When the Walls Come Tumbling Down: A Case Study of Community Colleges Within a Canadian High Mobility Postsecondary System

2018 ◽  
pp. 757-774 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralf St. Clair ◽  
Joanne Heslop ◽  
Nicole Greengoe
Keyword(s):  
Community Colleges ◽  
High Mobility

Understanding For-Profit College and Community College Choice through Rational Choice

2014 ◽  
Vol 116 (8) ◽  
pp. 1-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Constance Iloh ◽  
William G. Tierney
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Community College ◽  
Community Colleges ◽  
Community College Students ◽  
College Choice ◽  
Rational Choice ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Student College ◽  
Student College Choice

Background/Context Scarce research has been conducted examining why students choose to attend higher priced for-profit institutions over community colleges. The authors suggest that increased national concern over proprietary higher education warrants an in-depth comparative case study of the choice factors utilized by for-profit and community college students. Research Question The research questions guiding this analysis are: (a) Why and how do students choose to attend for-profit colleges and community colleges? (b) What factors were important in their decision? (c) What implications do these results have for rational choice and college choice theory? Setting Data were collected at one community college and one for-profit college in California that had similar vocational programs. Subjects A total of 137 for-profit and community college students (75 for profit, 62 community college) enrolled in a vocational nursing or surgical technician associate's degree program agreed to participate. Research Design The authors examine student college choice factors through a case study. The findings were developed from interviews, surveys, and focus groups. Findings The authors found that for-profit and community college students held varying conceptions of costs and benefits as they pertained to college choice factors. Three particular dimensions were highlighted in student responses—short-term and long-term gains, risks, and uncertainty. Conclusions This study illuminates the nuanced factors and goals that informed student college choice decisions. Understanding these distinct college choice considerations could help researchers, practitioners, and institutional leaders develop measures for institutional effectiveness and student success.

scholarly journals In Education and in Work: The Globalized Community College

2002 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-77
Author(s):  
John S. Levin
Keyword(s):  
Community College ◽  
Community Colleges ◽  
Organizational Context ◽  
Multiple Case Study ◽  
The United States ◽  
Work Behaviors ◽  
Educational Programming ◽  
Field Methods ◽  
Multiple Case

This is a multiple case study of seven colleges using field methods research to examine institutional life and organizational context. This study determines that community colleges in both Canada and the United States exhibited educational and work behaviors in the 1990s consistent with the globalization process. Education was oriented to the marketplace, and the needs of business and industry received high priority in educational programming. Work within these institutions was valued for and carried out with economic ends: to realize productivity and efficiency.

scholarly journals Navigating Vertical Transfer Online: Access to and Usefulness of Transfer Information on Community College Websites

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-30
Author(s):  
Lauren Schudde ◽  
Dwuana Bradley ◽  
Caitlin Absher
Keyword(s):  
Community Colleges ◽  
Transfer Students ◽  
Imperfect Information ◽  
Online Information ◽  
Vertical Transfer ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Ease Of Access ◽  
College Websites

Objective: To transfer, students often must navigate complex and imperfect information about credit transfer, bureaucratic hurdles, and conflicting degree requirements. This study examined how administrators and transfer personnel think about institutional online transfer resources and examined community colleges’ online transfer information. Methods: For a sample of 20 Texas community colleges, we spoke to key transfer personnel about the information provided to students and reviewed college websites, assessing the ease of access and usefulness of online transfer information. We used a qualitative case study approach to triangulate findings from our data sources. Results: Approximately two thirds of colleges in the sample fell below the highest standard on our rubric for either ease of access or usefulness, indicating room for improvement at most institutions. Many personnel recognized the strengths and limitations of their college’s online information, though several were ambivalent about the need for improving online information, arguing that online information is not as promising an intervention as face-to-face advising. Conclusion/Contributions: Our research illustrates the need for colleges to develop and update their online information intentionally, determining which information students need to transfer (including transfer guides for partner programs/colleges) and how students might search for that information, and ensuring that necessary transfer information is available and up to date. The framework provided by our website review approach, coupled with a proposed rubric to assess ease of access and usefulness of transfer information, may guide institutions in their evaluation of their online transfer information.

scholarly journals OPTIMIZATION OF WIRELESS NETWORK PERFORMANCE USING THE HIERARCHICAL TOKEN BUCKET (CASE STUDY: MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY OF PALEMBANG)

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-59
Author(s):  
Yukos Pratama ◽  
Heri Suroyo
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Service ◽  
Packet Loss ◽  
Network Performance ◽  
High Mobility ◽  
Bandwidth Management ◽  
Token Bucket ◽  
Very High ◽  
Tree Method

Computer networks have penetrated into various fields including education for the learning process which is used as a medium for delivering scientific concepts to be more attractive and easily accepted. The Muhammadiyah University of Palembang currently has very high mobility, both used for browsing information, downloading data and using other facilities. For the need for bandwidth management to manage each passing data so that the distribution of bandwidth becomes evenly distributed by using the queue tree method that is applied to the proxy. To evaluate internet bandwidth analyze QoS (Quality of Service) using typhoid standardization in terms of measurement of throughput, delay, and packet loss. The results of this study show that the quality of the network with the hierarchical token bucket method is more optimal, this is because the bandwidth will be divided according to the rules applied to bandwidth management and does not cause clients to fight over bandwidth

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