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One Policy, Disparate Reactions: Institutional Responses in Florida's Developmental Education Reform
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Park, Toby J.; Tandberg, David A.; Hu, Shouping; Hankerson, Dava – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2016
This paper seeks to better understand how community colleges in Florida planned to implement a new sweeping state policy pertaining to developmental education. Via a cluster analysis, we identify three distinct patterns in the ways in which the colleges responded to the policy: reformers, responders, and resisters. Further, we find that these…
Descriptors: Developmental Programs, Educational Change, Community Colleges, State Policy
Racial Disparities, Perceptions, and Evaluations: Counseling Model Choice and the Florida College System
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Ocean, Mia; Hawkins, Damian; Chopra, Kobitta – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2014
Community college students face a number of life and academic challenges. It is unknown what counseling models are currently employed by community colleges to meet their students' many needs. Representatives of Florida's 28 community colleges completed a survey detailing their counseling model, student populations, rationale behind the model…
Descriptors: Racial Differences, Community Colleges, Models, Counseling Services
Challenges in the Implementation of Outcomes-Based Assessment Program Review in a California Community College District
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Bresciani, Marilee J. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2011
The purpose of this study was to explore the manner in which a community college district planned to implement a systematic outcomes-based assessment program review process in order to have results inform institutional, district, and state policy discussions. Data derived from this grounded theory study indicated that there was not a shared…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Community Colleges, Program Effectiveness, Outcome Based Education
Aztec Middle College: High School Alternatives in Community Colleges
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Olsen, Lynette – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2010
The traditional high school model derived from the factory deficit model of the early 1900s has left many students, mainly minorities and/or low socioeconomic students, disenfranchised. This is evident in the poor school performance and high dropout rates of such students. Whereas the factory deficit model was created to promote only a few high…
Descriptors: High Schools, Graduation Rate, Community Colleges, Nontraditional Education
Perceptions of Barriers Concerning Effective Online Teaching and Policies: Florida Community College Faculty
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Haber, Jennifer; Mills, Michael – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2008
This study's purpose was to examine the perceptions of Florida's full-time community college faculty members who teach by distance learning concerning the ten policy areas set forth by Berge and Muilenburg (2000). Focus group sessions indicated that faculty members felt certain barriers related to their online experiences. Faculty time and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Distance Education, Focus Groups, Online Courses
Fiscal Realities and the Illinois Community College System's Strategic Plan
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Corcoran, Jerome M.; Sorensen, Christine K. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2007
Fiscal realities are forcing a review and potential refocusing of Illinois community colleges. This study compared the themes that emerged from interviewing an Illinois community college stakeholder group in 2005 to what emerged from a similar study in Iowa by Ebbers and Gardner in 2002. Illinois stakeholders talked about their overall perceptions…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Educational Planning, Participation, Population Groups
Evaluation of a Community College Honors Program: Problems and Possibilities.
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Bulakowski, Carole; Townsend, Barbara K. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 1995
Presents results from a qualitative study of the effects of a community college honors program on students, faculty, and administrators. Indicates that although honors students and faculty enjoyed and benefited from the program, it was criticized by some as representing elitist attitudes antithetical to the community college mission. (30…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Honors Curriculum