Faculty Perception Of Inclusive Instruction At Three South-Central Community Colleges, 2021 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Faculty Perception Of Inclusive Instruction At Three South-Central Community Colleges, Karen R. O'Donohoe
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Enrollment rates for student with disabilities in higher education continue to rise, particularly in 2-year colleges, but graduation rates have not kept pace due to barriers not addressed by traditional disability supports (Black et al., 2014; NCES, 2019; Smedema et al., 2015). Inclusive instruction is a low-cost, high-impact solution that can be implemented on any campus (Black et al., 2014; Lombardi et al., 2013; Roberts et al., 2011). This quantitative study utilized a cross-sectional descriptive non-experimental research design that explored faculty self-reported attitudes and actions associated with inclusive instruction at three of the largest degree-granting, two-year institutions in a single …
Leadership Practices For Undocumented And Daca Students In The Heartland, 2021 North Iowa Area Community College
Leadership Practices For Undocumented And Daca Students In The Heartland, Dalila A. Sajadian
Instructional Leadership Abstracts
Continuous demographic changes are shaping the future of higher education institutions and as a result, leaders in educational institutions must adapt to those changes. Community college leaders, in particular rural leaders, are in a unique position and need to constantly evolve to serve different students, including undocumented and DACA students. The US Department of Education (2015) estimates that approximately 65,000 undocumented students graduate from U.S. high schools every year, however, “only 5 to 10% of undocumented students pursue higher education, and far fewer successfully graduate with a degree” (US Dept. of Education, 2015, p. 3). On June 15, 2012, President …
Understanding First-Generation Hispanic Student Experiences With Community College Campus Resources, 2021 University of New England
Understanding First-Generation Hispanic Student Experiences With Community College Campus Resources, Monica Medina
All Theses And Dissertations
Community colleges serve as an essential gateway to higher education for Hispanics. Although first-generation Hispanic (FGHC) students continue to enroll in community colleges, there is limited research to explain their experiences using campus resources. This study’s purpose was to contribute to the existing literature on FGHC students and determine if their use of campus resources helped them succeed. This study used the conceptual framework of academic engagement (Tinto, 1996). Nora’s (2003) and Nora et al’s (2006) student engagement theory as lenses to explain how FGHC students can have pre-college characteristics that can affect their social, academic, and overall goals for …
Building Bridges Not Walls: An Exploratory Study Of Student Involvement And African American Student Retention At Community Colleges, 2021 Western Kentucky University
Building Bridges Not Walls: An Exploratory Study Of Student Involvement And African American Student Retention At Community Colleges, Brittney Rasjan Hernandez-Stevenson
Dissertations
African American students are attending college and working toward earning credentials, yet this population is persisting at lower rates compared to their White counterparts. The purpose of this study is to explore the impact that student involvement has on African American student persistence and retention at community colleges. A Sequential Explanatory mixed methods design was conducted with quantitative data from 743 African American KCTCS community college students that completed the 2019 Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE) and qualitative data from 11 focus group interview participants. An ordinal logistic regression was used to analyze the data and the quantitative …
Journal Of Communication Pedagogy, Complete Volume 4, 2021, 2021 Western Michigan University
Journal Of Communication Pedagogy, Complete Volume 4, 2021
Journal of Communication Pedagogy
This is the complete volume 4 of the Journal of Communication Pedagogy.
Advances In Global Education And Research: Volume 4, 2021 University of South Florida
Advances In Global Education And Research: Volume 4, Waynne B. James, Cihan Cobanoglu, Muhittin Cavusoglu
University of South Florida (USF) M3 Publishing
This is the fourth volume of the Advances in Global Education and Research Book Series. This volume has the following parts:
- Part 1: Adult Education
- Part 2: Curriculum and Instruction Development
- Part 3: Educational Technology
- Part 4: Education in Other Specialties
- Part 5: English as a Second Language
- Part 6: Global Competence
- Part 7: Higher Education and Educational Leadership
- Part 8: Inclusive Education
- Part 9: International Education
- Part 10: PreK-12
- Part 11: Research Methods in Education
ISBN: 978-1-955833-04-2
Adult Education
- Teaching for knowledge transfer: Best practices from a graduate-level educational psychology distance learning program
- Bobby Hoffman
- A study on the …
Understanding The Experience Of Mid-Level Community College Change Leaders, 2021 Western Michigan University
Understanding The Experience Of Mid-Level Community College Change Leaders, Kelley L. Conrad
Dissertations
This qualitative study investigates the phenomenon of leading major change as a midlevel administrator or faculty member at a Michigan community college. Specifically, this study explores how three leaders experienced their roles in implementing the guided pathways strategic change initiative, how they describe the emotional aspects of leading change, and how they made sense of their experiences. One overarching research question guided this study: How do guided pathways leaders at Michigan community colleges experience their roles in the strategic change process?
