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Creator:: Sipe, Deborah M.
Abstract:: Research on higher education during the period 1990 to 2013 has suggested that U.S. higher education institutions were significantly impacted by a number of global forces, including an increase in the movement of goods, information, and people across borders. During the same period, a measurable increase occurred in the number...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: urban, suburban, and rural institutions. Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 35 (1-2

Creator:: McBeth, Scott S.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: from (a) moving the student toward their goals whatever they may be and (b) applying knowledge of

Creator:: Boyse, Peter Dent
Abstract:: This study examined the role perceptions of trustees in the locally controlled Oregon community college system and the state controlled Washington community college system. Authorities in the literature were consulted to define the "ideal trustee role" and the study determined which governance system was most effective in fostering this "ideal...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: the relationship between trustee personal characteristics and these role perceptions AN ABSTRACT OF

Creator:: Howard, Lorraine Harris
Abstract:: The primary purpose of this study was to determine whether there were significant differences between Oregon community college collegiate freshmen and Oregon State University freshmen in terms of interest, values, and manifest needs. The study was limited to a representative sample of the freshman population in the lower-division collegiate program...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: community college females were those of the females in business and technology. Responses on the Study

Creator:: Smart, Ann Dillie
Abstract:: The purpose of this investigation was to examine the influence of selected historical, fiscal, and organizational factors on enrollment patterns in Oregon Community Colleges during the academic years 1978-79, 1981-82, and 1984-85. Oregon was selected insofar as it is one of the few remaining states which observes the principle of...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: of the few remaining states which observes the principle of local control and maintains state

Creator:: Beebe, Anthony E.
Abstract:: Community colleges have long been thought of as the "people's college." For some thirty years, Oregonians have looked to their 16 community colleges as the less expensive, more accessible route to a college education. Oregon's community colleges have traditionally had the broad mission of providing comprehensive educational opportunities to all...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: leaders and the community college mission of open educational access. The study employed a Tylerian

Creator:: McDermott, Eve L.
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions of participants involved in one community college's strategic planning process in which faculty, administrators, and staff at all levels of the organization were encouraged to participate. Data were collected through direct observation, focus group interviews, analysis of institutional documents, and...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: workers. Corporations have the advantage of specific up-to-date technology and equipment that a

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