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Direct linkÁngel de Jesus González; Elizabeth Holcombe; Adrianna Kezar – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2025
Community colleges are positioned in an ecosystem of complex organizational conditions and have a multitude of external factors influencing their context. This context demands systemic change work that is complex, which requires community college leaders to be adaptable to their organizational landscape. In this article, we provide key insights…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Educational Change, Community Colleges, Transformational Leadership
Download full textColin Hill; Kayla Warner; Colleen Sommo – MDRC, 2025
Obtaining a degree from a community college is a strong pathway to numerous career opportunities for students from low-income backgrounds. Unfortunately, graduation rates from community colleges are often very low, so many students do not reap the benefits of a degree. With the goal of increasing graduation rates, three community colleges in…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Graduation Rate, Acceleration (Education), Models
Robin R. Donovan – ProQuest LLC, 2024
A practice that dates back centuries, apprenticeship is a workforce development model that has gained recent attention in the American higher education system. The researcher conducted a review of existing literature that included apprenticeships in higher education and other models of community college workforce development. Existing literature…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Urban Schools, Apprenticeships, Labor Force Development
Zach Barricklow; Pamela L. Eddy; Audrey J. Jaeger – Belk Center for Community College Leadership and Research, 2025
Disruptions in today's higher education landscape require a different approach to community college leadership. Fostering innovation demands leaders adopt practices that seed an innovative mindset and build an innovative culture more resilient to changing circumstances. Using the Innovator's DNA model provides actionable strategies for…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Innovation, Educational Change, Leadership Styles
Atcha, Haroon – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2022
Proper institutional planning requires accurate enrollment forecasts. This is especially true in the community college context given open enrollment policies and reliance on public funds. Despite the importance of this task, enrollment forecasts are relatively disconnected from theoretical advances in the study of retention and enrollment. In this…
Descriptors: Enrollment Projections, Models, Community Colleges, Educational Theories
Dodson, Rachel Ann Sullivan – ProQuest LLC, 2023
During declining revenue, community college leaders may be unable to balance their budgets effectively. Community college managers who fail to balance budgets negatively impact a college's financial sustainability. Grounded in Burn's transactional leadership theory, the purpose of this qualitative single case study was to explore strategies…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Administration, Budgeting, Administrator Role
Jooyoung Voeller; Chris Zirkle – Career and Technical Education Research, 2025
Apprenticeships have recently gained renewed attention as an effective means to prepare individuals for the world of work even though this method of instruction dates back to 1937 with the passage of the National Apprenticeship Act. An even more recent development is the growth of degree apprenticeships, the aligning of postsecondary degree…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Technical Institutes, Community Colleges, Associate Degrees
Dana René Matthews – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The popularity and use of online learning are continuing to grow. Faculty members must be available to teach online courses for institutions to offer online education. However, some instructors do not consider online learning a viable substitute for face-to-face instruction. This qualitative interpretive phenomenological study was conducted to…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Online Courses
Seana Chaves; Valerie Lee; Sarah Morris; Ann Reinecke; Austin Tome – Learning Assistance Review, 2023
In response to the COVID-19 crisis, embedded tutoring became a popular model to address the need for additional student support in higher education. Four U.S. community colleges collaborated to develop a successful embedded tutoring model that provides a framework and definition for embedded tutoring and training for tutors and participating…
Descriptors: Tutoring, Models, Community Colleges, Training
Cyrette Saunier; Susan Scrivener; Austin Slaughter; Noor Amanullah; Sukanya Barman; Cynthia Miller; Colleen Sommo; Erick Alonzo, Contributor; Osvaldo Avila, Contributor; Katie Beal, Contributor; Parker Cellura, Contributor; Ben Cohen, Contributor; Stanley Dai, Contributor; Hannah Dalporto, Contributor; Claudia Escobar, Contributor; Colin Hill, Contributor; Marco Lepe, Contributor; Tiffany Morton, Contributor; Rebekah O’Donoghue, Contributor; Vivianna Plancarte, Contributor; Alyssa Ratledge, Contributor; Elena Serna-Wallender, Contributor; Andrea Vasquez, Contributor; Rae Walker, Contributor; Michelle Ware, Contributor; Kayla Warner, Contributor; Melissa Wavelet, Contributor; Michael Weiss, Contributor; Diane Wren, Contributor – MDRC, 2025
Community colleges and broad-access universities (those with minimally selective admissions policies) provide an opportunity for students across the United States to attain postsecondary degrees and achieve economic mobility. However, graduation rates from such colleges are often low and there are many obstacles that can be difficult to…
Descriptors: Intervention, Academic Persistence, Program Development, Costs
Abdullah Alshawi – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The digital age and global technological advancement have brought about unprecedented changes in a wide range of global sectors. The educational sector, as a sector that produces a wide range of professionals, necessitates numerous changes and advancements in educational administration. The introduction and integration of boot camps is one method…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Coding, Marketing, Models
Phelan, Daniel J. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2022
Multiple direct observations suggest that community college board governance exists today, very much as it has for many decades, often encumbered by outmoded, unchecked, ineffectual practices, and absent clarity of purpose. The absence of a routine assessment of a board's own governance style and efficacy foretells a future inability for…
Descriptors: Governance, Models, Community Colleges, Governing Boards
Livingston, Paula – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this research study was to describe and develop an understanding of how female leaders lead in the current and transitional landscape of higher education, how they perceive and have utilized an entrepreneurial mindset and leadership characteristics, and how they have worked to achieve a delicate balance between feminine and…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Beliefs, Females, Leadership
Voeller, Jooyoung – International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2023
Purpose: To better prepare young people for the increasingly complex world of work in the global knowledge economy, apprenticeships are receiving renewed attention in countries without a strong history of vocational education. One of the strategies to promote and modernize apprenticeships in these countries is to offer apprenticeships integrated…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Models, Apprenticeships, Vocational Education
Kimberly Murphy – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Guided Pathways, a student success reform initiative movement, requires institutions to build specific educational plans for students from start to finish of their degree or credential. The purpose of this study was to offer a model for institutions to implement Guided Pathways through the lens and experience of college leaders who have…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Administrator Attitudes, Guided Pathways, Models
