, and assessment associated with international program development as appraised by the faculty and administrators in a district of multiple community colleges. To this end, semi-structured interviews were conducted with four faculty members and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Faculty, Study Abroad, Overseas Employment
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Draper, Darryl; Mayes, Lisa; Payne, Brian – Open Learning, 2023
To counter tuition and textbook costs for degree-seeking students, a specific pathway to a bachelor's degree in Leadership was developed. The pathway, comprised of partnerships with the high school Leadership Academy at a public high school, community college, and Old Dominion University (ODU), reduced tuition and textbook costs, allowing the…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Open Educational Resources, High School Teachers, College Faculty
Jasmin Gill – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Using a case study approach, this qualitative study was an examination of a California community college's counseling faculty perspectives on a collegewide reform known as guided pathways (GP). Relying on semistructured interviews, the examination focused on how the counseling faculty perceived their roles in the GP implementation process, the…
Descriptors: Guided Pathways, Community Colleges, School Counselors, Educational Change
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Stack, Gary D.; Wallace, James – Studies in Higher Education, 2023
The Irish institute of technology sector is undergoing a major restructuring that will culminate in mergers, to form technological universities (TU). It is essential that the perspective of key stakeholders is fully considered throughout this process, in order to facilitate a successful transition. This research investigates the factors…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Technical Institutes, Universities
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Chase, Megan Michaelene; Bensimon, Estela; Robinson, Jason – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2021
Nationally, the pathway model -- commonly defined as "a highly structured, coherent education experience that is built around and through an area of study" -- has emerged as the preferred structural approach to deliver the curriculum at community colleges. The pathway model provides a new hope to community colleges to create a solution…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Department Heads, Educational Change, Program Implementation
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Elisabeth A. Barnett; Selena Cho; Kristin M. Cornelius; Brad C. Phillips – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2024
Caring Campus-Faculty is a program that supports faculty as they develop and implement "behavioral commitments" designed to help students feel a sense of belonging and to support them in their educational journey. Developed by the Institute for Evidence-Based Change, Caring Campus was evaluated by the Community College Research Center…
Descriptors: Caring, Campuses, Teacher Attitudes, College Faculty
Aristotle Mosier – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study explored the practices and experiences of food resource managers at ten community colleges in the southwestern United States, highlighting their use of food resource rooms to assist food-insecure students. Utilizing the CFIR's domains of intervention source, inner setting, and process, the study probed into the food resource managers'…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Poverty, Hunger, Food Service
Kimberly Murphy – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Guided Pathways, a student success reform initiative movement, requires institutions to build specific educational plans for students from start to finish of their degree or credential. The purpose of this study was to offer a model for institutions to implement Guided Pathways through the lens and experience of college leaders who have…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Administrator Attitudes, Guided Pathways, Models
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Mike Hoa Nguyen – Review of Higher Education, 2025
This study examines how Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions (AANAPISI) serve Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AA&NHPI) students. Through a two-site case study of a community college on the west coast and a regional comprehensive university on the east coast, this study details the…
Descriptors: Asian American Students, Hawaiians, Indigenous Populations, Pacific Islanders
Melguizo, Tatiana; Ngo, Federick; Ching, Cheryl; Swanson, Elise; Harrington, Deborah L.; Yücel, Elif – Pullias Center for Higher Education, 2022
The Pullias Center for Higher Education, as part of the USC-LACCD Research-Practice Partnership (RPP), is conducting a mixed-methods evaluation of Assembly Bill 705 (AB705) focused on how community college practitioners are implementing this landmark policy, which directs all 116 community colleges in the California Community College (CCC) system…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Faculty, Educational Policy, Program Implementation
Caroline Wood – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Community college completion rates are critical metrics that need attention to improve the lives of the millions of students who attend community college annually. Many college administrators have instituted a highly structured student experience using the guided pathways framework to help students get and stay on a path to degree completion. In…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Guided Pathways, Program Implementation, Community Colleges
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