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Reams-Johnson, Ansa; Delker, Susan – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2016
Student debt has increasingly become an important topic in higher education. Many students, particularly low-income and first-generation college students, do not have a solid understanding of managing personal finances. This becomes further compounded upon entering college, as these students lack the financial acumen to understand the long-term…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Money Management, Two Year College Students, College Programs
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Nagano, Tomonori; Fernandez, Hector – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2016
This article describes the development process of a project for heritage language speakers of Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, and Japanese at a high-enrollment community college in the northeast United States. This pilot project, funded by the Henry Luce Foundation, aimed to empower minority group students through active reinforcement of students'…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, Japanese
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Crisp, Gloria; Taggart, Amanda – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2013
A narrative review was developed to add to the discussion and dissemination of research on community colleges. The review adds to existing work by synthesizing and critiquing the empirical research to date specific to three of the most prevalent programmatic efforts presently seen on community college campuses: (a) learning communities, (b)…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Educational Research, Program Effectiveness