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  • Exploring definitions of student success throughout community colleges in the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

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    McBeth, Scott S.
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    The topic of student success is beginning to grow in popularity throughout the United States. Student success has a wide variety of definitions ranging from a direct definition of graduation to an indirect definition of a student setting a goal of finishing a class successfully. Now there are stakeholders such...
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    stakeholder groups included: (a) Instructors, (b) VP, Executive Deans, and Presidents, (c) Board members, (d

  • The Experiences of Multiracial Latinx Students in Community Colleges: The Impact of Faculty and Student Interactions

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    Arrieta, Corinne L.
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    Background: As the number of multiracial individuals in the United States continues to grow, institutions of higher education have also seen an increase in enrollment of multiracial students. Subsequently, there has also been an increase in studies on multiracial identity and the effects of campus climate on multiracial students. Although...
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    experience racism, but not in a uniform way (d) connections with faculty, staff, and peers of color matter

  • Mentorship and Student Self-efficacy

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    Williams, MaryJean Harris
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    Background: The United States has been under-producing college graduates since at least 1980, with many challenges suppressing students’ self-efficacy. One approach to improving student outcomes is through mentorship. This dissertation applied Bandura’s Social Cognitive Theory (SCT) and Kram’s Mentor Relationship Development Theory (MRD) to discover whether students’ campus mentorship experiences...
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    press on. This is for my mother, D. Gene Ernst Harris, who taught me to think. For my sisters

  • The Experiences of Students Who Complete in a Successful Distance Learning Course

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    Smith, Steve
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    Background: Prior research has shown that distance learning courses have higher failure rates at community colleges then equivalent face-to-face to courses. There are a few programs and courses, however, that consistently achieve completion rates as high as or higher than their equivalent face-to-face courses. The research to date has not...
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  • The Effect of Recession on Community College Innovation: A Historical Analysis 2006-2011

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    Hopf, Steven J.
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    Literature on U.S. higher education includes a historical and consistent debate over adequate funding in relation to the ever-increasing challenges which require U.S. colleges to embrace change as a constant. As change continues to challenge all aspects of our society scholars and organizational leaders recognize innovation as imperative in addressing...
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    ) varying levels of resource commitments; (c) varying levels of stakeholder expectations; and (d) varying

  • Case Study : Description of a Corporate University's Operational Factors

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    Ewer, Gary
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    Corporate universities (CUs) have been in existence in the United States since the early 1900s. They are increasingly providing educational and developmental opportunities for workers; however, there is little empirical research on these types of organizations. This study examined a specific electrical distributor's CU using a theoretical framework as a...
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    implementation; and (d) finally, the partnership profile describing factors of a CU’s relationship with other

  • Changing student learning approaches in fundamental accounting education through the use of graphic organizers

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    Fisher, Paul A.
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    The field of accounting has experienced dramatic changes in the past 20 years. Advances in technology and workplace requirements have changed the responsibilities in the accounting position of a historical recorder to a functioning manager within the organization. The curriculum used by accounting instructors has not changed or kept pace...
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    .................................................................................... 139 Appendix D: Conversation Rubric

  • Post-colonialist Pathways : Building Potential for Multicultural Service Learning at Community Colleges

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    Cate, Rachael
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    Latina/o student enrollments in community colleges in the United States are rapidly growing, yet Latina/o student success rates have not matched this growth. There is a need for community college programs that serve Latina/o student populations more effectively and that incorporate multicultural educational practices into college programs. The purpose of...
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    , and values, (c) critical social consciousness, and (d) transcendent communal awareness of identity

  • Libraries and the community college baccalaureate : meeting the challenge

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    Coslor, Melinda McCormick
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    The community college baccalaureate movement has shown strong growth across the country as a strategy to meet workforce shortages. A variety of forces are driving the movement including (a) employer demand for higher credentials; (b) geographical access to education; (c) lower cost education; (d) a trained workforce to compete in...
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    education; (c) lower cost education; (d) a trained workforce to compete in the global economy; and (e) a

  • Successful Learning Rate as an Indicator of Student Success Rates : A Correlational Study

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    Ring, Jeffery R.
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    At the intersection of higher education and politics, there is demand for an easily understood measure of student success. Graduation rate is the current measure of choice, but the definition of graduation rate excludes many categories of students and types of success particularly applicable to community colleges. The purpose of...
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    best it could be. Dr. Joe Johnson, Dr. Joseph Janes, and Dr. Tracy Bentley-Townlin, thank you for