Semester+Projects

=Semester Projects=


 * ~ Name ||~ Topic ||~ Hypotheses ||~ Conceptual Framework ||~ Anchor-Store Readings ||~ Studies ||~ Database to be used? ||
 * < Abbie Alsene ||< The mental health of student leaders at community colleges ||< Factors that stress student leaders? Or, perhaps more broadly, the factors that may cause community college students to need mental health services? ||< Astin's theory of student involvement

Goffman's theory of self-presentation ||< Mental health care in the college community, by Kay and Schwartz

Mental health of college students, by Morrow ||<  Mental healt services at community colleges ||   || Investment in human capital, by Schultz
 * Michael Cermak || Do credentialed students make better workers? || Does receipt of a certificate or associate's degree lead to an earnings premium in the labor market? || Human capital theory || Higher learning, greater good, by McMahon

The economic gospel: The economic poser of schooling, by Grubb and Lazerson

The new vocationalism in communituy colleges, by Bragg || Economic returns to credentials ||  ||
 * Mark Coykendall || Do faculty development programs increase faculty participation, faculty retention, teaching skills, etc. || Is participation will correlated with greater retention, job satisfaction, other outcomes? || Transformational learning theory || Learning as transformation, by Mezirow

--See books listed below for Braandon Hensley || Faculty development in community colleges

faculty job satisfaction ||  ||
 * Gabe Estill || The unique character of rural community colleges || Are rural community colleges different (along specified traits) than urban or suburban colleges? || Rural sociology || Critical rural theory, by Thomas

Rural community colleges: Teaching learning and leading in the heartland, by Eddy & Murray || Rural community colleges ||   ||
 * Maegan Gorham || Service learning and civic engagement activities in cc's || Do service learning and civic engagement activities enhance student engagement and involvement? || Student involvement theory

Student quality of effort

Dewey's Theory of Progressive Education || Measuring the quality of student experiences, by Pace

Recollections and reflections, by Pace

Student involvement, by Astin || Service learning in community colleges || Community college survey of student engagement || Disruptive students in community colleges ||  ||
 * Jennie Hemingway || Threat assessment teams at community colleges || [Are some community colleges more likely to form these teams than others? Do models of coordinating threat assessment at four-year colleges meet the needs of community colleges, as peceived by community college leades?] || Organizational models for coordinating instituional responses to threats || Threat assessment teams: A model for coordinating the institutional response and reducing legal liability when college students threaten suicide, by Penven and Janosik || Threat assessment in higher education
 * Brandon Hensley || Faculty reward structures at community colleges || [Relationship between job satisfaction on the one hand and pay, working conditions, etc., on the other] || Herzberg's two-factor theory || Community college faculty: At work in the new economy, by Levin et al.

Community college faculty: Overlooked and undervalued, by Townsend and Twombly

A profile of the community college professoriate, by Outcalt. || Faculty profession at community colleges

Faculty job satisfaction at community colleges ||  ||
 * Edith List || International students at community colleges || What factors predict female international students' persistence at community colleges in the United States? || Terenzini and Reason (2005) college impact framework

Gender & Cultural Capital Theory - Dumais (2002) based on Bourdieu (1997) || Higher education and international student mobility, by Guruz

Understanding the international student experience, by Montgomery

Internationalizing the community college, by Romano || International students at community colleges ||   ||
 * Julie O'Brien || Remediation at the community college level || How does remediation affect the graduation rates of community college students who transfer to a four-year institution? || Bean and Eaton's Psychological Model of College Student Retention ||  ||   || BPS ||
 * Melissa Pitcock || The personal fiscal investment of students in their own education || Do students who pay at lease some of their educational expenses out of pocket achieve "better" outcomes than students whose parents pay for everything. || Econommic or sociological theories that explain the link between psychological investment and fiscal investment. Perhaps theories used in studies by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York or by Laura Hamilton

Also, perhaps theories of student retention. ||  ||   ||   || Jacobs & Dougherty (2006) Carnevale et al. (2010): Help wanted Counting the hidden assets (2009) Van Noy et al. (2009) || Jepsen, C., Troske, K., & Coomes, P. (2009). The Labor-market returns to community college degrees, diplomas, and certificates. ||  || In the basement of the Ivory Tower, by Prof. X
 * Patrice Prud'homme || How do noncredit STEM programs measure out in labor market outcomes? || What is the correlation of noncredit STEM programs to the credit, regression analysis with models || Human capital theory (Beck, 1962, 1975) || Hagedorn & Purnamasari (2012)GAO (2004, 2012)
 * Christian Roldan Santos || Institutional barriers to successful math remediation completion and retention of students of color in community colleges || [Factors that contribute to minority student success in developmental math courses] || Critical race theory || Back to school, by Mike Rose

Are community colleges underprepared for underprepared students, by Schuetz and Barr

The politics of remediation : institutional and student needs in higher education<span class="gmw_">, by Soliday ||  ||  Remedial math at community colleges

Minority students and remedial education ||
 * Amelia Wood || <span class="gmw_">Job satisfacction of community college faculty members || Factors that contribute to job satisfaction || Hertzberg's two factor theory? || <span class="gmw_">--See books listed above for Braandon Hensley || See also listings of faculty studies, above. ||  ||