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  • Electric utility pole yard training facility : Designing an effective learning environment

    Creator:
    Topping, Robert P.
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    The primary responsibility of electric utilities is to supply consistent, dependable, and affordable energy to private customers, businesses, and industries. As with many businesses, electric utilities are experiencing the effects of an aging workforce and expending considerable resources to train their current and replacement workers. Community colleges can partner with...
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    environments for these workers, and gain access to new sources of revenue and community support for the

  • Students with disabilities in community colleges : the relationship of select demographic and academic variables to transfer

    Creator:
    Ponticelli, Jan E.
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    The original research detailed in this document recognizes that the majority of students with disabilities between 18-69 years of age will attend a community college. The literature also indicates an exponential increase for better job opportunity and earnings relative to individuals with disabilities who attain higher levels of education. This...
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    and an environment that supports the ability of SWD to persist and complete a postsecondary degree

  • The human spirit and higher education : landscapes of persistence in first generation students of color

    Creator:
    Valdez, Cristobal
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    The purpose of this study was to understand the experiences of first-generation persons of color attending and persisting at a community technical college. Students of color continue to be an increasing population in our higher education system. Many of these persons of color are choosing to attend two-year institutions. A...
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    poverty and with few or no other students of color in their school environment, persist and complete

  • Veteran Student Success : An Evaluation of Veteran Students' Perceptions of a Cohort Learning Model

    Creator:
    Campbell, Edward J.
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    In 2010 the American taxpayers spent $697 million educating veterans under the provisions of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 (commonly referred to as the GI Bill). Most veterans begin their college education at a community college. However, the number of veterans succeeding in community colleges is exceedingly low. Based...
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    of competence, autonomy, and relatedness be transferred to the community college environment and

  • Adjustments and challenges experienced by adult Hispanic students in a public technical college

    Creator:
    Suchite, Jose M.
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    Little research has been done in the area of adult Hispanics' transition to college, a complex and challenging process which marks a critical period in their lives. Research suggests adaptation difficulty may cause them to drop out of school usually before completion of the first terms. There is a lack...
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    environment. Previous research findings have shown that students who do not complete the first term of

  • The successful experiences of first generation community college transfer students

    Creator:
    McKenzie, René
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    The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to explore the successes of first generation, community college transfer students served by a TRiO/Student Support Services (TRiO/SSS) program. This study addresses a specific problem in higher education – there are a limited number of first generation transfer students who successfully matriculate...
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    ). Keyword searches were explored in several academic journals, including: Community College Journal of

  • Leading the comprehensive community college library : defining, aligning, and supporting innovation and change

    Creator:
    Reed, Donna L.
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    The purpose of this multi-case study was to describe how library deans and directors at large comprehensive community colleges strategically advocate for and support instructional and technological innovation despite the reality of limited resources and the stress caused by recurring funding crises in higher education. It further sought to examine...
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    environment, and the reality of economic constraints (Godin, 2006). The library director’s role is to align

  • The lived experience of women student mentors

    Creator:
    Rennick, Vikki
    Abstract:
    This is a phenomenological research study of the lived experience of women student mentors at one community college located in an urban setting on the West Coast. The study participants were women students who served as mentors to other women at the community college who are participants in a returning...
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    search of the Dissertations International database, journal databases such as Academic Elite and ECHOST

  • The implementation year of shared governance at a Vanguard community college

    Creator:
    Lanning, Patrick M.
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    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 organizational management approaches to governance promote inclusiveness in decision-making and are at odds with the community college's historical structures,...
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  • The Second Chance Program : A Participatory Research with Formerly Incarcerated Community College Students

    Creator:
    Macale, James R.
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    Approximately 600,000 individuals will be eventually released from the prison system and millions will be released from jails across the United States each year (Mukamal et al., 2015). Some of these individuals will make their way to a local community college to make a better life for themselves. There is...
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    with Different Level of Education: A 5-year Follow-up Study in Indiana. Justice Policy Journal, 9(1