Women and minorities in rural commmunity colleges: Programs for change

Gillett‐Karam, Rosemary

doi:10.1002/cc.36819959007

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“…It also reflects the declining economic conditions experienced in many rural areas. While Kansas, and most of the nation, has a strong tradition of optimism in rural life, the rural United States is now described by terms such as low population growth, low per capita income, fewer employment opportunities, less educational achievement, and high poverty (Gillett-Karam, 1995 ). The current study indicates that rural community colleges are expanding their missions to work collaboratively with community-based organizations to address many of the economic challenges facing rural communities and to make these areas more economically competitive.…”

Section: Implications For Practicementioning

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Challenges Facing Rural Community Colleges: Issues and Problems Today and Over the Past 30 Years

Pennington

Williams

Karvonen

2006

Community College Journal of Research and Practice

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For over 30 years, researchers and practitioners have identified challenges unique to small, rural community colleges. The purpose of this study was to examine the distinctive problems facing rural community colleges today and the challenges those institutions must address to fulfill their mission in rural America. There are 5 current challenges commonly identified by 10 rural community college administrators in Kansas: technology use, grant writing, an evolving student population and corresponding changes to the mission, funding inequalities between institutions, and hiring qualified people. Identified challenges were compared with problems described in the literature from the last 30 years.

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Section: Implications For Practicementioning

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Challenges Facing Rural Community Colleges: Issues and Problems Today and Over the Past 30 Years

Pennington

Williams

Karvonen

2006

Community College Journal of Research and Practice

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“…''The overwhelmingly positive perception of rural America sits uncomfortably beside a vision of rural Americans as poor people with little hope of economic progress'' (W. K. Kellogg Foundation, 2001, p. 9). Gillett-Karam (1995) described the rural United States in terms of low total population, low educational attainment, high rates of illiteracy, slow job growth, low per-capita income, and high poverty. Basic human needs, including food, cost more in rural areas.…”

Section: The State Of Rural America In 1990smentioning

confidence: 98%

An Early History of the Rural Community College Initiative: Reflections on the Past and Implications for the Future

Kennamer

Katsinas

2011

Community College Journal of Research and Practice

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“…They are also less racially and ethnically diverse (Hardy and Katsinas ). Furthermore, colleges located in rural areas often serve students with personal circumstances (e.g., limited transportation and childcare or elder care responsibilities) that can present barriers to academic success (Gillett‐Karam ). In light of this, DE programs play a critical role for rural‐serving colleges and their students (Koricich and Boylan ).…”

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“The Panhandle is Different than the Peninsula”: How Rural Colleges in Florida Implemented Education Reform

Nix

Jones

2019

Rural Sociology

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When it comes to the creation of higher education policy, state legislators are challenged with addressing the diverse academic needs of college students enrolled across a spectrum of institutions. In this paper, we explore how 203 individuals at five rural‐serving colleges in Florida engaged in state‐wide developmental education (DE) reform using the theoretical framework of “situated cognition.” Specifically, we ask whether the colleges implemented DE reform in unique ways that may have differed from their non‐rural counterparts and what their rationale was for doing so. Our work indicates that institutional culture and capacity generated a combination of strengths and constraints in how reform played out in a rural context. In some ways, a rural‐serving identity made colleges more flexible and better able to adjust their advising and curricular structures to comply with the mandates of SB 1720. But in other ways, rural‐serving institutions lacked the resources necessary to adequately support students and campus personnel through this dramatic transition toward new ways of providing DE. In looking toward the passage and implementation of future education reform, we call upon policymakers to consider more deeply the design of policies to ensure they support rural and non‐rural colleges alike.

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Women and minorities in rural commmunity colleges: Programs for change

Abstract: The rural context and the place of women and minorities are presented and analyzed, along with some suggestions regarding issues where change is needed.

Cited by 6 publications

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Challenges Facing Rural Community Colleges: Issues and Problems Today and Over the Past 30 Years

Challenges Facing Rural Community Colleges: Issues and Problems Today and Over the Past 30 Years

An Early History of the Rural Community College Initiative: Reflections on the Past and Implications for the Future

“The Panhandle is Different than the Peninsula”: How Rural Colleges in Florida Implemented Education Reform

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