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Bethany Lewis; Daniel Rossman; Rafael Pasillas; Rebecca Klein-Collins – Council for Adult and Experiential Learning, 2024
The Latino and Adult Student Success (LASS) Academy is a multi-year initiative administered by CAEL (the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning) focused on supporting Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) in their efforts to improve outcomes for adult and Latino adult learners. In its first phase, from 2018 through 2021, the LASS Academy…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Adult Students, Universities, Technical Assistance
Brown, Lenis Colton – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this qualitative, multiple case study was to illuminate the prevalence and configurations of peer mentoring programs at Central California Community Colleges with emphasis on how the programs impacted student retention. The study's sample was drawn from ten campuses and five centers that operate within five California Community…
Descriptors: Mentors, Peer Groups, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students
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Corso, Josephine; Devine, Jane – Community College Enterprise, 2013
The LaGuardia Community College Student Technology Mentor (STM) program demonstrates how a college's own students can become resources for the technology development of faculty, the improvement of teaching tools, and the expansion of library services. The program also illustrates how the Student Technology Mentors themselves benefit from campus…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Students, Mentors, Technology Integration
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Perez, Aaron M.; McShannon, Judy; Hynes, Pat – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2012
Community college administrators look for strategies to help students. GRASP (Gaining Retention and Achievement for Students Program) is a semester-long faculty development program that coaches community college instructors about simple, effective teaching strategies that promote student academic achievement. GRASP is founded on the belief that…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Community Colleges, Academic Achievement, Faculty Development
Ocasio-Jimenez, Priscilla Irma – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The graduation rates for Hispanic students in higher education are the lowest in the nation in comparison to any other subgroups, yet they are the fastest growing population in the nation. Lack of a rigorous curriculum in a K-12 setting and college readiness skills are factors. There needs to be a strong partnership among K-12 school districts and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, School Holding Power, Student Recruitment, Community Colleges
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Hirschy, Amy S.; Bremer, Christine D.; Castellano, Marisa – Community College Review, 2011
Career and technical education (CTE) students pursuing occupational associate's degrees or certificates differ from students seeking academic majors at 2-year institutions in several ways. This article examines several theoretical models of student persistence and offers a conceptual model of student success focused on CTE students in community…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Models, Vocational Education, Career Development
Fletcher, Darla Michelle Keel – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Approximately half of students at the community college level leave the institution before degree completion. Community college students are more likely than four-year students to be first-generation students, attend school part-time, be less prepared academically, work full-time, have family responsibilities, and have entered college later in…
Descriptors: School Holding Power, Program Effectiveness, Intervention, First Generation College Students
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Schwartz, Celeste; Barron, Mary Lou; Mauger, Alana J. – EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 2010
Data-informed decision making helps higher education institutions know whether they are achieving their missions, including expanding access to higher education and increasing student success. For three consecutive years, Montgomery County Community College (MCCC) has been ranked among the top community colleges in the country for its use of…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Student Experience, Technology Uses in Education, School Holding Power
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Hagedorn, Linda Serra; Kress, Anne M. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2008
The authors advocate that community colleges have a wealth of data that are currently used for multiple purposes, with significant potential for understanding student success if coded, defined, and subjected to analysis. In the pages that follow, we discuss the research methodology of transcript analysis, and the benefits and usefulness of…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Community Colleges, Academic Achievement, Student Records
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Stebleton, Michael J.; Schmidt, LeAnne – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2010
Community colleges face struggles in helping students meet their academic, career, and personal goals. Student affairs practitioners can be innovators by creating initiatives to engage students. Practitioners can act as a bridge between student and academic affairs. This article explores how a group of counselors redefined their roles by designing…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Student Personnel Services, Student Personnel Workers, Counselor Role
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Moon, Debi; Moolenaar-Wirsiy, Pamela – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2008
With a limited budget, but a critical need to develop 21st century marketplace skills, Georgia Perimeter College (GPC) developed the Million Dollar Difference Campaign. Focusing on how quality instruction affects retention and student outcomes, GPC re-energized a 1000-faculty workforce in one year through a series of innovative teaching…
Descriptors: Program Descriptions, Teaching Skills, Teaching Methods, Educational Quality
Bond, Lloyd – Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 2009
Strengthening Pre-collegiate Education in Community Colleges (SPECC) is a multi-site action-research project, focused on teaching and learning in pre-collegiate mathematics and English language arts courses at 11 California community colleges. In this report, the author discusses the data gathered over the course of the SPECC project and reflects…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Language Arts, Evidence, Action Research
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Sorkin, Sylvia; Gore, Mary Elizabeth; Mento, Barbara; Stanton, Jon – Information Systems Education Journal, 2010
Two Maryland colleges (one a four-year liberal arts college for women, and one a public community college) have worked to increase the number of graduates, especially women and other under-represented groups, in their computer science, computer information systems, engineering, and mathematics programs over a four-year period. In August 2004, they…
Descriptors: Females, Educational Attainment, Mentors, College Faculty
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Staats, William L. – College Teaching, 1991
In response to high attrition in accounting courses, Hudson Valley Community College began a "late start" program for students otherwise inclined to drop or fail the course, in which students can begin again up to four weeks after the semester is under way, at no cost. Results have been encouraging. (MSE)
Descriptors: Accounting, College Instruction, Community Colleges, Higher Education
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Smith, Joshua S. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2007
The study describes an initiative to increase retention at a 2-year college in the Northeast United States. The process involved a collaborative, intrusive advising approach to intervene with students at-risk for academic failure or experiencing difficulty with the transition to the college. Components of the mixed-method design included…
Descriptors: School Holding Power, Faculty Advisers, Academic Advising, Counseling Techniques
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