The results of multiple, in-depth interviews are presented as three profiles, one per participant, using their own words to …
A Narrative Study Of The Experiences That Disrupt Or Terminate Entry In The Community College Presidential Pipeline For African American Women, 2021 Old Dominion University
A Narrative Study Of The Experiences That Disrupt Or Terminate Entry In The Community College Presidential Pipeline For African American Women, Dana G. Stilley
Educational Foundations & Leadership Theses & Dissertations
Organizational structures, beliefs, and values in higher education are influenced by the deep-seated characteristics of patriarchy, dominance and racial and gender bias, upon which higher education was founded. These factors continue to impact the ascension of African American women to college presidencies. Current challenges facing community colleges include a gap in executive leadership and the underrepresentation of African American women in the presidential pipeline.
The purpose of this narrative inquiry was to better understand the experiences that disrupt or terminate the journey to a presidency for African American women in senior level positions at community colleges. The goal was to …
Grounded Roots Applied To Women Presidents In The California Community Colleges System, 2021 Brandman University
Grounded Roots Applied To Women Presidents In The California Community Colleges System, Penny Shreve
Dissertations
Purpose: The purpose of this explanatory mixed methods study was to identify and describe what exemplary female presidents in California community colleges do to stay grounded and maintain physical, emotional, intellectual, social, vocational, and spiritual health.
Methodology: This mixed methods study identified and described the perceptions of 16 women presidents in the California Community Colleges system regarding strategies they use to remain grounded in their current positions. Respondents were purposively chosen based on specific criteria. Data were gathered through the Stay Grounded survey from 16 participants and interviews with 5 of the participants. Quantitative data were tabulated to determine mean …
My Ncia Journey, And Why It Matters, 2021 Mid-Plains Community College
My Ncia Journey, And Why It Matters, Jody Tomanek
Instructional Leadership Abstracts
Have you ever had that moment in life where you know it is time to move on from something, yet it is so hard to officially break away? I am having that moment right now as a member of the NCIA board. This Instructional Leadership Abstract will be different from others, but in keeping with the mission of NCIA, contains information to support you as a community college instructional administrator.
NCIA has been a part of my professional life for the last 20 years. I first became familiar with NCIA when I was an administrative assistant working for a VP …
Intrusive Academic Advising Student-Athletes At A Division Iii University, 2021 National Louis University
Intrusive Academic Advising Student-Athletes At A Division Iii University, Robert Holmes
Dissertations
Abstract
There are many factors that affect the graduation of collegiate student-athletes. Factors include student-athlete characteristics, academic advising, engagement, and relationships. These factors affect student-athlete retention at the university. Student-athletes must navigate their academic and athletic success with assistance from academic advisors and other university support systems. The ability of the student-athlete and the academic advisor to communicate and cultivate a relationship that is built on regularly scheduled meetings, sharing of the student-athlete’s personal goals, suggestions for personal and professional improvement culminating in trust is paramount to the success of the student-athlete. This research focuses on the relationship between the …
Equity By Design And Delivery Model In Online Learning: Educator And Student Perceptions And Behaviors As Leading Indicators Of Systemic Change, 2021 University of Washington Tacoma
Equity By Design And Delivery Model In Online Learning: Educator And Student Perceptions And Behaviors As Leading Indicators Of Systemic Change, Miebeth Bustillo-Booth
Ed.D. Dissertations in Practice
The purpose of this study is to explore educator and student perceptions of and behaviors in the Equity by Design and Delivery (EDD) model and its online courses as leading indicators of systemic change. The EDD model is a pilot intervention to eliminate opportunity to learn gaps at the program level in a mid-sized northwestern college in the United States. It shifts instructional behavior from individual efforts to collective approaches to limit quality variances in online courses, theorized to be a major contributor of missed opportunities to learn at high levels, by developing and delivering reliable quality courses based on …
A Phenomenological Inquiry Into The Perceptions Of Single Mother College Students, 2021 Minnesota State University Moorhead
A Phenomenological Inquiry Into The Perceptions Of Single Mother College Students, Jamaica Delmar
Dissertations, Theses, and Projects
As parenting students are an underserved subset of the growing nontraditional college student population in the United States, this study aims to understand and illuminate the experiences of single mother students while in pursuit of a post-secondary credential. This research is motivated by the following research questions, viewed within the context of a participant's identities: How do single mother college students perceive institutional support services? How do single mother college students experience their interactions with faculty? What institutional systems are in place that pose the biggest barriers to persistence and degree completion for single mother college students? A phenomenological qualitative …
Correlation Between Servant Leadership And Organizational Commitment Within An Academic Health Center, 2021 Rutgers University-School of Health Professions
Correlation Between Servant Leadership And Organizational Commitment Within An Academic Health Center, Cheryl Bellamy
Servant Leadership: Theory & Practice
Correlation Between Servant Leadership and Organizational Commitment
Abstract
This paper presents an overview of a study of the relationship between servant leadership and organizational commitment. The study included a convenience sample of 84 full and part-time employees of a health professions education unit within an academic health center. Participants were surveyed using the Executive Servant Leadership Scale (ESLS) to assess servant leadership and the Klein Unidimensional Target-free (KUT) instrument to assess organizational commitment. Data analysis was conducted using Kendall’s tau-b and Spearman’s rho. Results showed that there is a significant positive relationship between servant leadership and organizational commitment.
