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Dunham, Kate; Negoita, Marian – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2021
In this chapter, we draw on the data collected during our evaluations of six TAACCCT grants to describe the challenges, successes, and transformative effect of adopting a developmental evaluation approach for community college programs.
Descriptors: Data Collection, Program Evaluation, Grants, Community Colleges
Rubin, Beno; Kosloski, Michael F.; Loya, Roberto – Journal of Research in Technical Careers, 2021
The focus of this study was to develop standards that can be used for establishing and assessing high-quality postsecondary trade and industrial programs. A four-round Delphi technique was used to generate consensus regarding program standards. The panel of experts, comprised of postsecondary administrators of trade and industrial programs, was…
Descriptors: Trade and Industrial Education, Postsecondary Education, Standards, College Programs
Perna, Laura W.; Wright-Kim, Jeremy; Leigh, Elaine W. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2021
Although "free tuition" programs are politically popular, some worry that these programs will exacerbate inequity. Scholars note that program outcomes depend on implementation, but few have probed the contextual conditions that contribute to differences in implementation or the consequences of implementation for equity. To address this…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Programs, Equal Education, Program Implementation
Hamza Seidu Wedam – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Black male community college students are underperforming at all levels within higher education compared to their counterparts from all major racial groups in the nation. Reasons for the declining academic performance of Black male community college students include institutional racism, lack of role models, and student isolation. Black male…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, African American Students, Males, Community Colleges
Michelle Hodara; Leah Childress – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2021
Background: Promise programs are place-based financial aid awards that seek to promote postsecondary attainment by covering all or nearly all college tuition costs. In 2015 Oregon became the second state in the country after Tennessee to implement a statewide promise program (Higher Education Coordinating Commission [HECC], 2020). Oregon Promise…
Descriptors: College Programs, Student Financial Aid, Program Effectiveness, Regression (Statistics)
Washington Student Achievement Council, 2023
The dataset used in this report was created by combining Bridge to Finish intervention records, provided by the United Way of King County (UWKC), with student information provided by the State Board for Community and Technical Colleges (SBCTC). The intervention records span the terms from summer 2018 through fall 2021. SBCTC data include these…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Programs, Community Colleges, Technical Institutes
Henderson, Brit; Holman, Daron; Lacalli, Emma – Washington Student Achievement Council, 2023
Higher education offers many benefits to individuals and society--including increased employment opportunities and higher wages--and can help disrupt cycles of intergenerational poverty by improving economic outcomes for those who earn postsecondary credentials. Public community and technical colleges offer a relatively affordable, open-access…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Programs, Community Colleges, Technical Institutes
Caton, Jazmin M. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2019
The research and practice surrounding student service members/veterans has evolved over several decades. With a regeneration of veteran students' enrollment, a need for increased attention to this special student population continues to be an institutional priority, especially for community colleges. The literature suggests that while greater…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Veterans, Two Year College Students, Evidence Based Practice
Jordan, Chet; Picciano, Anthony – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019
The book analyses and evaluates several key community college reform programs that emerged after the Recession of 2008 and as a result of major initiatives in California, New York, Tennessee, Florida, Connecticut and Wisconsin. Because of the economic downturn in the early 21st Century, an already eroding financial base for public higher education…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Change, Economic Climate, Program Implementation
Sommo, Colleen; Cullinan, Dan; Manno, Michelle – MDRC, 2018
While the United States has made strides in increasing college access among low-income students, college completion has remained low. Graduation rates are particularly low at the nation's community colleges, which enroll a disproportionate percentage of low-income and nontraditional college students. Seeking to address this problem, in 2014 three…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Low Income Students
Rauner, Mary; Perna, Laura W.; Kanter, Martha J. – WestEd, 2018
College Promise programs are thriving in California, and with the continued growth comes a need to understand the features of these diverse efforts and the perspectives of the communities in which they exist. In 2018, the James Irvine Foundation supported California College Promise Project (CCPP) at WestEd to study the College Promise landscape in…
Descriptors: College Programs, Program Descriptions, Paying for College, Student Financial Aid
Arambula, Raul; LeBlanc, Leslie – California Community Colleges, Chancellor's Office, 2018
In this report, the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office (Chancellor's Office) presents its findings, evaluations and analysis of the success and efficacy of the face-to-face community college programs that are being offered to incarcerated students inside California state prisons. The report also discusses barriers and challenges…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions
Frank, Janet C.; Altpeter, Mary; Damron-Rodriguez, JoAnn; Driggers, Joann; Lachenmayr, Susan; Manning, Colleen; Martinez, Dana M.; Price, Rachel M.; Robinson, Patricia – Health Education & Behavior, 2014
Current public health and aging service agency personnel have little training in gerontology, and virtually no training in evidence-based health promotion and disease management programs for older adults. These programs are rapidly becoming the future of our community-based long-term care support system. The purpose of this project was to develop…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Labor Force, Gerontology, Community Colleges
McKinney, Lyle – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2010
Before devoting institutional dollars to a full-scale program evaluation that may be costly and time intensive, a preevaluation strategy known as evaluability assessment can be used to determine whether a program meets the minimal preconditions necessary for the results of a full-scale evaluation to be meaningful and useful to college…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Program Evaluation, School Holding Power, African American Students
Bers, Trudy – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2011
The purpose of this article is to identify key ways in which program review provides information and documentation demonstrating that a community college is effective. This is accomplished through both the program review process (the means by which reviews are conducted) and the product (program review reports and supporting evidence). The various…
Descriptors: Evidence, Program Evaluation, Institutional Evaluation, Program Effectiveness