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Announcement

We are excited to inform you that the new administrative home for the Council for the Study of Community Colleges will be the Office of Community College Research and Leadership (OCCRL) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign beginning January 1, 2020. The organization is led by Dr. Eboni Zamani-Gallaher, who serves as director of OCCRL and professor of higher education and community college leadership in the College of Education at Illinois.  Dr. Zamani-Gallaher's academic career has focused on the transition of marginalized collegians, the transfer process, access policies, student development, and support services at community colleges. She has been actively involved with CSCC for more than two decades, including as chair of the dissertation of the year committee, membership committee, and as a board member for three years, serving as president-elect, president, and past president.

Dr. Zamani-Gallaher will serve as executive director of CSCC upon the transition. She no doubt will be an asset in helping us gain visibility and capital through her extensive experience working with nonprofit organizations, foundations, and two-and four-year institutions. We envision future collaborations with strategic partners who will help us grow our resource development operations and organization membership.

As we embark on this transition from the University of North Texas (UNT) to the University of Illinois, we extend our most sincere gratitude to Dr. Beverly Bower, CSCC's current executive director, as well as Sue Young, CSCC's administrative coordinator, for their dedicated service during the past six years. CSCC has reached new heights through our partnership with the team at UNT, and we look forward to accomplishing many great things with OCCRL in the coming years.

Sincerely,
Mark D'Amico, CSCC President

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CSCC

The Council for the Study of Community Colleges (CSCC) is an affiliate of the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) and a project of the Center for the Study of Community Colleges. Council members include university-based researchers and community college practitioners who further scholarship on the community college enterprise.   READ MORE

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Building Alumni Loyalty in an Online World
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Literacy in the ‘In-Between Spaces’ of Community Colleges: Interstitial Practices in Developmental Reading and Career Technical Education
May 1, 2019 This report presents information on a study that was undertaken at three community college sites. The study was designed to answer the following research question: “What constitutes college-level text-readiness?” The study design involved two simultaneous threads of data collection: one for career…    Read More
“A Foundation for Something Bigger”: Community College Students’ Experience of Remediation in the Context of a Learning Community
May 1, 2019 This longitudinal, qualitative study explores developmental English students’ experience of remediation in the context of a first-semester learning community (LC). Conducted at an urban community college in the Northeast, data were collected through semi-structured interviews conducted over a 3-year…    Read More
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Pilot Study: Examining the Experiences of Rural Community College Transfer Students Who Attend Four Year Institutions With No Pre-Established Transfer Receptive Culture
March 1, 2019 Abstract The following paper will examine the experiences of rural community college transfer students who later attend four year institutions with no established Transfer Receptive Culture (TRC). Using current literature and applicable theoretical frameworks as lenses to address the…    Read More

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