Becky Warren, May 2024
Community colleges face enrollment declines, student performance, and accountability metrics, the need to support nontraditional students’ career paths, and constraints imposed by limited resources. Community college leadership would benefit from …Continue Reading Time to Complete an Associate Degree: A Comparison of Nontraditional GED Graduates and Traditional High School Graduates (A Preregistered Study)
Christopher McBeath, May 2024
Increasing graduation rates continues to be a high priority for administrators at community colleges nationwide. While several factors affect graduation rates, many researchers focus on how…Continue Reading Guided Pathways: How Early Major Declaration Impacts Student Graduation Rates
Randy Scaggs, May 2023
This qualitative study will investigate the unintended consequences of implementing structural change in a rural community college in the mid-South region of the United States. Specifically, this study will…Continue Reading The Cost of Organizational Change for Rural Community Colleges
Joy Bauer, August 2022
The rapid spread of COVID-19 during the spring of 2020 warranted an unprecedented change as faculty were required to convert course content and quickly learn to use new instructional technology in order to …Continue Reading Community College Faculty Members’ Experiences using Instructional Technology: The Sudden Transition to Emergency Remote Teaching