Issue No. 44 • September 2026 Fostering Resilience in College Students: Strategies for Support and Success Introduction In Rudyard Kipling’s famous 1895 poem “If,” he offers advice for having resilience in the face of failure through a series of “if” statements. In the poem, Kipling writes, “If you can [...]
Issue No. 43 • June 2026 Supporting Student Success in Technical Education: A Case Study from a Rural Community College Competing Pressures in Rural Technical Education Across the country, community colleges are expected to prepare students quickly for employment while also helping them earn credentials that support long-term economic mobility [...]
Issue No. 42 • May 2026 A Day in the Life of a Latina in STEM: The Potential Benefits of Holistic Financial Assistance, Mentoring, and Nontraditional REUs Often, the low retention of college students pursuing Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) (Kokkelenberg & Sinha, 2010; National Center for Education Statistics, 2024; National [...]
Issue No. 40 • February 2026 Reverse Mirroring: Expanding Access and Retention through Course Alignment Between Career and Technical Education and Continuing Education Bridging Access and Opportunity in Rural Workforce Education Community colleges are intentionally designed to provide affordable, accessible, and local education opportunities to a diverse student population. Specifically, [...]
Issue No. 39 • December 2025 Developing General AI Self-Efficacy in an Online Course Introduction The dust has yet to settle in the ongoing debate about cellphone use in schools, and now General Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is here to challenge educational practitioners. Can we use it? Should we use it? [...]
Issue No. 38 • November 2025 Building a Program Review Structure and Capacity Within a Community College Division of Student Affairs Introduction Launching a program review structure within a community college's Student Affairs division can be overwhelming, especially for departments with limited staff, new assessment infrastructure, and heavy workloads. At [...]
Issue No. 37 • October 2025 Dual Language Bilingual Education: A Path to Student Success In the early 2000s, I transitioned from a career in higher education to pursue a path in bilingual education by accepting a position at an elementary school in Chelsea, Massachusetts, as part of the "Two-way [...]
Issue No. 35 • March 2025 Interactive Insights: Active and Experiential Learning in Critical Thinking Faculty Development Workshops Introduction Critical thinking is a vital component of postsecondary education. Active learning and experiential learning strategies in the classroom are effective ways to help students develop critical thinking skills. This paper focuses [...]
Volume XLVII, No. 3 | February 20, 2025 Strengthening Students' Argumentation Skills to Enhance Source Credibility Assessment: A Study on Critical Thinking in Online Research The way students approach research has changed dramatically with the rise of the internet. While more information is readily available within seconds, I found my students often [...]
Volume XLI, No. 29 | August 8, 2019 This Essay About Analogies Is a Lot Like an Old Man at a Country Store: It’s Filled With Useful Information Occasionally, the content we teach fails to reach the majority of our students. In these instances, it’s as if the more we speak, the [...]
