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Rohan Desai – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This qualitative case study explored the experiences of staff and student participants in a men of color program at one California community college. The research aimed to understand how program staff creates environments conducive to exploring masculine identity among men of color. Grounded in validation theory and the multiple masculinities…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Minority Group Students, College Programs, Masculinity
Amy C. Parks – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This phenomenological study examined how students at a large, urban community college experienced being an artist, before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. It also investigated the ways these students made meaning of their arts experiences. The research design was based upon the model outlined in "Interpretative Phenomenological…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Urban Schools, COVID-19, Pandemics
Paul Jude Guidry – ProQuest LLC, 2019
No parent, student, employee or visitor should ever fear walking the halls and grounds of a college or university campus. Over the past two decades, this country has witnessed many tragic mass shootings, which resulted in multiple deaths and countless injuries. One of the deadliest on record occurred April 16, 2007, at Virginia Tech. Today,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Weapons, School Safety, School Violence
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Kras, Nicole – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2021
Ecotherapy-based experiences have been shown to provide multiple benefits such as improved cognitive functioning, increased overall well-being and improved mental and physical health. Few, if any studies have considered the benefits of providing these types of experiences for urban community college students. This pilot study introduces an eco-art…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Urban Areas, Two Year College Students, Workshops
Streitwieser, Bernhard, Ed.; Ogden, Anthony, Ed. – Symposium Books, 2016
The idea of the professional who bridges both research and practice has been largely overlooked and at times even disregarded by the academic and administrative structures that govern activity in higher education today. In international higher education, the number of students who now engage in mobility and exchange has expanded globally, along…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Research and Development, Theory Practice Relationship, Global Approach
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Shippee, Matthew Ruby – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2010
One of the important aspects of integrating contemplative practice into higher music education is the emphasis the practice places on individual experience. Students begin to learn to sensitize both their outer and inner listening. They begin to trust their own experience and the inner guidance that can be found in that trust. They begin to trust…
Descriptors: Music Education, Curriculum Design, Teaching Methods, Experience