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Monica W. Walker; Stacie A. Miller; Adrianne S. Washington – Teaching and Learning Excellence through Scholarship, 2023
For over 2 decades, the Learning Community Program has impacted students at the Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC), with its emphasis on critical thinking, community, belonging, and student success. Faculty teaching this high-impact practice (HIP) not only implement an integrated curriculum in 2 paired courses representing different…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Communities of Practice, College Programs, Critical Thinking
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Laura Gough; Rommel Miranda; Matthew Hemm; Leann Norman; Brian Jara – Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education, 2025
The Diffusion of Innovations (DOI) model can be used to explore how faculty prioritize learning about and adopting new pedagogical approaches. Here, we use the DOI framework to contextualize biology faculty perceptions of a professional development (PD) program designed to help them create a full semester course-based undergraduate research…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Faculty Development, Student Research
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Seana Chaves; Valerie Lee; Sarah Morris; Ann Reinecke; Austin Tome – Learning Assistance Review, 2023
In response to the COVID-19 crisis, embedded tutoring became a popular model to address the need for additional student support in higher education. Four U.S. community colleges collaborated to develop a successful embedded tutoring model that provides a framework and definition for embedded tutoring and training for tutors and participating…
Descriptors: Tutoring, Models, Community Colleges, Training
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Kimberley M. Donnelly – Teaching and Learning Excellence through Scholarship, 2023
Researchers, organizations, companies, non-profits, practitioners, and to some extent, the public, are clamoring for massive reform in developmental coursework in higher education (American Association of Community Colleges, 2018; Edgecombe et al., 2014; Complete College America, 2012). One such reform is the push for integrated reading and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Developmental Studies Programs, Educational Change, Reading Instruction
Murray, Kathleen A. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This action research study followed a sample of first-generation, first-year college students through the summer 2021 orientation process at Towson University (TU), a large public institution in Maryland. Little recent research has been conducted to understand the student experience of the orientation process. First-generation college students are…
Descriptors: School Orientation, Program Effectiveness, First Generation College Students, Sense of Community
Excelencia in Education, 2021
What works to improve the success of Latino college students? Examples of "Excelencia" is the only national effort to identify and promote evidence-based programs accelerating Latino student success in higher education. Since 2005, "Excelencia" in Education has recognized over 350 programs making a positive difference in the…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, College Students, Success, Evidence Based Practice
Maryland Higher Education Commission, 2022
This report is the culmination of a six-part series designed to provide greater insight into remediation at Maryland postsecondary institutions. Parts 1 through 4 of the research series on remediation at Maryland colleges and universities have evaluated a number of issues. Beginning with defining what remediation is and why it matters (Part 1,…
Descriptors: Remedial Instruction, Remedial Programs, Higher Education, School Holding Power
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Bowers, Maureen E.; Tobin, Leah K.; Lee, Jessica; Skendall, Kristan C.; Coale, Frank J. – Learning Communities: Research & Practice, 2020
Gemstone seeks to develop students' research and collaboration skills, foster leadership opportunities, and provide a sense of belonging on a large campus utilizing the Best Practices Model (BPM) and a variety of high impact practices (HIPs), like a Gemstone-specific orientation program called Gems Camp. While studies have demonstrated that LLCs…
Descriptors: Sense of Community, Communities of Practice, Skill Development, Research Skills
Filomeno, Felipe A. – Metropolitan Universities, 2020
Immigration is one of the most contentious topics in contemporary American politics. This study presents the planning, implementation, and evaluation of a program of faith community dialogues on immigration developed in partnership between a public university, a faith-based group of volunteers, and Catholic congregations. Based on data from…
Descriptors: Immigration, Public Colleges, Catholics, School Community Relationship
Richburg-Hayes, Lashawn; Manno, Michelle; Cerna, Oscar; Lewy, Erika B.; Yang, Edith; Martin-Lawrence, Amanda – MDRC, 2023
Access to college has increased substantially over the last 50 years, but student success--defined as the combination of academic achievement and degree or certificate completion--has largely remained stagnant. The gap between access and success is particularly noteworthy for male Black and Hispanic students, whose college completion rates lag…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, Race, Males, Community Colleges
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Adams, Peter – Composition Studies, 2020
It has been twenty-seven years since a small group of faculty at the Community College of Baltimore County, faced with the discovery that two-thirds of students placed in our upper-level basic writing course never passed first year composition, began the development of the Accelerated Learning Program (ALP), one of the earliest corequisite…
Descriptors: Remedial Instruction, Writing Instruction, Required Courses, Community Colleges
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Beane, Rachel J.; Altermatt, Ellen R.; Iverson, Ellen R.; Macdonald, R. Heather – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2020
The National Association of Geoscience Teachers' "Workshop for Early Career Geoscience Faculty: Teaching, Research, and Managing One's Career" has been offered annually since 1999. The five-day workshop with accompanying web resources employs a "whole faculty" approach to support geoscience faculty members during their…
Descriptors: Workshops, Program Design, Program Effectiveness, Faculty Development
Excelencia in Education, 2018
Every year, "Excelencia" in Education receives submissions for Examples of "Excelencia" from across the country. Our criteria for recognition are focused on a program's success backed by evidence that shows its effectiveness in serving Latino students in higher education. Since 2005, we have recognized over 280 different…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, College Students, Program Effectiveness, Student Needs
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O'Meara, KerryAnn; Griffin, Kimberly A.; Nyunt, Gudrun; Lounder, Andrew – Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2019
Applying the concept of ruling relations--everyday norms, assumptions, logics, and social interactions that structure people's everyday lives (Smith, 1999)--to STEM underrepresented minority (URM) graduate student experiences provides a unique and important way to understand how inequality can be integrated into the graduate student socialization…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Graduate Study, Graduate Students, Socialization
Mathis, Angela B. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
For some community college students, the lack of knowledge about how to succeed in college, combined with institutional deficiencies in the provision of information and instructions to support student success, create barriers to completion. Video, an effective informational and instructional tool growing in use in higher education and popularity…
Descriptors: Two Year College Students, Community Colleges, Video Technology, Teaching Methods
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