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Boody-Billings, Jana – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This research study seeks to explain how perceptions about higher education impact persistence in first-generation students within the University of Maine System. The design uses semi-structured interviews as well as data from the University of Maine System's 2020 National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) to analyze how engagement and…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, First Generation College Students, Academic Persistence, National Surveys
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Jones, Mark C. – Journal of Geography, 2023
The article explains the limited presence of geography in New England higher education as a result of the structure of the region's higher education system. Blending the geography and history of education literatures, it identifies type of control (public vs. private), institution type, urban location, multi-campus university systems, and the weak…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Geography, Incidence, Higher Education
Malloy, Dannel; Daigler, David – Maine Community College System, 2021
Public Law 2015, Chapter 261 created the Public Higher Education Systems Coordinating Committee to recognize more formally the importance of cooperative efforts between Maine's two public systems of higher education. The Committee is comprised of the Chancellor of the University of Maine System (UMS), the President of the Maine Community College…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Higher Education, Public Colleges, Access to Education