Community College Review articles from October 2008

Community College Review archives from October 2008

Editor's note.
October 1, 2008... This issue of the Community College Review includes three research reports and one scholarly essay. First, David S. Fike and Renea Fike draw on data from an urban community college to identity predictors of retention for first-time-in-college...

Predictors of first-year student retention in the community college.(Report)
October 1, 2008... This study analyzed predictors of fall-to-spring and fall-to-fall retention for 9,200 first-time-in-college students who enrolled in a community college over a four-year period. Findings highlight the impact of developmental education programs...

Predicting performance in a community college content-area course from academic skill level.(Report)
October 1, 2008... Binary logistic regression analyses were performed on institutional data from a large urban community college in order to identify predictors of performance in a content course (psychology) that had high literacy demands. It was found that...

Chief academic officers' demographics and educational backgrounds.(Report)
October 1, 2008... The impending retirements of many community college leaders creates a need to better understand who the chief academic officers (CAOs) are and the paths they followed to become CAOs. Nonetheless, researchers have paid relatively little...

Making the case for a positive approach to improving organizational performance in higher education institutions: the community college abundance model.
October 1, 2008... Increasingly hostile and turbulent environments have rendered top-down, problem-focused management structures inadequate for competing in the ever-changing postsecondary knowledge industry. The community college abundance model (CCAM), a...

Wallin, D. L. (Ed.). (2005). Adjunct Faculty in Community Colleges: An Academic Administrator's Guide to Recruiting, Supporting, and Retaining Great Teachers.
October 1, 2008... Wallin, D. L. (Ed.). (2005). Adjunct Faculty in Community Colleges: An Academic Administrator's Guide to Recruiting, Supporting, and Retaining Great Teachers. Bolton, MA: Anker. Adjunct or part-time faculty members are already a significant...