Download or read book Perceptions of the Adequacy and Effectiveness of Two California Community College Counseling and Advising Programs for African American Students with Transfer Goals written by Ingrid R. Coco Williams and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstracts of dissertations available on microfilm or as xerographic reproductions.
Download or read book Analysis of Student Satisfaction with Academic Advising counseling Services written by Erica R. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Assessing Effectiveness and Economic Efficiency in California Community College Transfer Advising written by Duane D. Short and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This applied dissertation was designed to assess the effect of student participation in community college-based transfer advising programs on the resultant levels of effectiveness and economic efficiency in California's public higher education system. The outcomes of a representative transfer advising program at a California Community College campus were evaluated through the use of a nonequivalent control group research design measuring the differences in the resultant levels of transfer effectiveness, transfer course efficiency, and transfer cost efficiency between subjects who participated in the transfer advising program and subjects who did not. The results indicated a statistically significant 14.47% difference in transfer effectiveness (i.e., transfer rate) between transfer advising program participants and non-participants, X[superscript 2] (1, N = 115) = 4.9793, p = .0257. No significant difference was found in the overall levels of transfer course efficiency (t = 1.1966, p = .2343) or transfer cost -efficiency (t = 1.1933, p = .2355) between the two groups. However, additional analysis revealed that program participants completed, on average, 3.51 more units of coursework fulfilling university requirements prior to transfer than program non-participants did (t = - 2.6547, p = .0101). This resulted in an average taxpayer cost savings of $658.11 per program participant (t = 2.4253, p = .0182) due to the completion of this coursework at the lower-cost CCC system. These results indicate that student participation in community college-based transfer advising programs has a positive effect on the resultant levels of effectiveness and economic efficiency in California's public higher education system. This study provides an example of how the expenditure of public funds in higher education can be tied to measurable, effective, and cost efficient outcomes. Systemic efficiencies such as those generated by transfer advising programs are necessary if California's higher education system is to increase graduation rates without a concurrent increase in cost. The expansion of such effective and cost efficient programs to greater numbers of students seems indicated by these results. (Contains 7 tables, 7 figures, and an appendix showing the Completed Research Instrument.).
Download or read book Beyond Free College written by Eileen L. Strempel and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-01-15 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond Free College outlines an audacious national agenda—consistent with, but far more comprehensive than, the current “free college” movement—that builds on the best of US higher education’s populist history such as the G.I. Bill and the community college transfer function. The authors align a wide constellation of higher education trends—online learning, prior learning assessment, competency-based learning, high school college-credit— with a rapidly shifting student transfer environment that privileges college credit as the pivotal educational catalyst to boost access and completion. The book’s agenda seeks greater productive investment in postsecondary education by privileging a single metric—lower-cost-per-degree-granted—as the animating driver of a transfer pathway that will fulfill the potential of its historical, progressive innovators. Beyond Free College’s goal is as simple as it is urgent: To galvanize higher education advocates in an effort to reorganize, reorient, and reignite the transfer function to serve the needs of a neotraditional student population that now constitutes the majority of college-goers in America; and in ways that advance completion, not just access to higher education.
Download or read book Building Pathways to Transfer written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Study of Student Perceptions of the Effectiveness of Transfer Services Offered at Two California Community Colleges written by Patricia Ann Hurley and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Role of Academic Advisors in Facilitating a Successful Transfer written by Jagmeet Kaur Judge and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Making the Future Different written by University of California (System). Task Force on Black Student Eligibility and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Assessing Effectiveness and Economic Efficiency in California Community College Transfer Advising written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assessing effectiveness and economic efficiency in California Community College transfer advising.
