Does Cooling Out Still Apply? Community Colleges and Educational Expectations

Grubbs, Samuel J.

doi:10.1080/10668926.2020.1724573

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Clark (1960) asserted that it is a duty of academic advisors at community colleges to guide overly ambitious students toward alternate areas of study and career aspirations. While researchers have examined various forms of "cooling out" that may occur within these institutions (Conway, 2010;Grubbs, 2020), studies focusing specifically on academic advising have generally found advisors are beneficial to community college students' academic engagement and success (Bahr, 2008;Center for Community College Student Engagement, 2018;Seidman, 1991). Strayhorn (2015) states that academic advising is the primary point in which students access information, tools, and resources to navigate successfully through college; moreover, advisors serve as cultural navigators who can help students understand the assets they bring to campus and identify ways for students to leverage these strengths in new settings.…”

Section: Navigating the Community College Experiencementioning

confidence: 99%

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Incentivizing Full-Time Enrollment at Community Colleges: What Influences Students’ Decision to Take More Courses?

McKinney

Burridge

Lee

et al. 2022

Community College Review

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Objective: Students’ enrollment intensity during their first academic semester and year are highly influential in their success and decisions to persist in community college. Limited research, however, has focused on understanding how students navigate the decision-making process of determining their credit load or how institutional support services, such as academic advising, influence these decisions. Our objective was to advance knowledge on this topic by examining the implementation of a 15 to Finish campaign to promote full-time enrollment at a large, racially/ethnically diverse community college system in Texas. Methods: We interviewed 24 students and eight academic advisors to identify key factors that influence recommendations for, and selection of, course load. The collection and analysis of the data employed the critical qualitative inquiry method, and data were analyzed through low- and high-level coding processes using reconstructive analysis. Results: The factors influencing student decision-making fall into three major areas: (1) academic performance, (2) financial considerations and other costs, and (3) advising experiences, with academic performance framing students’ discussion. Academic advisors agreed with the importance of full-time enrollment for students’ success and recognized the importance of reducing time-to-degree, but believed many students were not academically prepared or had too many commitments to enroll in 15 credits each semester. Conclusion: Consequently, a “one-more-course” approach may be more attractive for both students and advisors. We outline recommendations that better enable community college students to make optimal credit load decisions, which in turn can increase their academic momentum and chances for degree completion.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Section: Navigating the Community College Experiencementioning

confidence: 99%

Incentivizing Full-Time Enrollment at Community Colleges: What Influences Students’ Decision to Take More Courses?

McKinney

Burridge

Lee

et al. 2022

Community College Review

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“…The predictors of transfer have preoccupied researchers for various reasons. For academics, there has long been interest in determining if certain transfer-aspiring groups are effectively cooled out during the course of their trajectories (Bahr, 2008;Clark, 1960Clark, , 1980Grubbs, 2020;Simon, 1967). Meanwhile, for both administrators and policy makers, intelligence pertaining to how-and which-students travel non-linear pathways has always been useful from a planning, recruitment, and retention standpoint.…”

Section: Predictors Of Transfer Pathwaysmentioning

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Canadian Transfer Research: Past Achievements, Current Challenges, and Future Directions

Milian¹,

Zarifa

2022

CJHE

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The study of transfer in Canadian post-secondary education (PSE) is a fractured terrain, with vast inter-provincial differences and deep schisms between participating communities. At the time of writing, there exists no comprehensive review of the vast, fragmented literature examining the predictors and outcomes of Canadian transfer students, thus complicating the advancement of this subfield. Through this piece, we provide a bird’s eye view of a diverse group of 100+ academic articles, policy and institutional research reports on this topic, published from 1968-2020. We use this review to trace the evolution of this complex sub-field in Canada, outlining the major findings, methodological approaches, gaps, and future challenges that Canadian researchers will face as they attempt to improve our understanding of transfer. Drawing on examples from the American and European contexts, we illustrate the need for more robust administrative data sources and methodological sophistication in Canadian transfer research. We also cite inclusive inter-sector collaboration as a key strategy to improve research in this field.

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“…To analyse this process, we focus on the 'cooling out' function of (reception) education. We borrow this concept from Clark (1960Clark ( : 1980 who focused on higher education in the USA and suggested that one of the functions of community college, particularly the community college counsellor, is to cool out students whose academic ambitions seem to exceed their abilities (for recent applications, see Bahr, 2010;Grubbs, 2020). Clark (1960Clark ( : 1980 described community colleges as a setting where "failure or denial is the effect of a structured discrepancy between culturally instilled goals and institutionally provided means of realization".…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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“That way there are no surprises in the end”: the cooling out function of reception education for newly arrived migrant students in Flanders

2022

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Does Cooling Out Still Apply? Community Colleges and Educational Expectations

Cited by 4 publications

References 41 publications

Incentivizing Full-Time Enrollment at Community Colleges: What Influences Students’ Decision to Take More Courses?

Incentivizing Full-Time Enrollment at Community Colleges: What Influences Students’ Decision to Take More Courses?

Canadian Transfer Research: Past Achievements, Current Challenges, and Future Directions

“That way there are no surprises in the end”: the cooling out function of reception education for newly arrived migrant students in Flanders

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