A National Analysis of Noncredit Community College Education: Enrollment, Funding, Accountability, and Contextual Issues

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 288-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark M. D’Amico ◽  
Grant B. Morgan ◽  
Stephen G. Katsinas ◽  
J. Lucas Adair ◽  
Michael T. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Community College ◽  
College Education ◽  
Community College Education ◽  
Education Enrollment ◽  
National Analysis

Noncredit Education Enrollment and Outcomes: Exploring the "Black Box" of Noncredit Community College Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-38
Author(s):  
Mark M. D'Amico ◽  
Grant B. Morgan ◽  
Zoë Mercedes Thornton ◽  
Vladimir Bassis
Keyword(s):  
Community College ◽  
College Education ◽  
Black Box ◽  
Occupational Training ◽  
Community College Education ◽  
Carnegie Classifications ◽  
Career Clusters ◽  
Education Enrollment ◽  
Contact Hours ◽  
Noncredit Education

Representing approximately two in five community college students, noncredit education is an important but understudied segment of the higher education population. In an effort to help open the "black box" of noncredit education in community colleges, the present study uses an established noncredit course typology (occupational training, sponsored occupational training, personal interest, and precollege remediation) to better understand the predictors of noncredit enrollment and outcomes in Iowa. Using a sample of more than 181,000 records, we employed a series of regression analyses to discuss variables associated with enrollment in the noncredit course types, the number of completions, and the number of contact hours. Nuanced findings and implications were associated with race/ethnicity, gender, institutional mission as captured through Carnegie Classifications, and career fields based on the 16 career clusters.

scholarly journals The Economic Returns of a Community College Education

1997 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 73-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge R. Sanchez ◽  
Frankie Santos Laanan
Keyword(s):  
Community College ◽  
College Education ◽  
Economic Returns ◽  
Community College Education

Community College Education for Nursing

1959 ◽  
Vol 59 (9) ◽  
pp. 1307
Author(s):  
Kathryn W. Cafferty ◽  
Mildred L. Montag ◽  
Lassar G. Gotkin
Keyword(s):  
Community College ◽  
College Education ◽  
Community College Education

scholarly journals Is Free Education Really Free?

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 57-65
Author(s):  
Andrew Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Community College ◽  
College Education ◽  
President Obama ◽  
Community College Education ◽  
College System ◽  
Part Time ◽  
The Cost

The cost of college is remarkable. Shelling out thousands of dollars for some knowledge and a receipt claiming you paid is, in a few words, the modern American college system. Perhaps unsurprisingly, policies have been proposed to reduce the cost of college, even making it free in some instances. On Jan. 9, 2015 President Obama unveiled a plan to make “two years of community college free for responsible students across America.” Given the Republican control of Congress, the idea stands little chance of being passed, but it is still interesting to consider. Under the President’s plan, all Americans, regardless of income, would have access to two years of free community college education provided the student maintains a 2.5 GPA and part-time status. Though the benefits would be numerous, so would the costs. 

“Not in Your Backyard!”: A Community Struggle for the Rights of Immigrant Adult Education in San Francisco’s Chinatown

2009 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-32
Author(s):  
L. Ling-chi Wang
Keyword(s):  
Community College ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Asian American ◽  
College Education ◽  
Community College Education ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
Educational Rights ◽  
Community Activists ◽  
Admission Policies ◽  
Mainstream Society

This article is a case study of a protracted struggle to establish a branch campus of the San Francisco Community College in Chinatown for thousands of immigrants and working-class adults, focusing mostly on the period since 1997 when the community was slowly politicized and mobilized to fight for their educational rights. Although educational researchers continue to pay close attention to Asian American fights against discriminatory admission policies among the nation’s top colleges and universities, an urgent need to pay more scholarly and political attention to the neediest, poorest, and powerless among Asian Americans clearly exists. To this segment of the Asian American population, access to community college education is a matter of acquiring tools of survival in America. The study illustrates the equal significance of race and class in understanding the development of Asian American communities, how each can be used to obfuscate or disguise the other, and how both can be easily obscured by other issues, especially “progressive” issues or organizations. Asian American community activists and scholars need to pay more attention to class and class conflict with the communities and between the communities and the mainstream society.

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