Download or read book Transfer Students Trends and Issues written by Frankie Santos Laanan and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 2001-08-20 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The summer 2001 issue of New Directions for Community Colleges evaluates recent research and policy discussions about transfer students and addresses the critical issues facing students moving through the educational pipeline. Chapters include: (1) "Transfer Student Adjustment" (Frankie Santos Laanan); (2) "Institutional Responses to Barriers to the Transfer Process" (Eboni M. Zamani); (3) "Honors Programs: A Case Study of Transfer Preparation" (Herald R. Kane); (4) "Toward a More Perfect Union: Reflecting on Trends and Issues for Enhancing the Academic Performance of Minority Transfer Students" (Wynetta Y. Lee); (5) "Student Transfer Between Oregon Community Colleges and Oregon University System Institutions" (James C. Arnold); (6) "Studying Transfer Students: Designs and Methodological Challenges" (Carol A. Kozeracki); (7) "Transfer Readiness: A Case Study of Former Santa Monica College Students" (Brenda Johnson-Benson, Peter B. Geltner, and Steven K. Steinberg); (8) "Making the Transition to the Senior Institution" (Latrice E. Eggleston and Frankie Santos Laanan); and (9) "Leadership Perspectives on Preparing Transfer Students" (Phoebe K. Helm and Arthur M. Cohen). (EMH).
Download or read book A Comparative Study of Factors Leading to the Retention of African American Students and Non minority Students Enrolled in Business Programs at a Northwest Florida Community College written by Joyce Maria Hopson and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of the study was to identify factors that promote or inhibit the successful retention of students in community college business programs. A random sample of 250 students was selected from 685 students who enrolled for the first time in business programs at a Northwest Florida community college during the 1990 fall semester. The students were sent questionnaires during the 1995 fall semester (five years after their initial enrollment). Responses were received from 102 African American (65 females/37 males) and 60 non-minority (28 females/32 males) students. Significantly more African American male business students had completed degree and/or certificate programs than non-minority male business students. African American business students and non-minority business students tended to agree in their perceptions of the importance of goals and academic, social, and economic factors influencing them to remain in school (18 of the 24 items were not significantly different). However, the two groups differed significantly in their perceptions of the importance of five of the academic factors (academic advising, faculty-student interaction, transfer advice/articulation agreement(s), tutorial programs with peer counselors, and mentor/mentee programs) and one of the social factors (treated as a human being, not a number) influencing them to remain in school. These six factors were rated more important by African American students.
Download or read book Standards of Practice for California Community College Counseling Faculty and Programs written by Academic Senate for California Community Colleges and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Counseling programs in the California community colleges play a key role in helping students succeed. Over the years, the functions counseling departments perform have increased significantly, further exacerbating the ever-present pressure to serve more students in cost-effective ways. As a result of the expansion of services absent the resources to ensure the provision of such services, the question has arisen as to what roles counseling faculty should play in the delivery of services to students. To clarify these roles, the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges (Academic Senate) developed a policy paper, "The Role of Counseling Faculty in the California Community Colleges," which was adopted at its Spring 1995 Plenary Session. This paper provides useful background on counseling in the California community colleges. The reader is also referred to a paper adopted by the Academic Senate in 2003, Consultation Council Task Force on Counseling, which provides further discussion of the role of counseling faculty, the importance of counseling faculty in facilitating student success, and information on perceptions of the state of counseling in our system. While "The Role of Counseling Faculty in the California Community Colleges" described the range of activities of counseling faculty, it did not set out standards for how those roles were to be performed. Specific standards for some elements of counseling services have appeared in regulation, accreditation guidelines, and ethics statements; but nowhere had these standards been collected, reviewed, and presented systematically to the community college counseling field until the first version of this paper, "Standards of Practice for California Community College Counseling," was developed and adopted by the Academic Senate in 1997. The original paper and this revision outline effective practices, by addressing the issue of standards of practice and service for California community college counseling faculty and programs. This revision serves as an update, reflecting changes that have transpired in the student services area and incorporating philosophical changes in approaches to counseling. The document has also been renamed to recognize that counseling faculty and counseling programs are separate entities; there are services that a counseling program may provide but that may not be specifically a function of counseling faculty. One appendix is included: American Counseling Association Code of Ethics. [These Standards were adopted Spring 1997; revised and adopted Fall 2008.
