Over the last decade, community college researchers and practitioners
increasingly have focused on student engagement as a cornerstone of a successful student
success agenda. This study investigated community college student engagement using an
ex post facto quantitative methodology. This study reports the results of the five specialfocus
survey items from 2009 CCSSE national administration and data collected from
institutional Facebook pages. This study measured student engagement levels based on
five constructs from the Community College Survey of Student Engagement (Active and
Collaborative Learning, Student-Faculty Interaction, Academic Challenge, Student
Effort, and Support for Learners), including more than 176,000 survey respondents.
Differences in engagement levels were explored in terms of student characteristics
including gender, race/ethnicity, developmental status, weekly preparation, commute