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Direct linkKelley, Zachary L. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
As access to higher education has continuously risen throughout the second half of the twentieth century, community college student success has not kept pace. Within this climate, institutions look to cost-effective initiatives and programs to encourage student success in order to produce more certificate and degree earners. While many first-year…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, First Year Seminars, Academic Persistence
Peer reviewedNguyenvoges, Shelbee R. – Comparative Professional Pedagogy, 2015
The purpose of this case study research aims to bridge gaps in the current research by exploring how both veteran and nonveteran adult and higher education (AHE) learners make sense of their educational journey and identity, in and out of the classroom, during their first-year experience (FYE) course at a community college (CC) in the Southwest…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Experience, Critical Incidents Method, Self Concept
Download full textMiekley, Joshua P. – CATESOL Journal, 2014
Critical-thinking skills help to prepare adult education students for a successful transition to college degree programs and for job advancement. Yet fostering critical thinking poses a challenge to ESL instructors. Brookfield (2012) provides a way forward for adult educators when he explains that the crux of critical thinking is to discover one's…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Adult Students, Community Colleges, Writing Instruction
Bohnet, Kimberly Jean – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This dissertation describes the process of creating a guidebook that developmental education administrators can use to build their capacity as leaders, learners, and program planners. The guidebook is the product of a qualitative study designed to better understand how community college administrators who have program planning responsibilities for…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year Colleges, College Administration, Administrators
Asselin, Martha Jo – ProQuest LLC, 2012
With the rising number of major crises on college campuses today (Security on Campus Inc., 2009), institutions of higher education can benefit from understanding of how social networks may be used in times of emergency. What is currently known about the usage of social networks is not integral to the current practices of crisis management that are…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Critical Incidents Method, Guidelines, Information Dissemination
Ayers, David F. – Community College Review, 2009
Critical discourse analysis was employed to examine the narratives collected from 40 community college administrators who were asked to recount their experience in an event, activity, or decision that challenged their values. The analysis yielded three findings. First, contradictions emerged between the administrators' educational and professional…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Discourse Analysis, Administrator Attitudes, Conflict of Interest
