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Journal articles on the topic "Community colleges"

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Dunn, Michael, and Arne L. Kalleberg. "Does College Focus Matter? Explaining Differences in Labor Market Outcomes among Community Colleges." Journal of Educational Issues 3, no. 1 (May 31, 2017): 189. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/jei.v3i1.11093.

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The evolution of community colleges from their origins as junior colleges to institutions with dual missions to provide both academic and workforce preparation raises questions about the impact of a college’s mission focus on their students’ labor market success. We examine this question using the 58 colleges in the North Carolina Community College system as case study for community colleges nationally. We find that students from community colleges that specialize or focus on career objectives had higher labor market earnings; about one-fifth of the variation in students’ earnings across community colleges is due to the college’s mission focus. Other community college variables also enhance students’ earnings, such as institution size as well as having single-county service areas and low proportions of remedial students.

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Crawford, Corinne, and Angela Jervis. "Community Colleges Today." Contemporary Issues in Education Research (CIER) 4, no. 8 (September 21, 2011): 29. http://dx.doi.org/10.19030/cier.v4i8.5884.

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Dr. Jill Biden, Vice President Joe Bidens wife, has been teaching in community colleges for the past 18 years. Dr. Biden believes that community colleges are uniquely American institutions where anyone who walks through the door is one step closer to realizing the American dream. This is an inspiring sentiment. However, of all the first time college students who enrolled in community college in 2003-2004, fewer than 36% earned a post-secondary credential within six years. In light of the low completion rate, one has to question whether community colleges are fulfilling their promise. In this article we will look at the recent demographics of community colleges, compare the role of community colleges to that of proprietary colleges in post secondary education and discuss promising research initiatives aimed at improving the community college system.

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Walz, Kenneth A., and Jon R. Christian. "Capstone Engineering Design Projects For Community Colleges." American Journal of Engineering Education (AJEE) 8, no. 1 (May 31, 2017): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.19030/ajee.v8i1.9958.

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Capstone engineering design courses have been a feature at research universities and four-year schools for many years. Although such classes are less common at two-year colleges, the experience is equally beneficial for this population of students. With this in mind, Madison College introduced a project-based Engineering Design course in 2007. This paper explores Madison College’s experience over the past decade offering this class. Unique challenges and opportunities for engineering design courses at two-year colleges are discussed. Our findings include several recommended practices to benefit colleges and universities at any level that are creating new engineering design courses.

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Lin, Zelong. "“Internet + Community”." Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal 6, no. 9 (October 8, 2019): 379–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.14738/assrj.69.7141.

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After the implementation of complete credit system, colleges gradually lead the class students to individualization, which is consistent with the characteristics of individualization in the Internet age. And the trend of “Internet community” constructed by Internet, from the earlier micro-blog to the current WeChat group or Moments, also provides us with new ideas on how to carry out values education for "individualized" college students under the complete credit system. The promotion of complete credit system in colleges and the trend of the "Internet community" enable colleges to effectively carry out values education of college students through a new way. Hence, colleges should, on one hand, pay more attention to the implicit education, understand and master the dissemination rules of the network platform, as well as utilize the new carrier of values education innovatively. On the other hand, colleges are also encouraged to construct the "Internet community" type education mode from the three dimensions of perfecting the community structure, adjusting the group mentality and emphasizing the guidance of public opinion.

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Crawford, Corinne, and Colin Persaud. "Community Colleges Online." Journal of College Teaching & Learning (TLC) 10, no. 1 (December 24, 2012): 75. http://dx.doi.org/10.19030/tlc.v10i1.7534.

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Presently, community colleges are bursting at the seams. In 2011, community colleges turned away more than 400,000 prospective students. In the next six years, 63 percent of all U. S. jobs will require postsecondary education. Twenty two million new workers with postsecondary degrees will be needed by 2018. Community colleges are turning increasingly to online technology to increase capacity in order to meet the surging demand for higher education attainment. In this article we will look at the role of online education in the community college setting.

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RABER, LINDA R. "COMMUNITY COLLEGES." Chemical & Engineering News 87, no. 36 (September 7, 2009): 95–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/cen-v087n036.p095.

