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Melissa R. Colangelo; Melanie Graham; Bhavika Sicka – Inquiry: The Journal of the Virginia Community Colleges, 2024
If community colleges are to remain relevant, they must be future-oriented, and responsive to demographic and labor force shifts. The Get Skilled, Get a Job, Give Back initiative (G3) was implemented during the 2021-22 academic year to retain economically disadvantaged students, improve community college completion, and help students graduate into…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Community Colleges, Human Capital, Job Skills
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Matson, Jane – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1977
Continual monitoring of the community is required if community colleges wish to offer meaningful community-based programs. The college must also constantly evaluate the extent to which it achieves its community program objectives. (JDS)
Descriptors: Community Benefits, Community Colleges, Community Education, Community Programs
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Micek, Sidney S.; Cooper, Edward M. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1978
Conceptualizes an approach for assessing community impact of community-based community college programs which considers the multiple communities which are potentially impacted; the educational, economic, sociocultural, political and technological impacts which are possible; the different ways of obtaining community-impact data; and the need for…
Descriptors: Community Benefits, Community Colleges, Community Education, Community Study
College of the Canyons, Valencia, CA. – 1990
In November 1989, the College of the Canyons (CC) in Valencia, California, conducted a community survey of Santa Clarita Valley to determine residents' satisfaction with CC; use of CC services and facilities; perceptions of the value and performance of CC in six functional areas; perceptions of the quality of education; attitudes about fees, the…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Benefits, Community Characteristics, Community Colleges
Parkersburg Community Coll., WV. – 1979
The activities of the Industrial Campus Project (Ind-Camp), designed by Parkersburg Community College to provide business/industry plant workers with access to educational opportunities directly at the scene of their employment, are described in this report. This final report, covering activity from January to June 1978, describes project…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Vocational Education, Community Benefits, Community Colleges
Cicco and Associates, Murrysville, PA. – 1979
A retrospective comparative analysis of data collected between 1975 and 1979 was undertaken at Westmoreland County Community College (WCCC) to quantitatively determine the impact of WCCC's developmental education program on: (1) the persistence and academic performance of underprepared students; (2) the college's financial situation; and (3) the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Community Benefits, Community Colleges
Oakton Community Coll., Morton Grove, IL. – 1980
A community impact study was conducted by Oakton Community College (OCC) in Fall 1979 to determine how representative samples of six constituent groups learned about OCC; the benefits they perceived in having a community college in the area; their awareness of and satisfaction with OCC programs and services; and ways in which OCC could be…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Business, College Programs, College Role
Oakton Community Coll., Morton Grove, IL. – 1980
Materials are provided that relate to a community impact study that was conducted by Oakton Community College (OCC) in Fall 1979 to determine how members of six constituent groups learned about OCC; the benefits they perceived in having a community college in the area; their awareness of and satisfaction with OCC programs and services; and ways in…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Business, College Programs, College Role