Scholarship on Community College Student Affairs: A Review of 10 Years of Published Research Between 2010-2019

ABSTRACT

To explore the extent at which the published student affairs research in top-tier journals is conducted primarily at four-year institutions at the exclusion of literature oncommunity colleges, we conducted a content analysis to examine the number and type of journal articles related to community colleges published in the Journal of College Student Development and the Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice between 2010 and 2019. During the time frame examined, 0.99% of the journals’ articles consisted of work related to community colleges or two-year institutions. We provide recommendations for professional associations, graduate preparation programs, researchers, and educators to change this pattern.

KEYWORDS:

• Student affairs
• literature
• journal

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).