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College Transition Programs for Community College Students
Over the past four decades the number of students enrolling in colleges and universities requiring at least one pre-college level course has been about one-third of all students. Underprepared students are as likely to complete their academic goals as their prepared counterparts if they are able to …
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Racial Microaggression Experiences of Latinx Community College Students
<p>Despite the increasing rate of community college enrollment among Latinx students, little is known about their experiences with racial microaggressions. The purpose of this study was to address both the lack of research in understanding the racialized experiences of this growing student …
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*Validation Experiences and Persistence Among Urban Community College Students
… with items loading onto four components: students known and valued, good instruction, appreciation for diversity, and mentoring. Faculty validation was found to strongly predict students' sense of integration; each of the sub-constructs of faculty validation predicted student integration …
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Preferred Distance Learning Modalities of Millennial Community College Students
… while focusing on the Millennial student in the community college. The findings from this study uncovered a positive relationship between structure and satisfaction for the Millennial online students. These findings were incongruent with existing theory and provide the foundation for further …
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Post-Katrina Student Resilience: Perspectives of Nunez Community College Students
… of student resiliency as it relates to Nunez Community College students who returned to attend school in the community of St. Bernard Parish following Hurricane Katrina. Nunez Community College is located in Chalmette, Louisiana, fifteen miles east of the City of New Orleans. The community is …
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Perceptions of Persistence: Why Community College Students are not Persisting
… the barriers to persistence underprepared students at the community college experience after the initial successful completion of one semester. A qualitative interview study, grounded in phenomenology, was implemented. Participants were identified through a process of purposeful selection, …
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Beyond the Dream:Improving College-Readiness of Underprepared Community College Students
<p>The majority of the nation’s first-year college students are not prepared to assume postsecondary level studies. Many are diverted to developmental education programs and most never attain postsecondary credentials. Educational reform is on the national agenda and challenges community colleges …
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Characteristics of Help-Seeking Among First-Year Community College Students
<p>Health trends among freshmen entering college indicate that 2-year college students are especially vulnerable to engaging in risky health behaviors, yet many do not seek help. There was a need to more directly assess those who use college health services and factors that enable them to seek help …
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Do Community College Students' Perceptions Impact Their Decisions to Transfer?
… was to determine if the perceptions of urban community college students impacted their decision to transition into a four-year private Catholic university. The study design was quantitative in nature, using an electronic Likert Survey. The electronic survey was sent out to 208 early childhood …
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Academic Factors that Predict Community College Students’ Acceptance of Evolution
… of evolution among high school and university students -- and the general public -- there are few studies focusing on community college students. In an effort to help fill this gap in the literature, this dissertation investigates the relationship between the acceptance of evolution and …
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Access Barriers To Higher Education For Rural Community College Students
… related to rural low-income, first generation college students' obstacles to community college enrollment. The study examined barriers students overcame to attend college and focused on rural college students from two community colleges in Missouri and Arkansas. The following questions guided …
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Development of an information literacy course for community college students
… goals for an information literacy course for community college associate degree students. Using these attributes as the basis, content goals were developed from the literature for each attribute and worded according to an expert curriculum development system. A panel of experts on information …
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A multivariate analysis of satisfaction among Virginia community college students
… satisfaction, defined as the degree to which students believe they are getting what they desire from their educational experiences, has received relatively little emphasis in educational and sociological literature. Thus, the purpose of this study is to develop a causal model explaining …
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The writing community college students do at a transfer institution
Community colleges because of their philosophy have developed programs which are sensitive to the communities and students they serve. Thus, it would appear that data are needed in order to better prepare students for the writing they will do at a transfer institution. The present study was …
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Course-triggered Identity Exploration, Motivation, and Success among Community College Students
… conducted in other educational contexts to the community college setting in an effort to provide insights into the relatively lower rates of academic success experienced by community college students. The purpose of this dissertation research is to explore the nature and prevalence of …
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Community college students deriving value from a first-year seminar curriculum
… instrumental case study was to understand how community college students derive value from a first-year seminar curriculum. In this study, situated within the tenets of the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), I aimed to better understand how students perceived a first-year seminar …
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The Persistence Of Community College Students: A Single Site Case Study
<p>Only 22% of all students who enroll in community colleges complete an associate degree within three years, and only 16% of students at urban community colleges earn a degree in the same time frame. Community college administrators recognize that a majority of their student population desires to …
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The Neglected Minority: Interviews with Successful Community College Students from Poverty
… to embrace the economic diversity of all students and to prepare them, regardless of economic class, for a globally competitive workplace. Unfortunately, the higher education community is not as adept at serving low-income students, as it is middle- and upper- income students. Low-income …
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