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John Dewey and the future of community college education
'Honorable Mention' 2016 PROSE Award - Education Theory Today, community colleges enroll 40% of all undergraduates in the United States.In the years ahead, these institutions are expected to serve an even larger share of this student population.
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Course-Taking Patterns of Community College Students Beginning in STEM: Using Data Mining Techniques to Reveal Viable STEM Transfer Pathways
This research focuses on course-taking patterns of beginning community college students enrolled in one or more non-remedial science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) courses during their first year of college, and how these patterns are mapped against upward transfer in STEM fields of study. Drawing upon postsecondary transcript data, collected as part of the Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study (BPS:04/09), this study takes advantage of data mining techniques that, although underutilized in higher education research, are powerful and appropriate analytical tools for investigating complex transcript data. Thus, focusing on a pivotal yet extremely understudied topic dealing with postsecondary STEM education and pathways, this study offers new insight into course and program features that contribute to efficient and effective academic STEM pathways for community college students.
Journal Article
The college fear factor : how students and professors misunderstand one another
Eye-opening even for experienced faculty and administrators, this book reveals how the traditional college culture can actually pose obstacles to students' success, and suggests strategies for effectively explaining academic expectations.
Book
The Labor Market Returns to a Community College Education for Noncompleting Students
In this study, I used data from California to estimate the returns to a community college education that does not result in a postsecondary credential. I found strong, positive returns to completed credits in career and technical education (CTE) fields that are closely linked to employment sectors that are not credential-intensive (sectors in which employment often does not require a college degree), such as public safety, skilled blue-collar trade and technical work, and accounting and bookkeeping, among others. In these sectors, students were able to convert the human capital acquired in their coursework into returns that far exceeded the cost of the coursework itself, making some noncompleting educational pathways a rational means of securing earnings gains. This finding is consistent with emerging research on skills-builder students and other segments of the community college student population who exhibit coherent patterns of course taking and enrollment that typically do not result in a postsecondary credential. Further investigations of high-return noncompleting pathways are warranted and could help colleges to target efforts to grow postsecondary completion opportunities for students through short-term certificates programs, while also aiding efforts to communicate to stakeholders the successes that cannot be measured by counting credentials or transfers.
Journal Article
Does Louisiana’s Diverse High School Diploma Pathways Impact Students’ Career Paths? An Investigative Study at a Louisiana Community College
To graduate high school in Louisiana, a student must complete the required courses to receive a traditional (Taylor Opportunity for Students (TOPS)) diploma or a career (Jumpstart) diploma. The diploma routes differ in the required courses students must successfully complete to graduate high school, as well as the opportunities students have for enrolling in a post-secondary institution. The TOPS student can attend a four-year college, university, or community college, but the Jumpstart student is limited to initially enrolling in a community college. The purpose of this study is to determine the impact, if any, that earning a Jumpstart diploma has on a student’s career path compared to the TOPS diploma at a community college in Louisiana. The results from this study determined that students' high school diploma routes do not impact their career path at a community college.
Dissertation
Texas Community College Fundraising Practices for Workforce and Economic Development
Community colleges are no longer only serving their students through in-class learning opportunities; they have now expanded their activities to help address workforce and economic development issues facing community college graduates. To reduce their dependence on government funding and taxpayers, community colleges need to apply strategic fundraising tactics to help students and their local economies. While community colleges do face barriers at times in their fundraising pursuits, many community colleges have set new goals to enhance student and community success metrics through fundraising strategies. Unquestionably, the state of Texas and its taxpayers must address postsecondary systematic concerns regarding sufficient funding for community colleges; effective fundraising strategies can help with that. This treatise focused on how administrators at two Texas community colleges in Houston and Dallas conducted fundraising activities to expand workforce and economic development opportunities and limit dependence on government funding. Findings illuminate the strategies they undertook, such as private fundraising, partnership building, grant writing and initiative vetting, and how they defined the success of these strategies, which included whether they contributed to completion rates, partner satisfaction, and vested community partners. Findings also illuminate the challenges participants faced, such as loss of funding and staff changes, and the strategies they used to address them, which included focused actions and plans and the reconsideration of future initiatives. These strategies should inform ongoing practice. And as the funding structure for community colleges shifts with the implementation of performance-based funding with House Bill 8, future research should document the consequences for fundraising.
Dissertation