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STUDENTS AND CAREERS: A MIXED METHODS STUDY ON COMMUNITY COLLEGE STUDENTS’ SENSE OF BELONGING IN THEIR CAREER DEVELOPMENT JOURNEY
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2025-08
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Educational Leadership
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https://doi.org/10.34944/rrdz-h745
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Community colleges offer compelling opportunities for learning, connections, and exposure to new industries. This mixed methods dissertation study was conducted at an urban community college, the largest in Philadelphia, to explore student perceptions of their sense of belonging and career supports on campus. Protean career theory and boundaryless career theory informed the design of qualitative interview questions and supplementary items in the University Belongingness Questionnaire for Community College students (UBQ-CC). Data from 73 students and a subsequent 10 interviews of those surveyed revealed positive relationships between factors of sense of belonging and career support (N = 53–66; following cleaned data). Meta-inferences revealed the building blocks of career belonging in community college contexts (CBC3). CBC3 is an operational framework to advance student career outcomes and provide direction in what impacts student success toward their professional development.
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