Campus Location
Dallas Campus (Online)
Date of Award
4-2024
ORCID
https://orcid.org/0009-0004-6862-9734
Document Type
Dissertation
Department
Organizational Leadership
Degree Name
Doctor of Education
Committee Chair or Primary Advisor
Jeffry L. White
Second Committee Member or Secondary Advisor
Suzanne Barker
Third Committee Member or Committee Reader
Javier Flores
Abstract
Increasing the number of STEM professionals and reducing inequities in STEM are national priorities. Community colleges are important to address these concerns because they represent a higher percentage of underrepresented minority (URM) and women students. However, students starting 4-year STEM degrees in community college have had a lower completion rate. Partnerships between community colleges and 4-year universities have the potential to improve success for community college students, but more research is necessary. The purpose of this ex post facto, quantitative, correlational study was to determine the relationships among participation in different types of partnerships between community colleges and 4-year universities, URM status, gender, and completion of engineering degrees by community college students. The researcher collected ex post facto data regarding completion, URM status, and gender from the National Student Clearinghouse for 145 community college students who participated in three different community college partnerships and transferred to the respective 4-year university partner institutions in 2017 and 2018. A chi-square test was performed to determine the relationships among participation in different types of partnerships between community colleges and 4-year universities, URM status, gender, and completion of engineering degrees by community college students. The chi-square analysis implied that participation in different types of partnerships influenced completion outcomes, but did not imply that completion outcomes were influenced by URM and gender for all partnerships. These findings suggest that although participation in different types of partnerships influences completion outcomes, specific types of partnerships influence completion outcomes when considering URM and women students.
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Recommended Citation
Stear, Jeffrey Mark, "Community College Engineering Degree Partnerships With 4-Year Universities" (2024). Digital Commons @ ACU, Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 770.
https://digitalcommons.acu.edu/etd/770