scholarly journals Asking the Right Questions in Community College Pathways Research

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Parikh ◽  
Lori Silverman
Keyword(s):  
Community College ◽  
College Pathways ◽  
The Right

scholarly journals Community College Pathways

2014 ◽  
Vol 89 (12) ◽  
pp. 1649-1656 ◽  
Author(s):  
Efrain Talamantes ◽  
Carol M. Mangione ◽  
Karla Gonzalez ◽  
Alejandro Jimenez ◽  
Fabio Gonzalez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Community College ◽  
College Pathways

scholarly journals Alternatif Pengembangan Pendidikan Berdasarkan “Nilai” Kebutuhan Khusus

Humaniora ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 86
Author(s):  
Silverius CJM Lake
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Community College ◽  
Community Colleges ◽  
Business Management ◽  
Culinary Arts ◽  
Two Year College ◽  
The Right

The Community College is a kind of higher education. It focuses on diploma degree (the Two Year College). The objectives of Community College are to educate and to train students for getting working skills for jobs. The Community College has competencies that are suitable with the working area and the local needs. To run the Community College goodly and truly, values is needed. Those values influence the mission of Community College. The question was why Indonesian Higher Education accepts the Community College as a model of higher education. The problem was related to some models of higher education that do not fulfill the demands of companies yet. Therefore the Community College becomes a choice to answer the demands of industries and etrepreneurship. The right references to learn about Community College are American Community Colleges such as Highline Community College (Seattle, WA) and Kapi’olani Community Collere (Honolulu, HI). Each of those Community Colleges has the best program for example Highline Community College in Business Management, then Kapi’olani Community College in Culinary Arts. This article used descriptive and argumentative method to show the importance of Commuity College in Indonesia. 

Community Colleges and Workforce Preparation in the 21st Century

2021 ◽  
pp. 115-131
Author(s):  
Carlos Lopez
Keyword(s):  
Community College ◽  
Community Colleges ◽  
Workforce Development ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Modern Trend ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Workforce Preparation ◽  
The Right

This chapter addresses the modern trend in community colleges and their evolving mission to serve as one of the significant contributors to workforce development in our nation. There are many challenges community colleges face today. One of those challenges is to be one of the main suppliers of skilled professionals for the workforce. Therefore, it is crucial to understand the role of community colleges, their mission, and how they will develop programs to train people with the necessary skills to meet the demands of the workforce. For community colleges to achieve that goal, they have to go from adding and/or restructuring curricula to making sure they have the right personnel to teach special and high tech courses that will prepare students with the right skill set and knowledge to join the workforce after getting their degree, diploma, or certification at the community college.

Unrealized Potential: Community College Pathways to STEM Baccalaureate Degrees

2016 ◽  
Vol 88 (3) ◽  
pp. 430-478 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Riley Bahr ◽  
Grant Jackson ◽  
Jon McNaughtan ◽  
Meghan Oster ◽  
Jillian Gross
Keyword(s):  
Community College ◽  
Baccalaureate Degrees ◽  
College Pathways

scholarly journals Going for the Gold

10.28945/4558 ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 001-020
Author(s):  
Eric Johnson ◽  
Lanel Menezes ◽  
Tim Routier ◽  
Mikaela Walter ◽  
Keith White
Keyword(s):  
Community College ◽  
Performance Metrics ◽  
Performance Funding ◽  
Performance Model ◽  
Incentive Program ◽  
Funding Model ◽  
College System ◽  
Gold Silver ◽  
The Right ◽  
Faculty And Administrators

Dr. Ken Atwater, President of Hillsborough Community College (HCC), saw the email flash across his monitor, “2018-19 Performance Funding: Hillsborough Community College” sent from the Chancellor of the Florida College System (FCS). The email was 12 months in the making. In 2015, the Florida Legislature created the first performance funding-based incentive program in its General Appropriations Act (Laws of Florida Ch. 2015-232. (n.d.)). Proviso language required the State Board of Education to allocate performance funds pursuant to a performance funding model. The performance model had four performance funding metrics: retention, graduation, wages and job placement (see Exhibit 1). This one message would answer a burning question that had been lingering in the college’s top administrators’ minds: Where would the college land in another year of performance funding? Atwater contemplatively read the email, “A Bronze ranking, again.” This Bronze designation meant the college was not eligible for new state distributed performance funds meaning almost $2 million would not be appropriated to HCC. Atwater asked himself “what needs to be done so HCC is eligible for this funding?” The 2015 Florida Legislature inserted language into its General Appropriations Act creating the FCS’ performance funding-based incentive program. The direction of millions of dollars distributed throughout Florida colleges had been determined including a final ranking of Gold, Silver, Bronze or Purple for each college, with Gold being the highest ranking. This ranking determined whether HCC received millions in new dollars; money that in an environment of budget cuts to the entire FCS over the last two years would be extremely important to the students, faculty, and administrators across Hillsborough County. Atwater knew the college needed to improve its score, thus allowing HCC to move into a Silver or Gold category. The improvement in the score to gain the additional dollars boiled down to concentrated efforts in providing the best education for students while equipping faculty with the right resources to improve effectiveness. Atwater thought, "Easier said than done. I am faced with the proverbial chicken before the egg or egg before the chicken. I may need funding to make the necessary changes to improve the scores. However, without the necessary changes to show improvement in scores, we will not receive the funding." Regardless of the dilemma, the question had to be asked, "What strategies should be implemented to increase scores in the four performance metrics that the college would be judged on? Should the college expand tracking of the cohort of students that is examined? Should new student success initiatives be rolled out to help students?" Atwater wanted answers. He had approximately two million reasons why.

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