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Direct linkCharles W. Gunnels IV; Jaclyn Chastain; Shawn Brunelle; Anna Carlin; Thomas M. Cimarusti; Mary Crone-Romanovski; Richard W. Coughlin; Carolyn Culbertson; Jason Elek; April Felton; Shawn Felton; Debra A. Giambo; Katie Johnson; Shawn Keller; Dawn Kirby; Santiago Luaces; Derek Lura; Peter Reuter; Tunde Szecsi; Rachel Tait-Ripperdan; Scott Vanselow; Judy Wynekoop; Hulya Julie Yazici; Melodie H. Eichbauer – Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research, 2024
Although higher education aims to provide holistic learning and career preparation, there is growing skepticism about its value, with segments of the public scrutinizing concerns about tuition, student loan debt, and job prospects. Between 2015 and 2020, Florida Gulf Coast University implemented a quality enhancement plan (FGCUScholars) that…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Research, Career Readiness, Student Attitudes
Patrick D. McDermott – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This qualitative research study addressed a notable gap in existing literature by examining the perceptions and relationship between experiential learning and college and career readiness within the homeschooling context. Purposeful sampling was used to recruit 13 homeschooled students from northwestern Florida. To gather data, indepth,…
Descriptors: Home Schooling, Experiential Learning, College Readiness, Career Readiness
L. Danielle Roberts-Dahm; Lyman L. Dukes III – Journal of Inclusive Postsecondary Education, 2024
This study examined components of inclusive postsecondary education programs for students with intellectual disability correlated with employment upon program exit, through secondary analyses of student-level data obtained from the Transition and Postsecondary Programs for Students with Intellectual Disability (TPSID) National Coordinating Center…
Descriptors: College Students, Inclusion, Intellectual Disability, Education Work Relationship
Forrest, Allison – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Student-athletes have many commitments during their college experience. Their role as student-athletes impacts their career readiness. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) promotes the fact that most student-athletes will not become professional athletes. However, they do little to help prepare student-athletes for life after…
Descriptors: Student Athletes, Team Sports, College Athletics, College Students
Thomas Gauthier – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2024
Purpose: American Community colleges are vital to the country's economic mobility and are leaders in developing and facilitating career, technical, and workforce education. This study explored employer perspectives on employees' common and specialized skills across industries in the United States. Design/methodology/approach: Employers were…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Job Skills, Education Work Relationship, Career Readiness
Download full textAdvance CTE: State Leaders Connecting Learning to Work, 2024
Whether through transfer and articulation, through grants that bring disconnected learners back to higher education or through short-term credentialing and applied bachelor's degrees, four-year institutions remain integral to career pathways systems beyond the traditional degree pathway. They also have a clear role in supporting all learners,…
Descriptors: School Role, Career Pathways, Career Readiness, College Readiness
Ehrmann, Stephen C. – Liberal Education, 2021
American colleges and universities need to ensure that the students of today and the future receive better career preparation than they are currently getting: only six in ten employers say that recent graduates have the capabilities needed to succeed in entry-level roles, according to the Association of American Colleges and Universities' 2021…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Educational Quality, Access to Education, Paying for College
Gauthier, Thomas – Career and Technical Education Research, 2022
Community colleges are the leader in facilitating career and technical education (CTE) and workforce development (WD) programs. However, employers who hire recent graduates of these programs question the quality of the education provided. This qualitative study used a focus group comprised of manufacturing and engineering professionals in Florida…
Descriptors: Manufacturing Industry, Professional Personnel, Engineering, Technical Occupations
Tracey Dowling – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The increasing shift for higher education institutions to recognize career readiness as an institutional priority (Cruzvergara et al., 2018) is leading the need to identify ways to scale student engagement in at least one high-impact practice (HIP), such as experiential learning opportunities, prior to graduation (Huang et al., 2018).…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Experiential Learning, Interdisciplinary Approach, State Universities
Ohlson, Matthew A.; Shope, Shane C.; Johnson, Jerry D. – Rural Educator, 2020
Faculty from two universities in Florida and Ohio designed, developed, and implemented programs to work with youth from their respective service regions to support college and career readiness initiatives. Both programs were directed by university faculty and utilized university resources to support K-12 students' career development skills. In…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Rural Schools, College Readiness, Career Readiness
Deep Insights: Redesigning Dual Enrollment as a Purposeful Pathway to College and Career Opportunity
Fink, John; Griffin, Sarah; Tulloch, Aurely Garcia; Jenkins, Davis; Fay, Maggie; Ramirez, Cat; Schudde, Lauren; Steiger, Jessica – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2023
Dual enrollment equity pathways (DEEP) is a research-based framework for rethinking dual enrollment as a more equitable on-ramp to college programs of study that lead to family-supporting, career-path jobs for students who might not otherwise pursue education after college. The DEEP approach involves community colleges and K-12 schools partnering…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, High School Students, Elementary Secondary Education, Community Colleges
Hernandez, Vanessa Gonzalez – Research Services, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, 2018
Since 2015, M-DCPS has emphasized the importance of Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics (STEAM) education in students' college and career preparedness through its school designation program. Schools must meet a rigorous set of criteria in integrations, operational criteria, and academics to receive a STE(A)M designation. The…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Art Education, College Readiness, Career Readiness
Mokher, Christine G.; Rosenbaum, James E.; Gable, Alexis; Ahearn, Caitlin; Jacobson, Louis – Phi Delta Kappan, 2019
Florida's College and Career Readiness Initiative (FCCRI) required schools to administer a community college placement test to 11th-grade students and enroll students who did not pass in a college readiness course. Christine Mokher, James Rosenbaum, Alexis Gable, Caitlin Ahearn, and Louis Jacobson surveyed teachers of the course and found that,…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Career Readiness, High School Students, Grade 11
Hayes, Shannon – ACT, Inc., 2020
Each year, ACT releases data on the most recent class of high school graduates. In addition to providing an objective and standardized measurement of readiness used in college admissions decisions, the data provided by the ACT® test can be used to inform states, districts, schools, teachers, parents, and students themselves about students'…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, High School Students, College Readiness, Career Readiness
Green-Weir, Robbya R.; Anderson, David; Carpenter, Robert – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2021
Soft-skill competencies are essential for successful careers. Yet, research shows that graduates often lack soft skill competencies. Reasons may be there is no set list of soft skills, soft skills are subjective, and they are challenging to teach and assess. Historically, there has been inconsistent funding for soft skill training in the U.S. for…
Descriptors: Soft Skills, Job Skills, Skill Development, Competency Based Education
