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Theis, John J. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2016
This chapter describes the uncomfortable marriage between political science and civic education and calls for a reformulation of how we engage students in the wicked problems of democracy.
Descriptors: Political Science, Citizen Participation, Democracy, Citizenship Education
Grubbs, Samuel Jacob – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2021
There has been growing national political interest in promoting community college education as a way of improving economic opportunities for disadvantages members of local workforces. Recent work mainly focuses on human capital gains, but few studies have investigated how community college credentials can affect the level of job prestige…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Academic Degrees, Reputation
Nienhusser, H. Kenny; Connery, Chelsea – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2021
The higher education policy implementation landscape has substantially shaped postsecondary education opportunities for undocumented youth, who are already negatively affected by discriminatory public policies, and institutional agents, who are often unprepared to address their needs. Guided by Bressers's contextual interaction theory that…
Descriptors: College Students, Undocumented Immigrants, Educational Policy, Educational Opportunities
Adrienne E. Preddie – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Political skill has been defined as an informal set of behaviors that strive to influence and understand others, interpret social clues, appear sincere and trustworthy, and political skill is frequently used to gain knowledge for both personal and organizational achievement of goals (Kimura, 2015; Ferris et al., 2017). Research suggests that…
Descriptors: Females, Higher Education, Leadership, Community Colleges
Brown, Malcolm; McCormack, Mark; Reeves, Jamie; Brooks, D. Christopher; Grajek, Susan – EDUCAUSE, 2020
In assuming ownership of the Horizon Report, EDUCAUSE recognized the challenges of anticipating the future. The authors have, in this first major revision of the report's methodology, structure, and content, striven to break the mold of the classic Horizon Report without losing its essential purpose. The report begins with a scan of the current…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Technology, Technology Integration, Technology Uses in Education
Kisker, Carrie B.; Weintraub, Dayna S.; Newell, Mallory Angeli – Community College Review, 2016
Objective: Ideally, community colleges both democratize opportunity and develop in students the civic skills necessary to meaningfully participate in a democratic society. This national pilot study examines the individual and institutional factors associated with greater civic agency, capacity, behavior, and knowledge among students after at least…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year Colleges, Two Year College Students, Pilot Projects
Smarick, Andy – Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, 2023
Although most education policy decisions are made at the state level, America has been having a national debate over the future of our schools for the last several years. Arguments have raged over COVID-related closures and the resultant student learning loss, Critical Race Theory, school funding, parental choice, college debt, and more. The 2022…
Descriptors: State Government, Government Employees, Elections, Educational Policy
Bastedo, Michael N., Ed.; Altbach, Philip G., Ed.; Gumport, Patricia J., Ed. – Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023
Whether it is advances in information technology, organized social movements, or racial inequality and social class stratification, higher education serves as a lens for examining significant issues within American society. First published in 1998, "American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century" offers a comprehensive…
Descriptors: Higher Education, COVID-19, Pandemics, Race
Blake-Campbell, Barbara – Community College Enterprise, 2014
Study abroad is rapidly becoming an academic priority for any program in higher education. The need for American students to broaden their perspective of the interdependent and interconnected world is so important that global learning is being introduced at all levels of the academic pipeline. As a result of this urgency, foreign shores steadily…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Higher Education, Cultural Awareness, Competence
Lovell, Darrell; Khatri, Cassandra – Journal of Political Science Education, 2021
Simulation methodology has moved toward using different types of real-world scenario-based learning constructs to improve applied understanding of political science concepts and theories. This type of active learning has become popular in the upper divisions of undergraduate and graduate political science. This reflection addresses the variance in…
Descriptors: Political Science, Community Colleges, Introductory Courses, Simulation
Matthews, Kristin; Hullinger, Hallet – Journal of Political Science Education, 2019
Political self-efficacy is the belief that one can influence political processes and is an indicator of society's political health. Although political self-efficacy may change over time, education is a powerful influence. Emphasizing civic and general education functions, the community college provided a unique environment to study student…
Descriptors: United States Government (Course), Introductory Courses, Required Courses, Self Efficacy
Schudde, Lauren; Jabbar, Huriya; Hartman, Catherine – Sociology of Education, 2021
Broad higher education contexts shape how community college students and postsecondary personnel approach transfer from community colleges to baccalaureate-granting institutions. We leverage the concept of strategic action fields, an organizational theory illuminating processes that play out as actors determine "who gets what" in an…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Transfer Students, Transfer Policy
El Halwany, Sarah; Alsop, Steve – International Journal of Science Education, 2023
Recognising effects of care departs from previous conceptions of care within science education as an idealised, ethical, and normative dimension of being, thinking and relating. In this article, we hesitate with care's moralistic qualities to render visible disruptive and complicit moments of care in complex ethical and political situated…
Descriptors: Ethics, Political Attitudes, Microbiology, Science Instruction
Yanus, Alixandra B.; O'Connor, Karen; Weakley, Jon L. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2012
Community colleges occupy a growing role in the American education system. Their unique cross-section of students poses a challenge for teachers of political science. This paper uses information from a survey completed by over 2,000 students at 20 colleges and universities across the United States to shed light on some of the most significant…
Descriptors: Political Science, Community Colleges, Institutional Characteristics, Student Surveys
Brennan, Michael – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The literature differentiates between globalization and internationalization, but views the two phenomena as inextricably linked. Globalization is defined as a set of imposing economic and political forces that demand higher education pursue increased levels of international engagement (Altbach & Knight, 2007, p. 290); and has been explained…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, International Education, Partnerships in Education, College Presidents