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Lyon, Louise Ann, and Jill Denner. "Community colleges." Communications of the ACM 60, no. 12 (November 27, 2017): 24–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3152914.

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Hardy, David E., and Stephen G. Katsinas. "Classifying community colleges: How rural community colleges fit." New Directions for Community Colleges 2007, no. 137 (2007): 5–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cc.265.

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Clagett, Craig A. "Community college strategies: An outcomes typology for community colleges." Assessment Update 7, no. 4 (July 1995): 10–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/au.3650070409.

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Mountjoy, Jack. "Community Colleges and Upward Mobility." American Economic Review 112, no. 8 (August 1, 2022): 2580–630. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer.20181756.

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Two-year community colleges enroll nearly half of all first-time undergraduates in the United States, but to ambiguous effect: low persistence rates and the potential for diverting students from four-year institutions cast ambiguity over two-year colleges’ contributions to upward mobility. This paper develops a new instrumental variables approach to identifying causal effects along multiple treatment margins, and applies it to linked education and earnings registries to disentangle the net impacts of two-year college access into two competing causal margins: significant value added for two-year entrants who otherwise would not have attended college, but negative impacts on students diverted from immediate four-year entry. (JEL I23, I26, I28, J24, J31)

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Community colleges"

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Cone, Cynthia Jane. "Mental models and community college leadership." Access restricted to users with UT Austin EID Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3037011.

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O'Connor, Gavin C. "Internationalization of general education curriculum in Missouri community colleges a faculty perspective /." Diss., St. Louis, Mo. : University of Missouri--St. Louis, 2009. http://etd.umsl.edu/r4381.

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Gore, Frederic S. "Cooperation in Community Colleges." Scholar Commons, 2019. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7798.

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With the mounting pressures on institutions of higher education to do more with limited resources, the opportunity to collaborate with other colleges has emerged as a viable tool to create efficiencies and obtain valuable knowledge otherwise unattainable by an institution, even if that collaboration takes place with a competing institution. Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are critical to managing student information and college operations, but can be challenging for colleges to implement. Consortia present a unique solution to colleges to address gaps in their expertise and skills needed to achieve a successful ERP implementation. This study explores the factors that are critical to successful ERP implementations in a community college setting and aims to develop a model that will assist colleges in targeting their efforts so as to make the best use of their resources. This paper shares a set of best practices to assist community colleges in accomplishing successful ERP implementations. In addition, this paper introduces a potential solution to community colleges of using a consortium relationship with like colleges to support the ERP implementation process and best practices with regard to these consortia to successfully support these efforts. Additionally, this best practices are discussed in this paper and are a compilation from insights gained through a review of the academic literature on ERP success factors and surveys of four community colleges that had completed ERP implementations. We hope that these insights will prove beneficial to colleges contemplating the implementation of a new ERP system. We believe that this paper can also assist colleges in determining if a consortium approach to their ERP implementation would be advantageous, generating greater bargaining power for the participating colleges, providing for the sharing of information between colleges, and helping to accommodate for any deficiency in expertise.

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Hase, Karla Luan Neeley. "A Qualitative Study of the Use and Value of Financial Performance Indicators in Selected Community Colleges in the State of Texas as Perceived by their Chief Executive Officers." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1999. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2277/.

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Throughout the United States, colleges and universities are faced with an increasing need for financial funding, while at the same time resources continue to diminish. With the limitations of available funds, community colleges must exhibit efficiencies in the operations of their institutions. External interests, such as governing boards and legislatures, require demonstration of efficient financial management. This evidence is then used to make decisions concerning future financial support for the community college. This study determined if community college chief executive officers use financial performance indicators as provided by the State Auditor's Office and if the chief executive officers of the community colleges value the compilation and the distribution of the financial performance indicators. In the selected colleges, many of the chief executive officers depend on their chief financial officer for understanding and application of financial performance indicators. The performance indicators distributed by the Auditor's Office captured only a snapshot of the college's performance, and failed to fully describe the whole college performance or specific financial events captured by the indicators. Though the indicators had flaws, either through incorrect data or lack of explanation, the CEOs did value their compilation because they provided a means for ‘getting the community college story' to decision makers external to the college.The State Auditor's performance indicators were developed using a university model. Because of the distinct difference in mission between the community college and the university, several of the indicators were not applicable to the community colleges. The CEOs suggested that another set of indicators be developed, using community college input, that would better capture the financial performance of the colleges. The new set of indicators should be simplified and measure only those areas, such as revenues and expenditures, that are truly comparable from one institution to another.

