Recently added articles from Community College Review:
Unintended consequences: examining the effect of part-time faculty members on associate's degree completion.(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Employment of part-time faculty members by community colleges has become an increasingly common approach to reducing institutional costs, which may have unintended consequences for student outcomes. This study examines the relationship between part-time faculty members and the associate's ...
Student success courses in the community college: an exploratory study of student perspectives.(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... This study examines student success courses in two urban community colleges. Through analysis of student interview data, we find that such courses are an essential resource for students, in large part because the various benefits reinforce one another and magnify their influence. These ...
Delicate engagement: the lived experience of community college students enrolled in high-risk online courses.(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... This article reports the findings of a phenomenological study that examined the lived experience of community college students enrolled in high-risk online courses (HRCs) at a community college in the American Southeast. HRCs were defined as college courses with withdrawal or failure rates ...
Do university centers produce comparable teacher education candidates?(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... This study investigates the effectiveness of a two-plus-two university center teacher education program. In this program, the entire curriculum is delivered on community college campuses; community college faculty members deliver the general education coursework, and university faculty ...
Rosenbaum, J. E., Deil-Amen, R., & Person, A. E. (2006). After Admission: From College Access to College Success.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Rosenbaum, J. E., Deil-Amen, R., & Person, A. E. (2006). After Admission: From College Access to College Success. New York: Russell Sage. DOI: 10.1177/0091552108327071 After Admission: From College Access to College Success examines student and college success from ...
Editor's note.
Oct 01, 2008; ... This issue of the Community College Review includes three research reports and one scholarly essay. First, David S. Fike and Renea Fike draw on data from an urban community college to identity predictors of retention for first-time-in-college students. Their findings suggest, among other ...
Predictors of first-year student retention in the community college.(Report)
Oct 01, 2008; ... This study analyzed predictors of fall-to-spring and fall-to-fall retention for 9,200 first-time-in-college students who enrolled in a community college over a four-year period. Findings highlight the impact of developmental education programs and internet-based courses on student ...
Predicting performance in a community college content-area course from academic skill level.(Report)
Oct 01, 2008; ... Binary logistic regression analyses were performed on institutional data from a large urban community college in order to identify predictors of performance in a content course (psychology) that had high literacy demands. It was found that students who completed college English were more ...
Chief academic officers' demographics and educational backgrounds.(Report)
Oct 01, 2008; ... The impending retirements of many community college leaders creates a need to better understand who the chief academic officers (CAOs) are and the paths they followed to become CAOs. Nonetheless, researchers have paid relatively little attention to this important leadership position. To ...
Making the case for a positive approach to improving organizational performance in higher education institutions: the community college abundance model.
Oct 01, 2008; ... Increasingly hostile and turbulent environments have rendered top-down, problem-focused management structures inadequate for competing in the ever-changing postsecondary knowledge industry. The community college abundance model (CCAM), a strengths-based approach to performance enhancement ...
Wallin, D. L. (Ed.). (2005). Adjunct Faculty in Community Colleges: An Academic Administrator's Guide to Recruiting, Supporting, and Retaining Great Teachers.
Oct 01, 2008; ... Wallin, D. L. (Ed.). (2005). Adjunct Faculty in Community Colleges: An Academic Administrator's Guide to Recruiting, Supporting, and Retaining Great Teachers. Bolton, MA: Anker. Adjunct or part-time faculty members are already a significant presence in community colleges, ...