Call for Proposals: New Directions for Community Colleges
Special Issue on The Community College Student Experience Through the Lens of 
CCCSE Findings
Guest Editors: Courtney Adkins, Linda Garcia, and E. Michael Bohlig
CCCSE, The University of Texas at Austin

New Directions for Community Colleges (NDCC) has been devoted to providing community college practitioners with useful information and expert guidance since 1973. NDCC is a journal that presents the latest developments and emerging issues in community college education to an audience of administrators, faculty, student affairs leaders, trustees, and decision-makers. As a quarterly journal with over a 50-year publication history, NDCC offers practical recommendations on current trends in the field of community college education and provides expert guidance in meeting the challenges of the distinctive and expanding educational missions of two-year and community colleges.

For two decades, CCCSE (the Center for Community College Student Engagement) has offered community and technical colleges a suite of survey instruments that assess complementary components of the community college student experience with a focus on student engagement. For an upcoming special issue, we invite articles that examine the student experience through the lens of data captured by those survey instruments: CCSSE (Community College Survey of Student Engagement), CCFSSE Community College Faculty Survey of Student Engagement), and SENSE (Survey of Entering Student Engagement). As institutional leaders seek to address declines in enrollment and completion rates, uncovering and exploring the aspects of the student experience identified in CCCSE surveys that propel and impede student success and completion is of paramount importance.

Topics may include:

  • Equity
  • Use of support services
  • Student parents
  • Students who are active military and veterans
  • Part-time students
  • Career and technical education
  • Faculty practices
  • Service learning
  • Students with disabilities
  • Student basic needs
  • Mental health and well-being
  • Focus on types of institutions (e.g., Tribal Colleges, Historically Black Colleges, Hispanic-Serving Institutions, rural institutions, etc.)

Proposals on other topics related to student success using CCCSE data are most welcome.

Submissions are welcome from researchers at two-year institutions, university faculty, graduate students, and from collaborations among two- and four-year institutional researchers.

Submission Guidelines and Timeline

Interested authors should send an abstract of 200-500 words to Courtney Adkins at adkins@cccse.org by August 15, 2024. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by October 1, 2024. Full manuscripts of no more than 6000 words (including references) should be submitted by February 1, 2025. This volume is expected to be published in late 2025. 

Full Author Guidelines are available at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/15360733/homepage/forauthors.html.

Other themed issues of New Directions for Community Colleges can be viewed at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/15360733. 

A full free sample issue is available at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10.1002/(ISSN)1536-0733/free-sample. If you are unfamiliar with NDCC, it is highly recommended that you browse some published works to get a feel for its focus, audience, tone, and so forth.