This book brings together a collection of chapters with different research designs that explore the research, practice, and policies of community colleges.
The chapters in this book are the result of the graduate students and their faculty mentors scholarly work, and a rigorous special issues peer review process. Furthermore, this book offers recommendations on how to mentor graduate students, in the absence of research and mentorship on how to publish for graduate students and practitioner-scholars, as well as recognizing that graduate programs and professional associations are important on the socialization of practitioner-scholars.
Each book chapter addresses the implications for practice and future research, policy for community colleges, and recommendation for change indicated by the research results. Five broad research themes, higher education policy, leadership practices and roles, network community, student success, and technology, emerged from the empirical articles and critical reviews. A final chapter shares advice and lessons learned from the 30 authors and mentors.
With the exception of Chapter 14, the chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Community College Journal of Research and Practice.
This book brings together a collection of different research designs that explore the research, practice, and policies of community colleges.
1. Publishing Graduate Students Research About Community Colleges
2.
Transformational Leadership and Proliferation of Community College Research
Framework: A Systematic Review of the Literature
3. Do Community College
Students Demonstrate Different Behaviours from Four-Year University Students
on Virtual Proctored Exams?
4. Faculty of Color Un mask Color-Blind Ideology
in the Community College Faculty Search Process
5. Case Studies of Women of
Color Leading Community Colleges in Texas: Navigating the Leadership Pipeline
through Mentoring and Culture
6. "Where are My People At?": A Community
Cultural Wealth Analysis of How Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Community College
Students of Color Access Community and Support
7. Evolving Narratives about
College: Immigrant Community College Students Perceptions of all Four-Year
Degree in the Great Plains
8. Crossing the Shapeless River on a Government
Craft: How Military-Affiliated Students Navigate Community College Transfer
9. Historically Black Community Colleges: A Descriptive Profile and Call for
Context-Based Future Research
10. Two-Year Institution and Community College
Web Accessibility: Updating the Literature after the 2018 Section 508
Amendment
11. A Document Analysis of Student Conduct in Floridas Community
Colleges
12. Experiential Learning as a Strategy for Student Completion and
Course Success in the Community College
13. Texas Community Colleges Respond
to the Threatened End of DACA: A Document Analysis
14. Reflection on How to
Publish: Advice and Lessons Learned from Graduate Student Authors
Dr. Deborah L. Floyd is a Professor of Higher Education Leadership at Florida Atlantic University. She is Editor-in-Chief of the Community College Journal of Research and Practice. Her research focuses on leadership, community colleges, student affairs, and baccalaureate models.
Dr. Cristobal Salinas Jr. is an assistant professor in the Educational Leadership and Research Methodology Department at Florida Atlantic University. His research promotes access and equality in higher education for historically marginalized communities.
Dr. Ethan C. Swingle is a recent doctoral graduate of the Higher Education Program at Florida Atlantic University. His research interests include intercollegiate athletics, with a focus on student athlete transfer experiences.
Dr. Marķa-José Zeledón-Pérez is an Assistant Professor in the Communication Studies Department and co-director of the World Cultures Program at San Diego City College.
Dr. Sim Barhoum is an Associate Professor of English at San Diego Mesa College. His research examines active learning, relational equity practices, students of color, and educational models.
Dr. Gianna Ramdin is the Associate Editor of the Community College Journal of Research and Practice. Her primary research area is the study of campus greening and sustainable initiatives implemented on university and college campuses.