Download or read book African American Students in a California Community College written by Tenisha Celita James and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The California Community College Experience for Real written by Khalid Akil White and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This case study provides an in depth view of the experiences of African American male students within the California Community College (CCC) system at one Northern California site. Each young man interviewed is or was an active participant in an on campus support program specifically for African American males. The participants' experiences as African American male students enrolled in a California community college, lead to a greater understanding of African American males in the California Community College system, as a demographic. Findings suggest the importance of appreciating the stories and lived experiences of the subjects prior to joining the on campus group for later success at the Community College level. Findings suggest that this all-male, student support group created a means of increasing student persistence, retention and transfer rates. Moreover, findings show how African American male students' academic engagement, self-perception and interpersonal relations are positively impacted by their participation in the group. Thus, the practices of this all-male support group should be replicated across the California Community Colleges. The all-male support group is demonstrative of an effective means that the California Community Colleges could employ to increase the persistence, retention, completion and transfer rates of their male students, in general and for African American students specifically. Further, the findings suggest the utility of the all-male support group on campus as positively affecting the educational and personal circumstance outcomes of African American male students. Future research could be employed to better uncover the positive components that undergird the effectiveness of the all-male support group on campus for African American male students. In summary, the participants appear to have greater perceived engagement with the Community College experience through the all male support group.
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 From Ujima to Emergence written by Matthew Justin Powell and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries in North America African Americans have suffered from a lingering educational apartheid--characterized by segregation and a lack of access. Despite the open access mission of the California Community colleges and the opportunities that the community college system provides, the history of African Americans in the system is consistent with educational stratification. This historical case study takes seriously the proposition that community colleges play a role in maintaining relative competitive advantage for some and asks if history has imbued the colleges with this implicit proclivity, and if African American history is one of exclusion and stratification, then what makes community college innovators think that their intervention will buck the trend of intractability? This historical case study examined the implementation and institutionalization of the Ujima Project at Diablo Valley College (DVC). Ujima is a learning community designed to promote the retention and transfer of African American students. The study found that DVC maintained a commitment to tradition and stratification that worked against the successful institutionalization of Ujima. In an effort to build a theory and practice of successful program implementation at the community colleges, the study offers a framework created from the Umoja Community, a California statewide program that promotes the success of African American students especially.
Download or read book Demystifying Success written by Robert Lee Snowden and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Engaging African American Males in Community Colleges written by Ted N. Ingram and published by IAP. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume dedicated to the engagement of African American males in community colleges furthers the research agenda focused on improving the educational outcomes of African American males. The theme engagement also supports the anti-deficit approach to research on African American males developed by renowned research scholars. The true success of African American males in community colleges rests on how well these institutions engage young men into their institutions. This will require community colleges to examine policies, pedagogical strategies, and institutional practices that alienate African American males and fosters a culture of underachievement. The authors who have contributed to this volume all speak from the same script which proves than when African American males are properly engaged in an education that is culturally relevant, they will succeed. Therefore, this book will benefit ALL who support the education of African American males. It is our intent that this book will contribute to the growing body of knowledge that exists in this area as well as foster more inquiry into the achievement of African American males. The book offers three approaches to understanding the engagement of African American males in community college, which includes empirical research, policy perspectives and programmatic initiatives.
