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Bettencourt, Genia M.; Wells, Ryan S.; Abbott, Jordan A. – Teachers College Record, 2022
Background: Although students with disabilities are enrolling in higher education in larger numbers than ever before, they are still underrepresented in colleges and universities, particularly among four-year institutions. College choice has been explored across multiple facets, but limited research has examined the college choice processes of…
Descriptors: College Choice, Disabilities, Accessibility (for Disabled), Higher Education
Amanda L. Sohl – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Advising students on college admissions and financial aid is an important pillar of most high school counseling programs. This work has become more challenging for many school counselors since the pandemic, so it is imperative to find new ways to explore how counselors approach college advising today. This novel research utilized Hansen's (1995)…
Descriptors: School Counselors, Counseling Techniques, High School Students, College Choice
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Kristy L. Tipton – New Directions for Higher Education, 2024
College Credit Plus (CCP) is a dual enrollment program allowing high school students to obtain both high school credit and college credit by participating in college courses at a local higher education institution. CCP courses can be taken at a college or university, at the student's high school, or online. This research seeks to find if CCP…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, College Credits, High School Students, In Person Learning
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Shichao Du – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2024
How horizontal stratification in education influences marriage expectations is less known. Using data from the 2009 Beijing College Students Panel Survey and a fuzzy regression discontinuity design, this study examines whether university quality impacts students' intended age at marriage. Results show that attending a tier 1 university, relative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Stratification, Higher Education, Age
Blayne D. Stone Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Higher education (i.e., colleges and universities) institutions must have a thorough understanding of the college-going process for potential students to be successful in their enrollment, retention, and graduation efforts. The college-going process often consists of deciding to pursue higher education, choosing an institution, and selecting a…
Descriptors: African American Students, College Students, Student Experience, Foster Care
Toberman, Daniel – ProQuest LLC, 2023
There is a great disparity in college-going rates between students from the highest and lowest socio economic quantiles in the United States. This quantitative study looks at messages students receive about college as a way to explore reasons why students choose to attend or not to attend college. [The dissertation citations contained here are…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, College Bound Students, Student Attitudes, Decision Making
Mitchell Borges – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this qualitative descriptive design study was to explore how college freshmen attending an out-of-state undergraduate university describe the influence of social media on the search and choice phases of the college decision process. The study's foundation was Hossler and Gallagher's college choice theory which divides the college…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Out of State Students, College Choice, Decision Making
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Rachelle Winkle-Wagner – SUNY Press, 2023
"The Chosen We" elevates the oral histories of 105 accomplished, college-educated Black women who earned success despite experiencing reprehensible racist and sexist barriers. The central argument is that these women succeeded in and beyond college by developing a "Chosen We"--a community with one another. The book builds on…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Females, African Americans, Racism
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Stephen Wilkins; Joe Hazzam; John J. Ireland; Rudy Kana – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2024
Based on the first ratings of international branch campuses (IBCs) by Dubai's Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA), which are further supported by findings in the literature, we investigated students' institution choices and satisfaction, focusing on country of origin and campus environment as possible key influences. The study adopts…
Descriptors: Multicampus Colleges, International Cooperation, College Environment, College Choice
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Gregor Schäfer; Katharina Walgenbach – European Journal of Higher Education, 2024
This article examines the relevance of different institutional levels in higher education for the educational strategies of upper milieu students in a case study conducted in Germany. Based on our analysis of 95 qualitative interviews with Masters students from different social backgrounds, we show how upper milieu students take advantage of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Masters Degrees, Graduate Students, Reputation
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Kun Dai; Stephen Wilkins; Xiaofan Zhang – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2024
International branch campuses (IBCs) are commonly used by nations and universities to achieve internationalization. Although existing research has examined students' attitudes and behaviors toward IBCs, few studies have investigated these issues in an intra-country context. Hong Kong institutions' IBCs in the Greater Bay Area of Mainland China are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Education, International Schools, Higher Education
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Florent Girardin; Inès Blal; Renaud Lunardo – Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, 2024
Higher education institutions (HEIs) engage more and more in branding activities to sustain an advantage in an increasingly high competitive environment. In such a pressing managerial context, research on brand management in the specific context of higher education expanded over the past few years. While research indicates that brand authenticity…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Marketing, College Choice, Reputation
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Kevin Patton; Melissa Parker – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2023
Purpose: This study's purpose was to explore professional career paths into physical education teacher education. Methods: Participants included 27 physical education teacher educators with an average of 20.2 years of experience selected from among attendees at international conferences, using a combination of convenience and purposive sampling.…
Descriptors: Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Education, Decision Making, Career Change
Amanda R. Fronek – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Utilizing Iloh's Model of College Going Decisions and Trajectories (Iloh, 2018) and guided by the three-dimensional narrative inquiry framework, this study explored how Black women recounted their decisions to attend for-profit higher education institutions for graduate education. The researcher interviewed eight participants for this study. The…
Descriptors: Females, Blacks, African Americans, Graduate Study
Gokhan Depo – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This investigation examines undergraduate students' perceptions of university rankings and their understanding of the factors that define a quality university, focusing on students at a Flagship State University (FSU) in the Midwest. Following responses to a survey that asked students to indicate the level of importance that rankings played in…
Descriptors: Universities, Institutional Characteristics, Achievement Rating, Undergraduate Students
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