The purpose of the study was to examine students' levels of engagement in educational practices by enrollment status, time of enrollment, and size of college in community colleges. Specifically, this study assessed the ...

High attrition rates of African American college students' is a continuing concern of higher education administrators. This is particularly true of African American men attending community college. African American men ...

The purpose of this qualitative study is to examine the perceptions of African American males participating in one 4A program at a Mid-Atlantic community college. Twenty African American males along with six staff members ...

American community colleges are hiring contractual, part-time faculty members to meet the instructional and financial needs on their campuses. The colleges rely heavily on part-time employees to satisfy changing course ...

This sequential explanatory mixed-methods study determined whether the game of chess can be used as an educational tool to improve critical thinking skills of developmental mathematics students and improve mathematics ...

This study explored how community college presidents understood spirituality as part of a community college institution. Using a purposive criterion sample, five community college presidents were interviewed in the natural ...

As concern grows about the level of college completion in the U.S., higher education leaders are seeking ways to help more students attain their educational objectives. This study sought to aid that effort by determining ...

This dissertation built upon George Kuh’s theory of student engagement and demonstrated that it must be expanded to be meaningful by including the ramifications of intersectionality. Ex post facto data were drawn from a ...

The purpose of this quantitative study was to use Kuh’s (2001) student engagement theory to examine the relationship between the Student-Faculty Interaction benchmark on the Community College Survey of Student Engagement ...

The purpose of this qualitative case study is to examine how African American men at three community colleges in Georgia perceive the academic advising process and how the academic advisor influences their retention. A ...