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Creator:: Balzer, Jacqueline
Abstract:: 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 college and four-year university. This qualitative research study, telling the stories and lived experiences of six students participating in a community...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Narrative Structure (Clandinin & Connelly, 2000)…………………………………………. 61 7: Schedule of the Research

Creator:: Neimann, Theresa
Abstract:: Background: Latina students are underrepresented and undereducated in rural community colleges. There are gaps in rural community college research specifically focusing on Latina retention. This research identified the factors detracting from and/or enhancing the college experience for Latinas in rural community colleges. Purpose: The purpose of the study was to...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: term of credit bearing classes at a rural community college in the Pacific Northwest. Research Design

Creator:: Hattendorf, Bruce J.
Abstract:: This phenomenological study explores the effects that an interdisciplinary program of study at a community college has on students once they transfer to a four-year institution. Interdisciplinary approaches have been proposed as a way of meeting the complex thinking skills needed for 21st Century learning. Because interdisciplinary learning is complex,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: thinking, writing, research, and making general connections among classes, student perceptions of

Creator:: Hindman, Lynne L.
Abstract:: Baccalaureate attainment represents an important goal among educators and policymakers. The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education has stated that affordability and transfer are critical to increasing baccalaureate attainment, and that community colleges have a critical role in this transfer process. On the other hand, some researchers disagree...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: -OSU Degree Partnership Program (DPP). I am also very appreciative of the opportunity that I had to

Creator:: Hopf, Samantha NJ.
Abstract:: Academic advising is an integral step in a community college students higher education journey, and as such must be supported with any tools available to increase student success. Technology is becoming more highly integrated into the academic advising process as are online tools which provide access to student records, course...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: to explore the lived experiences of students enrolled in a large metropolitan multi-campus

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