Uniquely called: African American community college presidents promoting equitable student success

Two Profiles of Women Community College Presidents

Community College Management Practices That Promote Student Success

There has been surprisingly little rigorous research on institutional effectiveness in community colleges. Even the much larger body of research on institutional effectiveness among baccalaureate-granting institutions in general tells us more about the student characteristics and institutional features (e.g., selectivity, size, resources) associated with positive student outcomes than about the...

An integrated model of early community college student success: understanding success in developmental mathematics

The purpose of this study was to integrate traditional student success models with theories which focus on nontraditional students to create a model of early community college student success. The researcher sought to understand the pre-college behaviors, attitudes, and attributes, from both cognitive and noncognitive domains, which influence the success of first-time community college students...

Community College Student Success Inventory (CCSSI) for Men of Color in Community Colleges: Content Validation Summary

This study reports on the content validation of the Community College Student Success Inventory (CCSSI) for Men of Color. The CCSSI was designed to be used by community colleges to assess their effectiveness in addressing success outcomes for men who have been historically underrepresented and underserved in education, particularly men of color. A panel of subject matter experts (SMEs) rated th...

Promoting Student Success in Online Courses

Online education has become popular as an effective method of imparting knowledge to a wide audience efficiently and at low cost. Unlike traditional ”offline” courses, online courses open up the possibility of fine-grained tracking and monitoring of students’ activities, progress and performance. In turn, this creates the possibility of of analyzing the factors involved in student success, rete...