Download or read book Student Perceptions of the Impact of Participation in Community College Mental Health Counseling on Retention Graduation and Transfer written by Matt Jordan Quin and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation examined community college transfer students' perceptions of how mental health concerns interfere with academics, the ability to stay in school, graduate, and transfer to a 4-year university. The study also examined if community college transfer students perceive that mental health counseling improves their ability to stay in college, graduate from community college, and overcome barriers that interfere with the ability to transfer to a 4-year university. The study employed descriptive statistics and one-way between subjects ANOVAs to examine the effects of demographic characteristics and presenting mental health concerns on the ability to remain in community college, graduate from community college, and transfer to a 4-year university. Eta squared post hoc test revealed medium to large effect sizes. The participants were 65 transfer students consisting largely of white, female community college graduates between the ages of eighteen and twenty-four from a mid-sized, southeastern United States university. Significant findings for differences in perceptions were found based on students' presenting concerns for counseling and demographics.
Download or read book The Effects of Structured Transfer Programs in Community Colleges written by Rachel Baker and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many community college students begin with the intention of transferring to a four-year school but relatively few actually do. One hypothesis for the low rates of successful two-to-four year transfers is that academic program choices in community colleges are too numerous and too complex. In this paper, the author will address a longer term outcome of a state articulation policy in California (number of associates degrees granted) as well as the more proximate outcome (changes in course taking patterns) implicit in these more distal goals. She will also examine whether the reform is having heterogeneous effects on different demographic groups and different degree programs. Using data from California Community Colleges, the author will answer the following research questions: (1) Do structured academic transfer programs for community college students affect student outcomes and course-taking behavior?; and (2) Does a more structured transfer program affect the demographics (race, age, SES, prior education) of degree programs in community colleges and does it have larger effects on particular groups of students? The author worked closely with a community college district in Northern California. She used exclusively administrative data for this project. This study provides preliminary evidence that the introduction of Associates degrees for transfer had an effect on the behavior of students. Tables are appended.
Download or read book Beyond College For All written by James E. Rosenbaum and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 2001-11-29 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a society where everyone is supposed to go to college, the problems facing high school graduates who do not continue their education are often forgotten. Many cannot find jobs, and those who do are often stuck in low-wage, dead-end positions. Meanwhile employers complain that high school graduates lack the necessary skills for today's workplace. Beyond College for All focuses on this crisis in the American labor market. Around the world, author James E. Rosenbaum finds, employers view high school graduates as valuable workers. Why not here? Rosenbaum reports on new studies of the interaction between employers and high schools in the United States. He concludes that each fails to communicate its needs to the other, leading to a predictable array of problems for young people in the years after graduation. High schools caught up in the college-for-all myth, provide little job advice or preparation, leading students to make unrealistic plans and hampering both students who do not go to college and those who start college but do not finish. Employers say they care about academic skills, but then do not consider grades when deciding whom to hire. Faced with few incentives to achieve, many students lapse into precisely the kinds of habits employers deplore, doing as little as possible in high school and developing poor attitudes. Rosenbaum contrasts the situation in the United States with that of two other industrialized nations-Japan and Germany-which have formal systems for aiding young people who are looking for employment. Virtually all Japanese high school graduates obtain work, and in Germany, eighteen-year-olds routinely hold responsible jobs. While the American system lacks such formal linkages, Rosenbaum uncovers an encouraging hidden system that helps many high school graduates find work. He shows that some American teachers, particularly vocational teachers, create informal networks with employers to guide students into the labor market. Enterprising employers have figures out how to use these networks to meet their labor needs, while students themselves can take steps to increase their ability to land desirable jobs. Beyond College for All suggests new policies based on such practices. Rosenbaum presents a compelling case that the problems faced by American high school graduates and employers can be solved if young people, employers, and high schools build upon existing informal networks to create formal paths for students to enter the world of work. A Volume in the American Sociological Association's Rose Series in Sociology
