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Institutional Characteristics and Expenditures: Their Effects on Graduation Rates at Three Different Types of Community Colleges
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Ishitani, Terrence T.; Kamer, Jacob A. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2020
Apart from awarding associate degrees, two-year colleges (also referred to as associate colleges and community colleges) may vary distinctly in their disciplinary focus. Certain institutions offer more courses geared toward specific career fields, while other two-year institutions offer courses to prepare students to transfer to four-year…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Institutional Characteristics, College Transfer Students, Graduation Rate
Student Engagement and Institutional Graduation Rates: Identifying High-Impact Educational Practices for Community Colleges
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Price, Derek V.; Tovar, Esau – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2014
Philanthropists, researchers, policymakers, and practitioners are increasingly focused on a college completion crisis in the United States. Collectively and independently, they have called for increasing the number of adults with postsecondary certificates and degrees as a national imperative. Using the 2007 administration of the Community College…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Learner Engagement, Graduation Rate, Educational Practices
Adult Learner Graduation Rates at Four U.S. Community Colleges by Prior Learning Assessment Status and Method
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Hayward, Milan S.; Williams, Mitchell R. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2015
The completion agenda demands higher community college graduation rates among adult learners, and prior learning assessment (PLA) is a promising solution. PLA permits students to earn credit for college-level learning acquired outside of higher education and is associated with improved student outcomes. However, little is known regarding community…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Community Colleges, Prior Learning, Adult Students
Precollege Factors and Leading Indicators: Increasing Transfer and Degree Completion in a Community and Technical College System
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Davidson, J. Cody – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2015
Today, community colleges are challenged to maintain their historical identity of open access while increasing student success. This challenge is particularly salient in the context of performance-based funding models. These models create student achievements, which determine institutional levels of state funding. Therefore, these new student…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Finance, Financial Support, Academic Achievement
The Relationship between the Employment of Part-Time Faculty and Student Degree and/or Certificate Completion in Two-Year Community Colleges
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Yu, Hongwei; Campbell, Dale; Mendoza, Pilar – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2015
Prior research studies associated the employment of part-time faculty with student degree and/or certificate completion (Benjamin, 2002; Ehrenberg & Zhang, 2005; Jacoby, 2006; Leslie & Gappa, 2002; Umbach, 2008; Umbach & Wawrzynski, 2005). To date, institutional-level data have been utilized to investigate whether such employment…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Graduation, Associate Degrees, Certification
Dual Enrollment Credit and College Readiness
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Ganzert, Bart – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2014
This causal-comparative study researched the effects of dual enrollment and Huskins Bill course experience on traditional-age North Carolina community college students. The study examined course effects on academic success and graduation rate using quantitative statistical measures including parametric and nonparametric means comparisons. The…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, College Readiness, College Preparation, Comparative Analysis