1st Edition
Community Colleges’ Responses to COVID-19 What Worked, What Did Not Work, and Lessons Learned
In 2021, community college practitioners, scholars, researchers, and leaders documented the challenge of what worked, what did not work, and lessons learned during the era of the COVID-19 pandemic.
This book summarizes the works of 39 authors who collectively wrote 14 peer reviewed papers in areas of leadership, curriculum, funding, social and racial tension, technology and digital access, self, family and community, and health and safety. Readers are challenged to embrace this era with innovative zeal and to continue to document community colleges’ evolutionary changes during this pandemic era. The book will be useful to higher education practitioners, scholars, and leaders, as well as individuals in organizations who are interested in how community colleges responded to challenges of change during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Community College Journal of Research and Practice.
1. Community Colleges Evolve during the COVID 19 Pandemic: What Worked, What Did Not Work, and Lessons Learned
Deborah L. Floyd, Christopher M. Mullin, and Gianna Ramdin
Leadership
2. Are We Doing Enough? COVID Responses from Urban and Rural Community Colleges
Mark M. D’Amico, Adam K. Atwell, Janet N. Spriggs, and Jeff A. Cox
3. The 21st Century’s Pandemic - One Florida College’s Response and Actions to Finding a Safe Path through the Initial Impact
Angela M. Garcia Falconetti and E. Allen Bottorff II
4. Lessons Learned from Institutional Responses to COVID- 19: Evidenced- Based Insights from a Qualitative Study of Historically Black Community Colleges
Terrell Strayhorn
Curriculum
5. Learning from COVID- 19: Challenges and Opportunities for International Education in Community Colleges
Rosalind Latiner Raby and Yi Leaf Zhang
6. How NSF S- STEM Scholarship Students Experience College during COVID- 19: Lessons to Improve STEM Education
Kristine Washburn and Debra D. Bragg
7. Community College English Faculty Pandemic Teaching: Adjustments in the Time of COVID- 19
Brett Griffiths, Lizbett Tinoco, Joanne Baird Giordano, Holly Hassel, Emily K. Suh, and Patrick Sullivan
8. Sustaining STEM Student Learning Support and Engagement during COVID- 19
Anjali Thanawala, Charles Murphy, and Toufic Hakim
9. One College Program, Seventy Different Campuses: Dual Enrollment, Community Colleges, and the Unique Challenges Faced during the COVID- 19 Pandemic
Matthew P. Ison, Elizabeth Cicchetti, Melissa Tolle, and Teresa Hernandez
Funding
10. A Snapshot of Financial Aid Practice during COVID- 19
Saralyn McKinnon- Crowley
Technology and Digital Access
11. COVID- 19 Pandemic and the Shift to Digital Learning: Experiences of Students in a Community College in Ghana
David Addae, Samuel Amponsah, and Belinda Juliet Gborti
12. Beyond the Digital Divide: Allowing for the Evolution of the College Community during the Pandemic
Swan Kim and Donna Kessler- Eng
13. Navigating the Storm: Community Colleges’ Decision to Pivot to Virtual International Education in Response to the COVID- 19 Pandemic
Heidi Fischer and Kimberley M. Cossey
14. Recommendations for Community Colleges in a Post- COVID- 19 World: What Worked, What Did Not and Assorted Commentary on Lessons Learned in One Community College
Laura McCarthy and Dave Ferreira
Self, Family, and Community
15. Basic Needs Initiatives at Texas Community College Hispanic- Serving Institutions: Changes in Service Offerings during the Covid- 19 Pandemic
Lisa K. Zottarelli, Ashley Moreno, Adrianna Miranda, Xiaohe Xu, and Thankam S. Sunil
Biography
Deborah L. Floyd is Professor of Higher Education Leadership and Research Methodology at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, USA. She is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Community College Journal of Research and Practice. Her research focuses on higher education leadership, community colleges, contemporary challenges, and baccalaureate models.
Christopher M. Mullin is Strategy Director for Data & Measurement at Lumina Foundation for Education, USA. His research interests include the influence of state P-20 education structures on the educational decisions of both institutions and individuals.
Gianna Ramdin is Associate Editor of the Community College Journal of Research and Practice. She is also Associate Graduate Faculty of Educational Leadership & Research Methodology, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, USA. Her primary research areas are the study of campus greening, and sustainable initiatives on university and college campuses.