Keywords: Servant …
Influence Of Student Characteristics, Class Size, And Instructor Characteristics In Online Student Success, 2021 East Tennessee State University
Influence Of Student Characteristics, Class Size, And Instructor Characteristics In Online Student Success, Melody K. Edmonds
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The purpose of this non-experimental quantitative case study was to compare the academic success of community college students over three academic years (2016-17 through 2018-19) before the onset of COVID-19 based on final grades and the influence of student factors, class size, and faculty characteristics using archival data from selected online and on-ground classes at a Middle Tennessee community college. Student factors reviewed include gender, full-time or part-time status, and age (traditional or non-traditional status). Instructor characteristics reviewed included full-time or part-time (adjunct) teaching status and tenure or non-tenure status of faculty. Institutional data for this study consisted of 44,568 …
Predictive Measures Of College Academic Success For Secondary Students At An Hispanic Serving Institution, 2021 University of Texas at El Paso
Predictive Measures Of College Academic Success For Secondary Students At An Hispanic Serving Institution, Steven Smith
Open Access Theses & Dissertations
The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of one of the latest Texas legislative efforts to increase the college readiness of Texas high school graduates. The study assessed whether students falling under this mandated measure of college readiness are as successful in their college level math and English courses as students who pass the Texas Success Initiative Assessment. Using a secondary data set, a set of binary logistic regression models were developed to analyze the predictive value of six variables in determining student success in their first college level math or English course. Descriptive statistics were used …
Key Performance Indicators Of Health Cte Students At For-Profit Colleges And Public Community Colleges, 2021 University of Texas at El Paso
Key Performance Indicators Of Health Cte Students At For-Profit Colleges And Public Community Colleges, Souraya Hajjar
Open Access Theses & Dissertations
The advent of for-profit colleges to the higher education scene in the U.S. has challenged public community colleges on all levels; financial, academic, and consumerism. Research has shown that key performance indicators are more favorable at public community colleges than at for-profit colleges. Determining size and type of colleges, ethnicity and gender differences that contribute to total graduation rate of health Career and Technical Education (CTE) students will add to the limited research on the relationship between these constructs and provide information to prospective health CTE students about college enrollment. The study aims to examine institutional performance variables to assist …
Andragogy For All? A Look At Arkansas Community College Students' Preferences For Andragogical Assumptions, 2021 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Andragogy For All? A Look At Arkansas Community College Students' Preferences For Andragogical Assumptions, Emilee Sides
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Community colleges are tasked with juggling multiple missions. They provide open access to education for adults in their community, work with industry partners to educate the local workforce, and provide relevant programming to the communities they serve. When compared with students at four-year institutions, community college students are older, more ethnically and racially diverse, come from lower socioeconomic statuses, and less academically prepared.
Like other community colleges across the country, one of the primary goals of Arkansas community colleges is to help their students succeed. Unfortunately, the state has historically performed poorly in regard to educational outcomes. To get the …
Preceptorship Within Accredited Nutrition And Dietetics Programs: A Pragmatic Mixed Methods Study, 2021 University of Minnesota Moorhead
Preceptorship Within Accredited Nutrition And Dietetics Programs: A Pragmatic Mixed Methods Study, Angela K. Brekken
Dissertations, Theses, and Projects
The purpose of this pragmatic mixed-methods study was to identify the factors that impact a nutrition professional’s preceptorship decision and potential solutions to combat preceptor shortages within accredited nutrition and dietetics programs. Homan’s social exchange theory provided the theoretical framework that if perceived costs of preceptorship outweigh the perceived benefits, then the activity will cease.
Phase one of the study included an online mixed-methods questionnaire. Phase two included a qualitative focus group and interview with self-identified volunteers from phase one. Quantitative analysis through SPSS included descriptive statistics (means and standard deviations) and inferential statistics (one-way ANOVA). Qualitative data for both …
Pine Technical And Community College Policy Alignment Project, 2021 Winona State University
Pine Technical And Community College Policy Alignment Project, Amy Kruse
Leadership Education Capstones
The purpose of this project is to create an easily navigated campus policy and procedure process by aligning these documents with governing standards.