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Mary B. Walkins – Teaching and Learning Excellence through Scholarship, 2021
Can using mindfulness/contemplative practices help students become mindful, focused, and present in the mathematics classroom? In this study, mindfulness/contemplative practices were used in the mathematics classroom to determine if students were encouraged to be mindful, focused, and present or engaged in problem solving. During class time,…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction, Problem Solving
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Chaddrick D. James-Gallaway; Asif Wilson – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2024
Institutes of higher education have adopted equity-minded frameworks as potential solutions to dismantle the permanence of racism within them. Yet, little empirical evidence documents the outcomes of these frameworks, which often include professional learning experiences for faculty and staff. Drawing on critical race discourse analyses of…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Racism, Higher Education, Power Structure
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Mecoli, Noelle A.; Gumbs, Nikkia; Ward, Vicki; Willcox, Abby; Haynes, Cliff – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2019
This study examines staff development practices in community college student affairs. Nineteen interviews were conducted with supervisors in a variety of departments at community colleges. We found that supervisors frequently used multiple practices such as conducting staff meetings, attending institutional training, or viewing topical webinars…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Student Personnel Workers, Staff Development, Teaching Methods
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Asfaw, Abraham; Blais, Alexandre; Brown, Kenneth R.; Candelaria, Jonathan; Cantwell, Christopher; Carr, Lincoln D.; Combes, Joshua; Debroy, Dripto M.; Donohue, John M.; Economou, Sophia E.; Edwards, Emily; Fox, Michael F. J.; Girvin, Steven M.; Ho, Alan; Hurst, Hilary M.; Jacob, Zubin; Johnson, Blake R.; Johnston-Halperin, Ezekiel; Joynt, Robert; Kapit, Eliot; Klein-Seetharaman, Judith; Laforest, Martin; Lewandowski, H. J.; Lynn, Theresa W.; McRae, Corey Rae H.; Merzbacher, Celia; Michalakis, Spyridon; Narang, Prineha; Oliver, William D.; Palsberg, Jens; Pappas, David P.; Raymer, Michael G.; Reilly, David J.; Saffman, Mark; Searles, Thomas A.; Shapiro, Jeffrey H.; Singh, Chandralekha – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2022
Contribution: A roadmap is provided for building a quantum engineering education program to satisfy U.S. national and international workforce needs. Background: The rapidly growing quantum information science and engineering (QISE) industry will require both quantum-aware and quantum-proficient engineers at the bachelor's level. Research Question:…
Descriptors: Program Development, Engineering Education, Labor Needs, Quantum Mechanics
McKenzie, Shannon Brooke – Online Submission, 2022
This scholarly research project details the creation of a virtual 8-week mindfulness meditation workshop for community college students. The purpose of this action research convergent parallel mixed methods study was to examine the effects and impacts of an online mindfulness meditation college student group on student stress coping, resilience,…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Coping, Academic Achievement, Resilience (Psychology)
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Lamb, Christina; Uong, Joseph; Haynes, Cliff; Coley, Eric; Valdes, Lynne; Wendel, Douglas – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2018
Supervisory skills play an important role in individual staff development and the achievement of organizational objectives. These skills are vital to professionals in community college student affairs, who support a diverse student population and a wide array of programming. This study was conducted to describe the kind of supervisory training…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Supervision, Workshops, Student Personnel Services
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Kras, Nicole – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2021
Ecotherapy-based experiences have been shown to provide multiple benefits such as improved cognitive functioning, increased overall well-being and improved mental and physical health. Few, if any studies have considered the benefits of providing these types of experiences for urban community college students. This pilot study introduces an eco-art…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Urban Areas, Two Year College Students, Workshops
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Miller, Benjamin Lawrance; Rochford, Regina A. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2021
Developmental interventions for reading and writing often take place at community colleges during the winter or summer. These brief, intersession workshops are examples of compressed acceleration, as they give students the opportunity to exit developmental coursework and enroll in credit bearing courses the following semester. As college readiness…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Vacation Programs, Reading Instruction, Writing Instruction
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Carlson, Erika R.; Craigo, Leslie; Hoontis, Peter P.; Jaffe, Elisabeth; McGee, Lynn; Sayegh, James – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2021
The gaps in graduation and retention rates between ethnic and gender groups continue to be a foremost area of focus at Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC), The City University of New York (CUNY). Equity and inclusion is also a critical concern as it relates to faculty and staff. At BMCC, a college-wide initiative, Designing for Success,…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Graduation Rate, Academic Persistence, Racial Differences
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Lowenthal, Patrick R.; Gooding, Megan; Shreaves, Dana; Kepka, Jennifer – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2019
There is an increased demand for online courses and programs. As a result, institutions are experimenting with different ways to train and support faculty to teach online. There is very little recent literature, though, describing the various ways that institutions actually train faculty to teach online. In this article, we report on the results…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Electronic Learning, Faculty Development, Training Methods
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Miller, Lisa – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2019
This study expanded on previous models that looked primarily at student and support factors related to student retention and examined other stakeholder group functions not previously reviewed in relation to student retention. The research question assumed that greater faculty participation in campus decision-making and faculty satisfaction would…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Role, Academic Persistence, Teacher Influence
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Maier, Mark; Chi, W. Edward – Journal of Economic Education, 2016
The principal investigator of a National Science Foundation project, "Economics at Community Colleges," surveyed community college economics faculty and organized workshops, webinars, and regional meetings to address community college faculty isolation from new ideas in economics and economics instruction. Survey results, combined with…
Descriptors: Economics Education, Community Colleges, College Instruction, College Faculty
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Visher, Mary G.; Mayer, Alexander K.; Johns, Michael; Rudd, Timothy; Levine, Andrew; Rauner, Mary – Regional Educational Laboratory West, 2016
Community college students often lack an academic plan to guide their choices of coursework to achieve their educational goals, in part because counseling departments typically lack the capacity to advise students at scale. This randomized controlled trial tests the impact of guaranteed access to one of two alternative counseling sessions (group…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Randomized Controlled Trials, Two Year College Students, Educational Counseling
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Eddy, Pamela L.; Hao, Yi; Markiewicz, Chris; Iverson, Ellen – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2019
Faculty development is often under-emphasized in community colleges (or 2-year colleges; 2YCs). This research reports on data collected from a National Science Foundation (NSF) project involving 2YC geoscience faculty as "change agents." We studied 22 geoscience faculty involved in a NSF funded longitudinal project that focused on three…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Change Agents, Adult Students, Situated Learning
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Jung, Young A.; Choi, Sungshim; Shin, Hye Young; Steeley, Sherry; Haley, Marjorie Hall – NECTFL Review, 2022
This study examines the perceptions of Korean language teachers on the classroom practice of embedding contemporary Korean pop culture into classrooms for effective world language instruction. While integrating culture in language classrooms has been practiced for decades, Korean teachers in this study expressed a lack of confidence in designing…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Popular Culture, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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