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Bethany Lewis; Daniel Rossman; Rafael Pasillas; Rebecca Klein-Collins – Council for Adult and Experiential Learning, 2024
The Latino and Adult Student Success (LASS) Academy is a multi-year initiative administered by CAEL (the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning) focused on supporting Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) in their efforts to improve outcomes for adult and Latino adult learners. In its first phase, from 2018 through 2021, the LASS Academy…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Adult Students, Universities, Technical Assistance
Diamond, John; O'Donoghue, Rebekah; Alonzo, Erick; Barman, Sukanya – MDRC, 2023
Transferring to a four-year institution is an important pathway to student success. Many students who enroll in community college intend to transfer to a four-year institution and subsequently earn a bachelor's degree. However, few students ultimately do, with low-income students transferring at lower rates than their peers. The Texas Transfer…
Descriptors: Grants, College Transfer Students, Pilot Projects, Universities
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Marriott, Lisa K.; Link, Aaron Raz; Anitori, Roberto; Blackwell, Ernest; Blas, Andrea; Brock, Jennifer; Burke, Tracey; Burrows, Julia A.; Cabrera, Alexis P.; Helsham, Derek; Liban, Lorna B.; Mackiewicz, Marilyn R.; Maruyama, Mika; Milligan-Myhre, Kathryn C. A.; Pangelinan, Perry J. C.; Hattori-Uchima, Margaret; Reed, Russell; Simon, Benjamin E.; Solomon, Beylul; Trinidad, Alma M. O.; Wyatt, Letisha R.; Covarrubia, Alonso Delgado; Zell, Adrienne; Adrienne, Thomas E.; Morris, Cynthia; Crespo, Carlos J. – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2021
Research experience provides critical training for new biomedical research scientists. Students from underrepresented populations studying science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) are increasingly recruited into research pathways to diversify STEM fields. However, support structures outside of research settings designed to help…
Descriptors: Biomedicine, Medical Research, Disproportionate Representation, STEM Education
Complete College America, 2022
In December 2020, Complete College America (CCA), in partnership with the Jessie Ball duPont Fund, launched a rigorous 12- to 18-month project designed to increase student success and completion rates at small liberal arts institutions. The focus was on building and enhancing support systems for first-generation and Pell-eligible students, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Program Descriptions, Small Colleges, Liberal Arts
Quintero, Amanda; Buhl, Geoffrey; Pajka Hasendonckx, Michelle; Inouye, Carolyn; Ramirez, Joshua – Liberal Education, 2019
The California State University Channel Islands (CSUCI) campus of 1930s Spanish and Mission-style architecture has around 7,100 students and is truly local-serving: 52 percent of all students enrolled in fall 2018 were from Ventura County, 26 percent came from neighboring Los Angeles County, and most other students hailed from other nearby…
Descriptors: Outreach Programs, College Attendance, Hispanic American Students, Counties
WestEd, 2017
The California Community Foundation's Promises That Count Initiative supports the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of College Promise efforts in Los Angeles County (L.A. County). Promises That Count activities will include research, technical assistance, the development of a professional learning community, and a series of…
Descriptors: Program Descriptions, Definitions, Educational Legislation, State Legislation
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Stewart, Allison; Moffat, Meridith; Travers, Heather; Cummins, Douglas – Journal of College Student Psychotherapy, 2015
Research indicates an increasing number of college students are experiencing severe psychological problems that are impacting their academic performance. However, many colleges and universities operate with constrained budgets that limit their ability to provide adequate counseling services for their student population. Moreover, accessing…
Descriptors: Counseling Services, Partnerships in Education, College Students, Community Colleges
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Messinger, Lori – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2014
This article is a case study of a 2 + 2 undergraduate social work degree program developed by a regional urban community college and a social work program at a midwestern university. This program brings the undergraduate social work degree program from the university's main campus to the community college campus, using university instructors to…
Descriptors: Social Work, Articulation (Education), Case Studies, Bachelors Degrees
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Cope, Kevin L. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2012
"Surprise" is a word and concept seldom associated with higher education policy or with one of its most demanding projects, the development of a statewide articulation and transfer program. Legislators who mandate articulation enterprises and officials who care for these behemoths present themselves as thoughtful managers who cherish…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Articulation (Education), Transfer Programs, Community Colleges
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Carroll, Vanessa G.; Harris-Bondima, Michelle; Norris, Kathleen Kennedy; Williams, Carolane – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2010
Baltimore City Community College (BCCC) leveraged heightened student interest and enrollment in the sciences and allied health with Maryland's world-leading biotechnology industry to build a community college life sciences learning and research center right on the University of Maryland, Baltimore's downtown BioPark campus. The BCCC Life Sciences…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Biotechnology, Learning Experience, Biological Sciences
McMurtrie, Beth – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
The Fulbright Program is one of the most successful fellowship programs around. About 1,500 students and 1,300 scholars from the United States and abroad are studying and working on Fulbrights this academic year. But the U.S. State Department, which oversees the program, has been concerned in recent years about the lack of diversity among American…
Descriptors: Fellowships, Student Diversity, Foreign Countries, Student Recruitment
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James, Delores C. S.; Wirth, Christopher K. – Health Educator, 2010
Underage drinking is a widespread national problem that requires continuous attention from different agencies and groups in the community. This project was funded by a 50-member local coalition that included groups such as researchers, faith-based organizations, law enforcement, parents, schools, community college, university, local businesses,…
Descriptors: Prevention, Community Attitudes, Focus Groups, Drinking
Hales, Brent D. – Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs, 2009
The Mid-South Region of Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi as a long history of pervasive poverty and educational underachievement. According to the U.S. Census Bureau (2008), the poverty level of residents in the Mid-South Region is higher than the national average. Consequently, many of the region's best and brightest students of all…
Descriptors: Economic Opportunities, Brain Drain, Entrepreneurship, Economic Development
Kirby, Dale – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2007
There is no formal mandate for or tradition of inter-sectoral collaboration between community colleges and universities in Ontario. Following a regulatory change introduced by the College of Nurses of Ontario in 1998, all Registered Nurse educational preparation was restructured to the baccalaureate degree level through province-wide adoption of a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Organizational Culture, Nursing, Nurses
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Spalter, Anne Morgan; van Dam, Andries – Theory Into Practice, 2008
Like other literacies (textual literacy, numeracy), digital visual literacy (DVL) is the ability both to create and to understand certain types of information, in this case visual materials created with a computer. DVL is now essential in many daily life and workplace tasks, from looking critically at newspaper images or TV evening news to using a…
Descriptors: Visual Literacy, Media Literacy, Computer Literacy, Educational Principles
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