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Struempf, Lawrence – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this research was to investigate characteristics of students in the Complete College America (CCA) cohort at a rural Western community college and the relationship of those characteristics with the students' perception of success. Student graduation and success rates are low at community colleges, nationwide. CCA is actively working…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Correlation
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Smith, Patricia J.; Scott, Richard I. – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2016
Recent research describing the landscape of honors education has demonstrated that honors programs and colleges have become an important and expanding component of American higher education. Since its inception nearly a century ago, collegiate honors education offering campus-wide curricula has spread to more than 1,500 non-profit colleges and…
Descriptors: Demography, Honors Curriculum, Group Membership, Comparative Analysis
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Bureau, Daniel A.; Cole, James S.; McCormick, Alexander C. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2014
This chapter examines the differences between institutions with high and low levels of involvement in service learning as well as the differences between students with high and low levels of involvement. The study shows a correlation between institutional organization and service-learning emphasis and describes, at the student level, correlations…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Institutional Characteristics, Incidence, Student Participation
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Johnson, Bruce K.; Perry, John J.; Petkus, Marie – Journal of Economic Education, 2012
In this article, the authors describe the place of econometrics in undergraduate economics curricula in all American colleges and universities that offer economics majors as listed in the "U.S. News & World Report" "Best Colleges 2010" guide ("U.S. News & World Report" 2009). Data come from online catalogs, departmental Web sites, and online…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Online Catalogs, Web Sites, Lesson Plans
Stone, Geraldine Louise – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study examined the perceived value of leadership development programs (LDPs) provided by continuing education for administrators in colleges and universities. Included in this study were questions about the perceived value of non-credit, credit, and blended (credit and non-credit) programs at the individual, institutional, and higher…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Continuing Education, Leadership Training, Administrators
Ivey, Tracey – ProQuest LLC, 2009
American higher education is striving to create the appropriate academic environment in order to prepare students to be interculturally competent for the realities of the twenty first century, and curriculum internationalization is part of this process. The purpose of this study was to investigate the process by which the curriculum is becoming…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Global Approach, Global Education, Interpersonal Competence