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An Eye toward Equity: Redesigning Course Scheduling within Guided Pathways Reform Efforts
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Sublett, Cameron; Orenstein, Ari – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2023
While community colleges excel at expanding postsecondary enrollments, these institutions often struggle to help students succeed. A chorus of school leaders and policymakers increasingly agree that broad-based, comprehensive organizational change is needed to drastically improve community college student success and equity. The Guided Pathways…
Descriptors: Scheduling, Courses, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students
Do Tennessee Promise and New York's Excelsior Scholarship Help Students with Limited Means Afford College?
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Poutré, Alan; Voight, Mamie – Institute for Higher Education Policy, 2018
The notion of free college is appealing to students and families, particularly those who struggle to manage climbing college prices. The promise of "free" can encourage low-income or first-generation students to enroll in college when the fear of high prices may deter them otherwise. But what does "free" actually mean? Who…
Descriptors: Low Income Students, College Students, Scholarships, Ability
Designing and Scaling Highly Effective Interventions That Produce BIG Improvement: "Counter-Intuitive Lessons from the Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) Project." Conference Paper
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Pogrow, Stanley – National Center on Scaling Up Effective Schools, 2015
There is little discussion in the Design-Based Research (DBR) literature on how to design an intervention that has the potential to be highly effective. The act of designing is usually viewed as engineering something from theory or research on best practices. This paper challenges that universal belief and presents successful design as an…
Descriptors: Intervention, Program Design, Thinking Skills, Creative Thinking
Improving Success, Increasing Access: Bringing HIPs to Open Enrollment Institutions through WAC/WID
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Kester, Jessica; Block, Rebecca; Karda, Margaret Reinfeld; Orndoff, Harold, III – Across the Disciplines, 2016
Today, and historically, the presence of WAC/WID programs in the community college setting remains anemic when compared to Ph.D.-granting institutions. This fact is particularly troubling considering the AAC&U's research on high-impact practices and its correlation with WAC/WID theory and practice. This article empirically investigates the…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, Content Area Writing, Community Colleges, Educational Practices
Creating and Sustaining Community College--University Transfer Partnerships
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Kisker, Carrie B. – Community College Review, 2007
This qualitative study of a community college--university partnership employs network embeddedness theory to examine the processes involved in creating and sustaining partnerships to enhance transfer and baccalaureate attainment. In particular, this article describes the challenges inherent in partnership management and governance, the importance…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Intercollegiate Cooperation, Community Colleges, Universities
An Application of Formative Research in Psychological Education.
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Exum, Herbert A. – Community/Junior College Research Quarterly, 1979
Reports on a study to: (1) design, implement, and evaluate an undergraduate peer-helping program curriculum with the major objective of facilitating cognitive/affective maturity and (2) test the effectiveness and practicality of using formative research in designing and evaluating the program. Discusses findings and implications. (AYC)
Descriptors: Educational Programs, Formative Evaluation, Individual Development, Maturation
Transforming Students' Lives: How "Exploring Transfer" Works, and Why.
Lieberman, Janet; Hungar, Julie Yearsley – 1998
Focusing on the Exploring Transfer (ET) program, in which community college students attend summer university classes, this report describes the history of the program, reviews its main components, and discusses strategies for replicating the model. The first section reviews the origins of ET, indicating that it was first implemented in 1985 by…
Descriptors: College Transfer Students, Community Colleges, Cooperative Programs, Educational Finance