Community college and university degree partnership programs allow students to tailor their educational experiences to fit personal goals and preferences while transitioning back and forth seamlessly between a community ...
The purpose of this study was to explore the perceptions that community college and
university faculty have about similarities and differences in their professional roles.
The research design included a qualitative eth ...
The study was designed to determine how learner outcomes, one
aspect of a comprehensive assessment plan at an urban community college
in the Northwest, may have influenced professional practice. Research
subjects were ...
The study established how community college leaders establish connections
with other community leaders. Connections that form broad and inclusive networks
can be used to develop positive social capital in communities. ...
The purpose of this study was to produce data and information that inform California
Community College decision-makers of: (a) extent of variance in California's associate
degree definitions and graduation requirements ...
From 1990 to 2000, Oregon community colleges experienced a shift in
their revenue sources from primarily local taxes to primarily state funding.
Additionally during this time Oregon approved term limits for state offic ...
The purpose of this study was to identify the strategies and tactics
community college presidents used to influence state legislators. Selected State
Board for Community and Technical Colleges staff and legislative sta ...
Today's community colleges are challenged to respond to rapidly
changing internal and external environments. Their responses must promote highly
responsive and relevant programs and services, while keeping intact the s ...
The purpose of this study is to describe the factors and issues surrounding development of one community college baccalaureate degree program, the three-year Bachelor of Manufacturing Technology at Westark College in Ark ...
The purpose of this study was to understand the individual
experiences of four adult literacy practitioners, Anne, Bill, Candy, and Emily,
in the first cohort of the Oregon Field-Based Cohort Master's Program. This
pr ...
The purpose of this study is to explore, through their own voices, the higher
education experiences of selected urban American Indian females in California
community colleges. This study is an attempt to identify pathw ...
As demands for major, system-wide reforms in the American welfare system are being
called for on an almost daily basis, it has become increasingly necessary to identify and
evaluate those programs which have attempted ...
College governance is a function of structure and of how people act within that
structure. Organizational strategies no longer identify administrations as monopolies
that possess all of the good ideas. Recent organizat ...
In 1990, the Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges moved to an
accreditation model based on outcomes, their assessment and deliberative attempts at
institutional change and improvement. No study existed in nort ...
This autoethnographic research explores learning, teaching, and
leading from the perspective of an adult woman who is both a nontraditional
student and a non-traditional worker in the academy. Because
she returned to ...
The purpose of this study was to discern the nature of legislators' perceptions about community colleges' abilities to generate revenues through alternative funding sources and the resultant effects on state allocations ...
Living by the Wayside and Other Stories explores the tension
between control and dependence and how that tension affects the ability to
sustain intimate relationships. These are stories about women who
struggle for in ...
The era of "customer satisfaction" brings students to colleges who are increasingly
identifying themselves as customers. Competition among a growing number of institutions and
learning organizations is sharpening the d ...
According to Blackwell, Miniard, and Engel (2001), "[c]ulture has a profound
effect on why and how people buy and consume products and services" (p. 320). In
the present study, Hofstede's classifications of national cu ...
Critics of higher education urge educators to transform their institutions so as to align them with the needs of the twenty-first-century learner. However, colleges desiring to survive in a rapidly changing external envi ...