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Direct linkNicole Kras; Tom Martin; Tara Bahl; Derek Tesser – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2025
Implementing nature-based learning (NBL) experiences in community college courses is an emerging area of exploration in higher education. This article describes how a faculty group was formed at an urban community college with the intention to explore how nature exposure impacts learning for community college students, with faculty members from…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Community Colleges, College Faculty, Outdoor Education
Download full textRadhakrishnan Palaniswamy – Teaching and Learning Excellence through Scholarship, 2023
The Teaching Squares Program involves the formation of a three or four member group of educators from different departments or disciplines. The diversity in knowledge and experience helps to promote cross-disciplinary learning and professional growth among teachers. Once the group has been formed, the teachers select a class they will each teach…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Cooperative Learning, Faculty Development, College Faculty
Aykol, Ece; Kapetanakos, Demetrios; Lehman, Regina – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2021
This article discusses and models an all-day, low-stakes, high-impact, interdisciplinary, Global Learning program at LaGuardia Community College which successfully promoted global citizenship.
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Global Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Citizenship
Nicholas Ryan Kent – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Leadership development programs offer the opportunity for an organization to invest within to identify and support the next generation of leaders. Community colleges are complex organizations whose survival depends on competent leaders who can address the organization's business and academic needs. The academia and departmental isolation culture…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Community Colleges, Leadership Qualities, Program Effectiveness
Nicholas, Heidi; Dorsey, Tim – Strategic Enrollment Management Quarterly, 2021
Collaborative decision-making and shared responsibility across departments can be messy and time consuming. However, working collaboratively in a well-constructed cross-functional team (CFT) can create a culture of self-responsibility and accountability and improve institutional practices. The following paper will describe a successful model for…
Descriptors: Participative Decision Making, Responsibility, Accountability, Community Colleges
Guth, Douglas J. – Community College Journal, 2022
While campus activism dates back decades, today's community colleges are generating additional dialogue via interdisciplinary arts programming. This article highlights various art programs throughout the United States, including a multidisciplinary video for suicide awareness, a mural that is represented of the school's diversity, and a poetry…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Interdisciplinary Approach, Art Activities, Suicide
Jeremy Dennis – ProQuest LLC, 2023
In adult education, the term "interdisciplinarity" is often treated as an agent for transforming teaching, learning, and research. This appreciation of the concept proliferates despite the fact that its actualization often supports competing interpretations and practices. Many adult educators are unaware of the distinctions made among…
Descriptors: Postmodernism, Adult Education, Educational Philosophy, Educational Practices
Bayerl, Katie – Jobs for the Future, 2023
How can two-year colleges ensure that all students can access quality career navigation opportunities that inform their studies and position them for meaningful, family-sustaining work? That is the challenge being addressed at Boston's Bunker Hill Community College through a college-wide initiative known as Ethnographies of Work (EoW). The…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Programs, Program Implementation, Career Development
Henri Santos; Caitlin Anzelone; Erica Gonzales; Hyun Deog Seo – MDRC, 2024
One major challenge that institutions face when launching transformation efforts is that they operate in "silos," meaning that they have separate departments--for example, student services, financial aid, and advising--that operate independently with little communication or coordination. Many successful transformation efforts include a…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, Interdisciplinary Approach, Teamwork
McNair, Lucy R.; Garrison-Fletcher, Leigh – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2022
Our article presents the development, conceptual toolkit, and preliminary observations of an interdisciplinary Language Across the Curriculum (LAC) professional development seminar at our urban community college in Queens, New York. Although innovative in promoting inclusion and diversity, the college reflects a common monolingual 'Standard…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Urban Areas, Language of Instruction, Interdisciplinary Approach
Bowman, Peter J. – Journal of Political Science Education, 2020
An academic career at a community college is in a number of ways quite different from a career at a four-year university. From the emphasis on teaching and pedagogy to the absence of the "publish or perish" imperative (at least in most parts of the country), community college professors often navigate an array of challenges different…
Descriptors: Political Science, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Tenure
Shippen, Nichole Marie – Journal of Political Science Education, 2020
Maintaining an active research agenda while teaching full-time at a community college can be daunting, but with institutional support for scholarly research by way of course release it is possible. This personal reflection offers up evidence of institutional support from a variety of sources within the public university system of New York City,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Faculty, Teacher Responsibility, Teacher Researchers
Esquibel, Joseph; Rook, Deborah L.; LoRe, Sondra M.; Starnes, John H.; Miller, Jillian M.; Buntz, Jennifer G.; Hugo, Alys; Nieuwsma, Christianne B.; Seitz, Heather; Bissell, Ahrash; Gross, Louis; Kiser, Stacey; Lenhart, Suzanne; Mills, Michael A.; Neuhauser, Claudia; Corriette, Irene; Prescott, Sarah; Jenkins, Kristin P.; Karpakakunjaram, Vedham – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2023
Mastery of quantitative skills is increasingly critical for student success in life sciences, but few curricula adequately incorporate quantitative skills. Quantitative Biology at Community Colleges (QB@CC) is designed to address this need by building a grassroots consortium of community college faculty to (1) engage in interdisciplinary…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Instruction, College Science, Community Colleges
Meyer, Rika; Sohani, Madhura; Alvares, Stacy M.; Hunt, Katharine; Sciabarra, Christina; Gapinskim, Jacqueline Goeres – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2023
Undergraduate research experiences have been widely demonstrated as a beneficial and essential component of the college experience. However, many community colleges face barriers and lack of support in implementing such research programs, which means a significant number of community college students miss out on these impactful experiences.…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Program Effectiveness, Community Colleges, Academic Aspiration
Sujung Kim, Editor; Leigh Garrison-Fletcher, Editor; Kaysi Holman, Editor – Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2024
This book provides concrete examples of humanizing collectivist critical pedagogy, which creates a learning space with students, values their mutual-agency, and invites them to play a leading role in remaking higher education. It redefines student success to include an understanding of positionality, macro social structures, and agency. Each class…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Collectivism, Social Structure, Class Activities
