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Whatley, Melissa; LaVenture, Suzanne – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2022
The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of US community college international education programs along with specific examples that can be implemented at community colleges wishing to establish similar offerings. This article explores especially how community colleges incorporate international education into the fabric of their…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, International Education, Study Abroad, Access to Education
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Worsham, Rachel – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2022
Beginning with the revision of the existing Comprehensive Articulation Agreement (CAA) in 2014, North Carolina policymakers have implemented several articulation agreements that create structured pathways between two- and four-year colleges. The purpose of this article is to detail the demographic makeup and post-transfer outcomes of transfer…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Transfer Students, Transfer Rates (College), Student Characteristics
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Garrett, Stacey D.; Miller, Vachel; Gilbert, Chris – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2021
This article unpacks the challenge of culturally responsive teaching in rural community colleges, based on emerging insights from a study of two community colleges in North Carolina. Culturally responsive strategies ask, how do our classrooms welcome the perspectives, voices, and distinctive cultural resources of people of color and other…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Rural Schools, Community Colleges, Cultural Influences
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Bowling, R. Edward; Morrissey, Sharon; Fouts, George M. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2014
This chapter describes the concurrent reforms occurring in North Carolina--both campus-level changes focused on such issues as developing structured programs of study and state-level reforms aimed at supporting the campus efforts.
Descriptors: Community Colleges, State Programs, Educational Change, Program Descriptions
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Ayon, Carlos – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2012
This chapter provides an annotated bibliography of articles about the effects of transfer associate degrees and related statewide transfer and articulation policies. It also provides links to transfer degree legislation in several states.
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Associate Degrees, Transfer Policy, Information Sources
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Ingram, William G.; Morrissey, Sharon E. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2009
Ethical dilemmas at the community college often pose a choice between options equally grounded in the core values of the institution. These dilemmas often emerge from disputes that are complex, dynamic, and politically volatile. We review the development of one such dispute to show how our understanding of institutional core values is often only…
Descriptors: Institutional Mission, Values, Ethics, Community Colleges