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  • Profiles in courage of community college leaders

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    Kruger, Mari L.
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    The purpose of this study is to explore the lived experience of courage among community college leaders across the United States. The following questions guided the research: (1) What is the courageous experience like for a community college leader? (2) What is the process of courage development? (3) What are...
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    experience of courage were: (a) real risks, (b) reasoned choice, (c) call to act, (d) facing adversity, (e

  • Factors supporting persistence of academically underprepared community college students

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    Pelkey, Dave
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    The purpose of this study is to identify factors that support the likelihood of persistence of academically underprepared community college students to 45 college level credits. Factors considered in this research include: (a) race/ethnicity, (b) age, (c) enrollment status, (d) socio-economic status (SES), (e) first quarter GPA, (f) developmental need,...
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    considered in this research include: (a) race/ethnicity, (b) age, (c) enrollment status, (d) socio-economic

  • Forging their way : the experience of single fathers on a community college campus

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    Cook, Tim S.
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    The purpose of this study was to understand the experiences of single fathers attending a community college. Single fathers comprise one-fifth of all single parent families, yet little research has been done on this growing segment of the population. A phenomenological approach was utilized to examine the attributes, needs, and...
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    viewed their identity and their definition of masculinity changed. Prior to attending community college

  • Developing self-efficacy and self-regulated learning in academic planning : applying social cognitive theory in academic advising to assess student learning outcomes

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    Erlich, Richard J.
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    This dissertation demonstrates how Social Cognitive Theory (Bandura, 1986, 1997) can be successfully applied to Counselor academic advising interventions, in order to increase students' self-efficacy and self-regulated learning (Zimmerman, 2000) in academic planning as learned outcomes. This was accomplished by (a) reviewing the academic advising literature and showing the current...
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    learning; and finally (d) demonstrating how these changes were influenced by Counselor interventions

  • Perceptions of Senior Student Affairs Officers on the State of Student Learning Outcomes Assessment

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    Lang, Heather
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    Institutions of higher education are increasingly being held accountable and experiencing pressure to demonstrate how well their students are achieving intended learning outcomes. External and internal influences fuel this pressure. After decades of rhetoric on student learning outcomes assessment there remains a question of whether the practice has been fully...
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    practice; (b) factors that facilitate assessment practice; (c) reality versus aspiration; (d) knowledge

  • Factors Associated with Job Satisfaction among Foreign-Born Faculty at Community Colleges within the United States

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    Moore, Marian
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    Job satisfaction has received considerable attention within the community college sector, but there is limited research focused solely on the job satisfaction of foreign-born faculty members employed at community colleges. The purpose of this study was to examine factors associated with job satisfaction among foreign-born faculty members employed at U.S....
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    foreign-born faculty members at community colleges? (d) are there significant differences in the overall

  • Moving from good to great: how one community college made the transition

    Creator:
    Hansen, Eric J.
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    The purpose of this study is to explore the applicability of Collins’ (2001) Good-to-Great theory, as originally introduced for the business sector and as adapted for the social sector, to the ways a community college moved from being “good” to being “great.” The following questions guided the research: (1) Which...
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    , (d) The Hedgehog Concept – Simplicity within the Three Circles, (e) A Culture of Disciplined

  • Faculty perspectives on diversity curriculum

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    Ayala, Javier Ivan
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    This research addresses how instructors move from surface levels of diversity understanding to deep levels. The focus was higher education instructors who taught in a general education program, primarily teaching freshman students. The case location is at a public institution on the West coast. Using the literature on diversity and...
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    prior exposures to critical pedagogy. An additional focus was how critical pedagogy could be applied

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

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    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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    postsecondary education, will attend a community college; and (d) students with disabilities are less likely

  • Test of English as a foreign language (TOEFL) : good indicator for student success at Community Colleges?

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    Ng, Jacob N. K.
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    Community colleges in the United States have become an important educational destination for international students. According to the Institute of International Education (IIE, 2006), international students who enrolled for the first time at a U.S. campus increased by 8 per cent, from 131,946 students in 2004/2005 to 142,923 in 2005/2006....
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    place a primary emphasis on achieving through TOEFL prior to their 3 admission to American