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Perkins, Derrick A. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Community colleges are Black males' primary pathway to higher education. Less than a third of Black males, however, are likely to attain a certificate or degree within 6 years. Although no single intervention can formally improve their academic trajectory, interventions absent of culturally and gender-specific approaches and institutional…
Descriptors: African American Students, Males, Community College Students, Academic Persistence
Tammy J. Dycus – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this quantitative, non-experimental study was to explore the relationship between the implementation of the Tennessee Promise scholarship program and the two-year Tennessee community college retention rates and graduation rates of first-time, full-time Tennessee students from rural Appalachian counties. Results from this study may…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Graduation Rate, School Holding Power, Scholarships
Peter M. Fulks – ProQuest LLC, 2023
There is a strident body of empirical research evidence that Higher Education in Prison (HEP) has a direct impact on reducing recidivism. Additionally for participants, it also increases the economic mobility and employability post-release. However, the ability to conduct randomly controlled trials with a distal measurement of recidivism is…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Correctional Education, Correctional Institutions, Instructional Effectiveness
Jared Burns – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This research study was conducted to determine if there was a difference in community college graduation rates based on aggregate faculty hires, aggregate faculty retention and community college size. The study employed a non-experimental quantitative research design with three independent variables (aggregate faculty new hires, aggregate faculty…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Graduation Rate, Teacher Persistence, Personnel Selection
Tanya Woltmann – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation examined the relationship between participation in an academic coaching program and retention for community college students enrolled in developmental education courses. With low retention and completion rates for students beginning in developmental courses, support programs to improve student success are needed. This…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Developmental Studies Programs, School Holding Power, Relationship
Larry, Jacqueline Ann Jackson – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Title III Strengthening Institutions Program is a supplemental grant that was designed to help eligible higher education institutions improve and strengthen academic quality, institutional management, and fiscal stability of eligible institutions. A community college in the Midsouth region was the focus of this quantitative study. Graduation and…
Descriptors: Supplementary Education, School Holding Power, Community Colleges, College Freshmen
Anderson, Julia – ProQuest LLC, 2023
A local community college was experiencing poor retention rates among African American students, an issue that has challenged community colleges across the United States. To improve this group's retention, college administrators instituted a mentoring program; however, they later indicated a need to better understand which mentoring strategies…
Descriptors: African American Students, Student Attitudes, Community College Students, Mentors
Abraham, Angeles – ProQuest LLC, 2023
California community colleges have a completion crisis problem, with over 70% of students failing to graduate. This study was conducted to identify effective support services in the Extended Opportunity Programs and Services (EOPS) program, which serves marginalized community college students. This EOPS program study surveyed almost 2,000 EOPS…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, Student Personnel Services, Minority Group Students
Shannon Bennett Hausinger – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Higher education persistence and retention rates have been scrutinized more than ever before, at both the state and national levels. Student success and completion rates are central to funding formulas, and this is specifically true for community colleges in Texas. This study examined the role of library instruction on community college student…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Information Literacy, English, English Curriculum
Kirton, Alicia Tracey – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Purpose: This study explores the challenges facing FGCSs and seeks to provide strategies, opportunities, and novel and actionable insights for increasing retention and graduation rates among FGCSs in community colleges during and post the COVID-19 pandemic period. The study further identifies whether and how the COVID-19 pandemic magnified these…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, First Generation College Students, Barriers
Alicia Briancon – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Institutions of higher education grapple with low retention rates, including community colleges, which have even lower rates. Historically, retention barriers include financial reasons, transportation issues, or lack of motivation. However, investigating the institution's role is also important. Institutional barriers come in the form of…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community College Students, College Faculty, Teacher Student Relationship
Slusher, Max – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The increasing number of part time instructors in the community college professorate combined with low student retention and graduation rates makes research into part time faculty and student success highly germane. My dissertation investigated if higher ratios of adjunct faculty were related to student retention, certificate/degree attainment,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Faculty, Part Time Faculty, Community College Students
Al Naber, Nour – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The retention rate in online classes is significantly lower than traditional classes especially in subjects like accounting. More than 40% of the students who were enrolled in online Accounting 101 courses either dropped or failed the course (internal data, 2020). There is a need to identify best practices to increase retention in online classes…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Certification, Electronic Learning, School Holding Power
Carey Harold Brown – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study examined areas of concern within the community college level of higher education affecting the retention and attrition rates of African American male first-year students at three community colleges in the state of New Jersey. It used a four-stage investigative design to identify variable factors that are correlated to retention and…
Descriptors: Community College Students, African American Students, Males, Success
Cassidy Ladd-Minx – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study analyzed the impacts of participation in short-term study abroad programs at Oklahoma community colleges through a quantitative research design. Student retention and degree completion are concerns for all types of higher education institutions, but U.S. community colleges experience an even greater struggle to retain students from…
Descriptors: School Holding Power, Educational Attainment, Study Abroad, Program Effectiveness