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Bodily, Brett Hogan Fulton-Calkins Patsy. "Perceptions of faculty development a study of a North Texas community college /." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2008. http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-9793.

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Kyger, Betty L. Hines Edward R. Piland William E. "An investigation of the evaluation of faculty development practices in Illinois community colleges." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 1985. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p8514776.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 1985.
Title from title page screen, viewed June 8, 2005. Dissertation Committee: Edward Hines, William Piland (co-chairs), Sally Pancrazio, David Pierce, Rodney Riegle. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 155-159) and abstract. Also available in print.

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Angstadt, Peter. "Student perceptions of satisfaction in Oregon community colleges /." view abstract or download file of text, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3072575.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2002.
Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 149-157). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

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Barringer, Albert Lee. "Implementation of the Workforce Investment Act at the Houston Community College system an examination of changing college roles /." Access restricted to users with UT Austin EID Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3026193.

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White, Fredrick. "Community college finance an analysis of resource development at Mississippi's community and junior colleges /." Diss., Mississippi State : Mississippi State University, 2008. http://library.msstate.edu/etd/show.asp?etd=etd-04092008-152954.

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Wolf, Baron Guy. "COMMUNITY COLLEGE CAMPUSES AND SEXUAL MINORITIES: THE EXPERIENCE OF LGBTQ STUDENTS AT COMMUNITY COLLEGES." UKnowledge, 2018. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/epe_etds/61.

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The purpose of this study was to examine national survey data from across the United States for respondents from two-year community colleges. Historically little empirical evidence exists in the literature about this population of students who identity as sexual minorities. The study begins with a historical overview of the LGBTQ rights movement. This provides a baseline for why studies including this invisible minority group are important and especially timely for two-year college campuses. Literature is barrowed from four-year college and university studies. Data were analyzed using the Rasch Partial Credit model. This analysis included testing for data-fit to the model, evaluation of items which did not fit the model, item mapping, differential functioning based on sexual identity, and standard descriptive statistics. The aim of this analysis was to determine if harassment, discrimination, and violence on campus towards sexual minority students occur and attempt to assess the prevalence of such activities. Results indicate that there doesn’t exist differences in responses between male and female participants. However, differences exist related to campus perceptions for sexual minority students and their non-minority (heterosexual) peers.

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Books on the topic "Community colleges"

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Hosansky, David. Community Colleges. 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks California 91320 United States: CQ Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/cqresrre20150501.

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Wright, Scott W. Community Colleges. 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks California 91320 United States: CQ Press, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/cqresrre20000421.

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Boone, Edgar John. Community leadership through community-based programming: The role of the community college. Washington, DC: Community College Press, 1997.

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Levin, John S. Understanding community colleges. New York: Routledge, 2012.

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Brawer, Florence B. Community colleges international. Los Angeles, CA: ERIC Clearinghouse for Community Colleges, University of California at Los Angeles, 1996.

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El-Khawas, Elaine H. Community college fact book. New York: American Association of Community and Junior Colleges, 1988.

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Smith, Roy W. Tomorrow's community college. [S.l.]: Life Press, 1995.

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Henry, Cisneros. Community colleges and urban development. Washington, D.C: U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, 1996.

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O'Banion, Terry. Creating more learning-centered community colleges. Mission Viejo, CA: League for Innovation in the Community College, 1997.

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O'Banion, Terry. Creating more learning-centered community colleges. Mission Viejo, CA: League for Innovation in the Community College, 1997.

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Book chapters on the topic "Community colleges"

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Russell, Jason. "Community Colleges." In Making Managers in Canada, 1945–1995, 67–96. New York, NY : Routledge, 2018. | Series: Routledge international studies in business history: Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315535494-4.

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Katsinas, Stephen G., and David E. Hardy. "Rural Community Colleges." In Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, 453–520. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2950-6_10.

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Levin, John S. "The Community Colleges." In Community Colleges and New Universities under Neoliberal Pressures, 33–78. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-48020-0_2.

