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A two-year college and four-year university degree partnership program that facilitates baccalaureate attainment

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:: null hypotheses were tested: 1. Null hypothesis. There are no statistically significant differences

Women engineering transfer students : the community college experience

Creator:: Patterson, Susan J.
Abstract:: An interpretative philosophical framework was applied to a case study to document the particular experiences and perspectives of ten women engineering transfer students who once attended a community college and are currently enrolled in one of two university professional engineering programs. This study is important because women still do not...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: instruction, and student survival strategies and support. Common thematic experiences supporting the affect

An assessment of the attitudes and opinions of administrators, content faculty, developmental faculty, and students concerning the developmental education needs of community college students

Creator:: Stetson, Leo Dean
Abstract:: The purpose of the study, which was conducted at Chemeketa Community College in Salem, Oregon, was threefold: 1. to assess the attitudes and opinions of administrators, content faculty, developmental faculty, and students concerning developmental education needs of community college students. 2. to develop a questionnaire which could serve as a...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Implications for Further Research 89 REFERENCES 91 APPENDICES Appendix A, Facsimile of a Memorandum Sent to

An analysis of mediating factors, perceptions, and personnel related to strategic change in community college based small business development centers

Creator:: Bombardier, Louis
Abstract:: The purpose of this study is to examine the events and activities that triggered strategic and large-scale changes in four community college based Small Business Development Centers. A review of the literature in organizational theory and community college education was used to form an integrated conceptual scheme which could be...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: characteristics of the events triggering the change process; and (c) when there is no agreement among key

Sustaining systems of relationships : the essence of the physical learning environment that supports and enhances collaborative, project-based learning at the community college level

Creator:: Wolff, Susan J.
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to: (a) determine the design features of the physical learning environment that support and enhance collaborative, project-based learning at the community college level; and (b) to gain an understanding of the rationale for the selection of the features. The characteristics of the physical environment...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Studio ............................................................ 139 Analysis of Phase III

Chunking professional-technical programs to create pathways to degree completion in community colleges

Creator:: Dins, Kate
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to explore the phenomenon of community colleges creating pathways to degree completion in professional-technical programs by breaking degree programs into smaller portions, referred to as "chunks." The purpose or possible advantage of chunking was that it would improve the rate of degree completion among...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: , and are sometimes disheartened to find that they have no transferable credits. Summary I have

Early Math Enrollment in Washington State Community Colleges

Creator:: Harri, Ed J.
Abstract:: More than half of students in Washington state community colleges enroll in developmental mathematics, but a relatively small percentage of these students persist to the second year. Many students place into these courses and never enroll; others enroll at some point after the first academic term, even when faced with...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: that the data suggested no benefits for delayed enrollment in needed developmental coursework and

Public trust / private interest : practical and philosophical issues for community colleges and their contract education programs

Creator:: Lindstrom, Eric L.
Abstract:: Community colleges are being pressured to increase their direct support of the economic development agendas of their communities, their states, and even the nation. These pressures develop both externally and internally, and are exacerbated when increased demands for access to community college education must be met with chronically flat-lined or...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: and leadership, (2) student development, (3) instruction and faculty, (4) curriculum and programs

Strategic problem solving in the community college : an analytic model

Creator:: Pearson, Geraldine Helen
Abstract:: The purpose of the study was to determine if a model could be created which would describe and prescribe a superior method for strategic problem solving in the community college. A review of the literature in business and industry was used to extrapolate a model which might describe the decision...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: decisions so that they will have the greatest usefulness or value. . . . No problem exists unless there is

A procedural model for assessing functional characteristics of effective and less effective work groups within a selected community college

Creator:: Kleine, Carroyl Fayne
Abstract:: The major purpose of this study was to develop and test a procedural model for assessing work group effectiveness in a community college. The model required a process to identify differences and commonalities among work groups perceived to be effective and those perceived to be less effective. In addition, this...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: structure one often finds three distinct types of work units--those that provide instruction, those that

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A two-year college and four-year university degree partnership program that facilitates baccalaureate attainment

Women engineering transfer students : the community college experience

An assessment of the attitudes and opinions of administrators, content faculty, developmental faculty, and students concerning the developmental education needs of community college students

An analysis of mediating factors, perceptions, and personnel related to strategic change in community college based small business development centers

Sustaining systems of relationships : the essence of the physical learning environment that supports and enhances collaborative, project-based learning at the community college level

Chunking professional-technical programs to create pathways to degree completion in community colleges

Early Math Enrollment in Washington State Community Colleges

Public trust / private interest : practical and philosophical issues for community colleges and their contract education programs

Strategic problem solving in the community college : an analytic model

A procedural model for assessing functional characteristics of effective and less effective work groups within a selected community college

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