Download or read book African American Community College Students Experiences with Professorial Radical Care written by Dotti Cordell and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dying on the Vine written by Edward C. Bush and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Academic Success for African American Male Community College Students written by Preston Hampton and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 The Charter School to Community College Pipeline written by Stephanie D. Nuñez and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: College access in traditional comprehensive high schools has been extensively researched, yet there is a paucity of research that examines the charter high school college-going culture environment (Farmer-Hinton & McCullough, 2008; McDonough, 2004; Oakes, 2003; Zimmer & Buddin, 2007). With the dramatic increase in charter education on a national level, it is imperative to explore how charter school administration, staff, and teachers view college access, especially with the rise of African American and Latina/os enrollment within this sector (Cohen & Brawer, 2003; Kurlaeander, 2006; National Center for Educational Statistics, 2012). In addition, the scholarship on college access should be expanded to include how students and staff view community colleges as part of their college choice process. The purpose of this qualitative ethnographic case study is to examine how charter school personnel define college access for African American and Latina/o students, specifically regarding community colleges. The study attempts to answer the following research questions through a critical race framework: 1) How is college access defined in a charter school context?; 2) How do charter school personnel perceive community colleges?; and 3) What are the post-secondary aspirations for graduating African American and Latina/o charter school students? How do charter school personnel influence these aspirations? One-on-one interviews were conducted at a charter high school in southern California that has a high college-going rate for its graduating students. Specifically, I interviewed the principal, vice principal, a counselor, a teacher, and 8 senior African American and Latina/o students who were going through the college application process. In addition, I observed a guidance class session for students who were academically prepared to apply to a four-year university. I found that the college-going culture at the charter school was evident and that a "college for certain" motto was clear to all students. Students who participated in the study attributed much of their success to the relationships built with the charter school staff and the personnel had high expectations of their students regarding college after graduation. While attending college was the ultimate goal that the staff had for their students, attending a community college was sometimes seen as a stigma and only appropriate for those students who were academically under prepared. Staff members believed that the students overall were not socially ready to step out of the comfort zone of their community and enter diverse college campus environments. CRT theorists argue that colorblindness lowers the realness of the struggle that students of color go through. I found that African American and Latina/o students at CCHS were undergoing challenges that affected their ability to receive equal college access. On a national scale African American and Latina/o students continue to be pushed out of high school and college at higher rates than their white peers (National Center for Educational Statistics, 2012, Yosso & Solorzano, 2006). This study found that although charter schools boast a strong college-going culture, community colleges are still positioned as a deficit choice amongst students and staff. The relationship between charter high schools and community colleges needs to be further explored at various levels as both sectors serve such large populations of students of color.
Download or read book Gateway to Opportunity written by J. M. Beach and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can the U.S. keep its dominant economic position in the world economy with only 30% of its population holding bachelor’s degrees? If the majority of U.S. citizens lack a higher education, can the U.S. live up to its democratic principles and preserve its political institutions? These questions raise the critical issue of access to higher education, central to which are America’s open-access, low-cost community colleges that enroll around half of all first-time freshmen in the U.S. Can these institutions bridge the gap, and how might they do so? The answer is complicated by multiple missions—gateways to 4-year colleges, providers of occupational education, community services, and workforce development, as well as of basic skills instruction and remediation.To enable today’s administrators and policy makers to understand and contextualize the complexity of the present, this history describes and analyzes the ideological, social, and political motives that led to the creation of community colleges, and that have shaped their subsequent development. In doing so, it fills a large void in our knowledge of these institutions.The “junior college,” later renamed the “community college” in the 1960s and 1970s, was originally designed to limit access to higher education in the name of social efficiency. Subsequently leaders and communities tried to refashion this institution into a tool for increased social mobility, community organization, and regional economic development. Thus, community colleges were born of contradictions, and continue to be an enigma. This history examines the institutionalization process of the community college in the United States, casting light on how this educational institution was formed, for what purposes, and how has it evolved. It uncovers the historically conditioned rules, procedures, rituals, and ideas that ordered and defined the particular educational structure of these colleges; and focuses on the individuals, organizations, ideas, and the larger political economy that contributed to defining the community college’s educational missions, and have enabled or constrained this institution from enacting those missions. He also sets the history in the context of the contemporary debates about access and effectiveness, and traces how these colleges have responded to calls for accountability from the 1970s to the present.Community colleges hold immense promise if they can overcome their historical legacy and be re-institutionalized with unified missions, clear goals of educational success, and adequate financial resources. This book presents the history in all its complexity so that policy makers and practitioners might better understand the constraints of the past in an effort to realize the possibilities of the future.
Download or read book More Than a Notion written by David Mac Mullen and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Applicability of Rend n s Model of Validation with African American Community College Students written by Renita C. Dandridge-Rice and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Pathways to the California Community College Presidency for African American Women written by Stanley Camilla Benson Viltz and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Survey of Schools of Education in California Colleges and Universities written by Rodney J. Reed and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