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Drummond, Mark. "History of Community Colleges." In Outreach Scholarship, 185–97. Boston, MA: Springer US, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0885-4_13.

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Cloud, Robert C. "Governance in Community Colleges." In The International Encyclopedia of Higher Education Systems and Institutions, 578–84. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8905-9_529.

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Cloud, Robert C. "Governance in Community Colleges." In Encyclopedia of International Higher Education Systems and Institutions, 1–6. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9553-1_529-1.

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Guthrie, Lou A., and Jeffrey A. Seybert. "Benchmarking in Community Colleges." In Handbook on Measurement, Assessment, and Evaluation in Higher Education, 114–27. Second edition. | New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.: Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315709307-11.

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Hensel, Nancy H. "Community College Partnerships." In Undergraduate Research at Community Colleges, 122–38. New York: Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003448402-11.

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Hensel, Nancy H. "Community-Based Research." In Undergraduate Research at Community Colleges, 91–106. New York: Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003448402-9.

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Postiglione, Gerard. "Community Colleges in China's Two Systems." In Community College Models, 157–71. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9477-4_10.

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Conference papers on the topic "Community colleges"

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Servin, Christian, Elizabeth K. Hawthorne, Lori Postner, Cara Tang, and Cindy Tucker. "Community Colleges Perspectives." In SIGCSE 2023: The 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3545947.3573335.

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Donnelly, Cassie. "The Community College Change Playbook: Defining Competencies for Leading Change in Community Colleges." In 2022 AERA Annual Meeting. Washington DC: AERA, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.3102/1889321.

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Casalaspi, David. "Community Colleges and Civic Engagement." In 2020 AERA Annual Meeting. Washington DC: AERA, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3102/1574358.

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Freeman-Wong, Rachel. "Institutional Support for Undocumented Students at Community Colleges: Undocumented Student Resource Centers at Community Colleges." In 2020 AERA Annual Meeting. Washington DC: AERA, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3102/1583549.

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Greeno, Darren. "Organizational Culture and Community College Performance: An Analysis of Washington State's Community and Technical Colleges." In 2021 AERA Annual Meeting. Washington DC: AERA, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3102/1687093.

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Wosczyna-Birch, Karen, Paola Jaramillo, John Birch, and Ronald Adrezin. "Problem Based Learning Initiative in Collaboration With the CT College of Technology’s Center for Life Support and Sustainable Living." In ASME 2008 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2008-66229.

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The Connecticut (CT) College of Technology with funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) has established the Center for Life Support and Sustainable Living. The Center is the result of partnerships with the CT Community Colleges, four-year institutions, local hospitals and industry, and the collaboration with NASA through the CT Space Grant College Consortium. The primary goals of the Center are the following: (1) to provide teams of community colleges and four-year university students opportunities to apply science, engineering and technology knowledge as well as professional skills necessary to be successful in future employment to real-world problems that address life support and sustainable living issues; (2) to strengthen the 2+2+2 pathways between community colleges and four-year institutions; (3) provide professional development opportunities for community college faculty; (4) implement strategies to recruit and retain a diverse population of students interested in STEM disciplines; and (5) develop multi-media curriculum modules using contextual or problem-based-case-based learning (PBCL). The project has instituted interdisciplinary teams of community college and university students who are initiated into the program with intensive instruction and project planning and management, leadership, teamwork, and behavioral diversity using DISC behavioral analysis profiles during an intense three-week period during the winter intersession. In addition to the initial training, student participants must commit to working approximately 250 hours during their school year for which they are working on their respective team-based projects. As part of their hours, they must meet as a full team a minimum of twice each month. Participating students are currently mentored by two and four-year faculty and industry representatives. So far, the research has been conducted during the summer months and the academic year on life support and sustainable living projects for NASA, the U.S. Coast Guard, medical facilities, such as the CT’s Children’s Medical Center, and industry partners such as Hamilton Sundstrand and Kaman Aerospace. As a result of these research projects, the community college and four-year faculty are implementing real-world life support and sustainable living projects and collaboratively are writing multi-media Project-Based-Case Based Learning modules, which incorporate technology and science skill standards. The Problem-Based-Case-Based multi-media modules are being piloted at the CT College of Technology’s community colleges and universities.

