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Direct linkMichele Campagna – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2023
Community colleges are vital sources of educational and economic opportunities in urban areas. This chapter provides readers with a review of the research on students served by these institutions. While the experiences of this population are similar in many ways to those of community college students across the country, the influence of their…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Resilience (Psychology), Urban Areas, Student Experience
Collin Callaway – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2023
Urban community colleges provide access to postsecondary education's most diverse and underserved student populations. Students enrolled in these institutions often face academic, financial, and social challenges that shrink their odds of success. Leaders from three urban community colleges in the Southern United States shared the importance of…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Administrator Attitudes, Outcomes of Education, Student Diversity
Waktola, Daniel K. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2014
This study attempted to analyze the drop out problem from spatial perspectives within the context of East Los Angeles Community College, California. Selected urban land-use types, which positively and negatively influence the propensity to drop out or persist-in colleges, were selected and captured during a global positioning system (GPS)-based…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Dropout Characteristics, Land Use, Urban Environment
Johnson, Julie J. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Developmental education is a primary tool of access to higher education, particularly at the community college level, for students who are not academically prepared. There is a high need for remediation of community college students, yet a low remedial course completion rate. While there is broad awareness of the problem of remediation and its…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Higher Education, Qualitative Research
Klein, Brock; Wright, Lynn Marie – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2009
While much discussion about student success as it relates to access, equity, and underpreparedness at the collegiate level is taking place nationally and statewide, a strong and specific concern prompted some of the faculty at Pasadena City College (PCC), a large urban community college located northeast of downtown Los Angeles, to address the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Urban Environment, Learning Centers (Classroom), Algebra
Download full textUnited States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1915
The problems of industry, government, and life in the modern industrial and commercial city are numerous, large, and complex. For their solution a larger amount of scientific knowledge and higher standards of intelligence among citizens are needed. All the city's agencies for good and progress need to be united and vitalized for more effective…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Urban Universities, Urban Environment
