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Sylvia Louise Quinton – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Legislation and litigation to end desegregation in higher education and improve college choice to HBCUs abound while academic programs continue to impact college choice. The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine the influence of Maryland's dual system of public higher education on college choice, specifically through community college…
Descriptors: College Choice, Community Colleges, Transfer Students, Black Colleges
Brittany Sanner – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Women continue to be underrepresented within the STEM field. This qualitative, narrative, research student explores the expectations and experiences of women enrolled in a STEM program during their second year. Focusing on understanding their relationships with academic advising, faculty, and peers of all genders. Semi-structured interviews were…
Descriptors: Females, Womens Education, STEM Education, STEM Careers
Bloomfield, Amber; Rose, Bess A.; Preston, Alison M.; Henneberger, Angela K. – Association for Institutional Research, 2020
Brain drain--the movement of high school and college graduates out of state for employment--is a concern for state policymakers. This study focuses on brain drain of students who graduate from high school in Maryland. Using data from the Maryland Longitudinal Data System and applying propensity score matching to control for differences between the…
Descriptors: Brain Drain, Migration Patterns, Relocation, Student Mobility
Hall, Stephanie; Curtis, Ramond; Wofford, Carrie – Century Foundation, 2020
State policy leaders have an opportunity to take leadership in protecting students--and especially student veterans--from being targeted by predatory colleges. Given failings by the federal government to police for-profit colleges and to ensure basic rights for students to attend college without being defrauded, it now falls to the states to step…
Descriptors: Proprietary Schools, State Policy, Veterans, Deception
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Bista, Krishna; Gaulee, Uttam – Journal of International Students, 2017
This section shares recent dissertations and theses with the "Journal of International Students" readers. There were about 139 graduate dissertations and theses related to the issues and challenges of international students in 2016. The complete versions of these selected dissertations are available in the ProQuest, Michigan-based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Foreign Students, Content Analysis