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Doan, Phuong, and Connie Gomez. "Multidisciplinary Problem Based Learning: Venipuncture Practice Arm Research." In ASME 2019 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2019-11978.

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Abstract Community colleges need more avenues for undergraduate research during their first two years in higher education but face challenges to building robust research namely the limited time frame students are at a community college and the limited resources for research. To maximize the limited resources and the educational experience for the students, multidisciplinary projects within the community college environment provide both engineering and science students with research opportunities that fit the schedule of a working student, allow interaction between disciplines, provide team-based environments, and foster life-long learning. This paper describes 1) a multidisciplinary project for honor chemistry and engineering students; introduction to engineering students and engineering graphics students in the development of a venipuncture practice arm for nursing students practicing venipuncture techniques in the simulation lab. 2) the institutional supports that promote the development of collaborative and multidisciplinary research projects and 3) recommendations for other community colleges interested in developing multidisciplinary research opportunities throughout their engineering and science curriculums.

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Kater, Susan. "Recommitting to Shared Governance in Community Colleges." In 2020 AERA Annual Meeting. Washington DC: AERA, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3102/1572949.

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Harbour, Clifford. "The Need for Assembly at Community Colleges." In 2020 AERA Annual Meeting. Washington DC: AERA, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3102/1574063.

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Miller, William H., David Jonassen, Rose Marra, Matthew Schmidt, Matthew Easter, Ioan Gelu Ionas, Gayla M. Neumeyer, Randy Etter, Bruce Meffert, and Christopher C. Graham. "Radiation Protection Technician Two-Year Associates of Applied Science Curriculum for National Implementation." In 16th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering. ASMEDC, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icone16-48952.

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The U.S. Department of Labor awarded a $2.3 million grant to the University of Missouri-Columbia (MU) in 2006 in response to the need for well-trained Radiation Protection Technicians (RPTs). The RPT curriculum initiative resulted from significant collaborations facilitated by MU with community colleges, nuclear power plants, professional organizations, and other nuclear industry stakeholders. The objective of the DOL project is to help increase the pool of well-qualified RPTs to enter the nuclear workforce. Our work is designed to address the nuclear industry’s well-documented, increasingly significant need for RPTs. In response to this need, MU and AmerenUE’s Callaway Nuclear Power Plant first partnered with Linn State Technical College’s Advanced Technology Center (LSTC/ATC) to initiate a two-year RPT degree program. The success of this program (enrollments have been increasing over the past four years to a Fall 2007 enrollment of 23) enabled the successful proposal to the DOL to expand this program nationwide. DOL participants include the following partners: Linn State Technical College with AmerenUE – Callaway; Central Virginia Community College with AREVA; Estrella Mountain Community College with Arizona Public Service – Palo Verde; MiraCosta Community College with Southern California Edison – San Onofre; and Hill College with Texas Utilities – Comanche Peak. The new DOL grant has allowed redevelopment of the LSTC/ATC curriculum using a web-based, scenario driven format, benchmarked against industry training standards. This curriculum will be disseminated to all partners. Integral in this curriculum is a paid, three to four month internship at a nuclear facility. Two of the six new RPT courses have been developed as of the end of 2007. Four of five partner schools are accepting students into this new program starting in the winter 2008 term. We expect that these institutions will graduate 100 new RPTs per year to help alleviate the personnel shortage in this critical area of need.

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Reports on the topic "Community colleges"

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Mountjoy, Jack. Community Colleges and Upward Mobility. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, September 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w29254.

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Ortagus, Justin, Melvin Tanner, and Isaac McFarlin. Can Re-Enrollment Campaigns Help Dropouts Return to College? Evidence from Florida Community Colleges. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, January 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w26649.

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Castro, Claudio de Moura. Os community colleges: Uma solução viável para o Brasil? Inter-American Development Bank, December 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0012189.

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Este ensaio apresenta e discute a experiência americana com os chamados Community Colleges, escolas que predominantemente oferecem cursos curtos de nível pós-secundário. O seu objetivo é descrever estas instituições da perspectiva de um país como o Brasil que está neste momento aquecendo seus motores para entrar neste tipo de cursos - de resto, tardiamente.

