This is especially apparent at community colleges that enroll disproportionally low-income students, who deal with a variety of obstacles including a lack of family support, academic issues, and financial struggles. Purpose/Objective/Research Question/Focus of Study: The aim o...
Community colleges face struggles in helping students meet their academic, career, and personal goals. Student affairs practitioners can be innovators by creating initiatives to engage students. Practitioners can act as a bridge between student and academic affairs. This article explores how a group of...
Between the struggles with changing hormones, social pressures, and academics all rolled into four years, it can be pretty overwhelming. Some students handle the pressure of high school better than others, and some are better at school for whatever reason. Poor grades are sometimes viewed as an...
Central Wyoming Community College, located in Riverton, Wyoming, is one of the many schools that have recently developed much-needed dormitory options for students. As Central Wyoming is the only college within its surrounding 100-mile radius, this school was facing a unique set of struggles. As...
This research increased awareness of the struggles that these women faced to attend college. The women described the importance of maintaining focus on their goals and found ways to succeed academically. Community colleges must embrace the multicultural backgrounds of students who are first-generation, ...
Building bridges: Community college practitioners as retention leaders Community colleges face struggles in helping students meet their academic, career, and personal goals. Student affairs practitioners can be innovators by c... MJ Stebleton,LA Schmidt - Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice...
“When we were looking at test scores, we’re seeing that the transition from elementary over to middle school, going from 5th grade to 6th grade, is a pretty dynamic shift for the students. And we’re seeing a drastic decrease in the outcomes when it comes to testing and things like ...
Through Susie’s eyes, readers observe the family’s most intimate moments, their struggles with one another and the world around them, their failures and triumphs, their connections and breakdowns. The idea of family, though, is complicated on several levels. Susie’s “family” in heaven ...
Community colleges are an especially attractive option this year as many families deal with financial struggles caused by high inflation. Students who initially planned on attending a private four-year college might want to consider spending two years at a community college and transferring those cre...
In New York City public schools, 176 different languages are spoken among the more than 1 million students. For 160,000 children, English is not their first language。 New York’s Department of Education makes learning better for these students by providing dual-language(双语) programmes。 Stude...