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Blankstein, Melissa, and Christine Wolff-Eisenberg. Library Strategy and Collaboration Across the College Ecosystem: Results from a National Survey of Community College Library Directors. Ithaka S+R, September 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.18665/sr.315922.

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How can the library be best positioned to continue enabling student and institutional success? The Community College Academic and Student Support Ecosystem research initiative seeks to examine how student-facing service departments—including academic libraries—are organized, funded, and staffed at community and technical colleges across the country. In February 2021, we surveyed 321 community college library directors to provide the community with a snapshot of current service provision, leadership perspectives on the impact of COVID-19, and challenges faced in making decisions and navigating change.

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Greenwood, Reggie, and Meghana Dharma Reddy. Electrification of Illinois Transit: Bridging the Gap with Heavy-Duty Technician Training Initiatives. Illinois Center for Transportation, June 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.36501/0197-9191/24-016.

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This report examines the evolving landscape of technician training in Illinois’ transit industry, with a particular focus on electric vehicle (EV) technology. The report aims to identify the current challenges, explore collaborative training initiatives between community colleges and transit agencies, and provide actionable recommendations to the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT). The research methodology involved a comprehensive review of training programs at Illinois community colleges. Additionally, the researchers conducted interviews with key Illinois transit agencies to understand their training challenges and needs. The study also analyzed successful EV training models and partnerships between educational institutions and the transit industry. The study found that community colleges are pioneering in developing EV training programs, while transit agencies face significant challenges in adapting to new technologies due to a reliance on equipment suppliers for training. Collaborative efforts between colleges and transit agencies show potential in developing more comprehensive training programs. However, there is a need for more standardized curricula and better-equipped training facilities. To address these challenges, the report recommends that IDOT support the standardization of EV technician training curricula. IDOT should also facilitate the provision of advanced training equipment to community colleges. Additionally, IDOT should support the establishment of a pilot specialized regional training center at Heartland Community College. This initiative will advance the quality of EV training and serve as a model for subsequent centers across the state. The insights from this report are intended to guide policy development and bolster the collaborative efforts of educational institutions and transit authorities in nurturing a workforce skilled in technology. This endeavor aims to synchronize training programs and curricula across institutions, fostering a cohesive and continuous educational pathway. The collaboration is set to cultivate an extensive partnership among community colleges and with transit agencies that develop standardized curriculum with needed training equipment and apprenticeships.

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Curran, Geoffrey M. Linking Returning Veterans in Rural Community Colleges to Mental Health Care. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, January 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada614429.

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Long, Bridget Terry, and Michal Kurlaender. Do Community Colleges provide a Viable Pathway to a Baccalaureate Degree? Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, September 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w14367.

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Cragg, Stephan. International Education in the Public Community Colleges of Oregon and Washington. Portland State University Library, January 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.15760/etd.1289.

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Verdisco, Aimee, Andrés Bernasconi, and Claudio de Moura Castro. Community Colleges: Is There a Lesson in Them for Latin America? Inter-American Development Bank, October 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0008788.

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As secondary education in Latin America and the Caribbean expands its reach and more attention is given to the post-secondary level, new demands are placed on educators and ministries. New methods of teaching will have to be found, new markets for graduates will have to be identified, and better targeting mechanisms for matching students with the market's real demand for labor will have to be defined and implemented. In short, the very definition of secondary and post-secondary education will have to be reexamined. It is in this regard that the community college model prevalent in the United States and Canada merits closer examination. Several countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have experience introducing short post-secondary courses and nonuniversity institutions, sometimes as a result of private initiative, sometimes as a matter of public policy. Europe and North American models have inspired these innovations. Yet, this paper contends that more needs to be done in this area, in all countries and it explores in depth the model of the community college as an interesting source of ideas and relevant responses to changes in the social and economic landscape of the region. It also explores the potential the community college model holds for Latin America. The author's hope is that countries and institutions will look at this model not as something that should be necessarily imitated, but for inspiration and as an opportunity to reflect on the relevance and effectiveness of the current supply of post-secondary education and training.

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Stevens, Ann Huff, Michal Kurlaender, and Michel Grosz. Career Technical Education and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from California Community Colleges. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, April 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w21137.

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