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Winfield, Jake D. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic has threatened to widen racial educational achievement and attainment gaps in the United States, reinforcing a need to understand how education policy can work to advance racial equity. Dual enrollment (DE) programs offer a potential policy solution that could increase college-going for these students as participation has…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, Access to Education, Intersectionality, Student Participation
Jason A. Stack – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this quantitative research study was to examine the enrollment trends of racial minority and low socioeconomic enrollment, and the equity of higher education access at a four-year private institution in western Pennsylvania. The study concentrated on two student populations over a five-year period at a four-year private institution…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Higher Education, Enrollment Trends, College Enrollment
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Jay K. Solomonson; Trent Wells; Bryan D. Rank; Blessing Ugwuanyi – NACTA Journal, 2023
Recently, enrollments at numerous American universities have been trending downward. This has led to an increasingly competitive atmosphere for attracting new students, creating the need to better understand why students ultimately attend their chosen institution. Prior research has explored factors that influence students to pursue agricultural…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Colleges, Land Grant Universities, School Choice
Juliana Cerentini Pacico – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The 2015 Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) emphasized that students, regardless of group membership, should graduate ready for college or work. The economic impact of not being ready is significantly negative. Non-cognitive skills (NCSs) assessments have been used to identify students at risk and intervene to help prevent undesirable outcomes.…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, Test Bias
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Luis Herskovic; Josefina Silva – Educational Studies, 2024
Although it is well documented that women are under-represented in STEM majors, the causes of this under-representation in different contexts are less clear. This article studies the relevance of absolute and relative performance in high school courses on STEM field enrollment when entering college in Chile. We use administrative countrywide data…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, High School Students, Decision Making, STEM Education
Peter Granville – Century Foundation, 2024
The U.S. Department of Education's three-month delay in launching the new Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form and the subsequent lack of continuous access, ambiguities in the form, and data reporting errors have resulted in a significant decline in form completions for 2024. The analysis in this report--a first-of-its kind study…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Student Loan Programs, Need Analysis (Student Financial Aid), Paying for College
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Jay Plasman; Desmond Myles – Exceptional Children, 2024
Despite growing calls to increase diversity in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields, students with learning disabilities (SWLDs) remain underrepresented in STEM at the postsecondary level. Considering this call for increased diversity as a means to expand and strengthen STEM success, we used the High School Longitudinal…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, STEM Education, Career Pathways, Engineering
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Anders Lindström – Education Economics, 2024
This article studies a sample of displaced workers during the deep 1990s recession in Sweden and estimates the effect of secondary-level adult education on tertiary-level educational attainment. Plant closures and mass layoffs are used to identify job separations unrelated to individual productivity. Results indicate a large positive effect of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Attainment, Secondary Education, Higher Education
William Zahran – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In this dissertation, I study the relationships between financial aid, student characteristics, persistence, and completion in three separate chapters. In all three chapters, I use detailed, student-level administrative data from the UNC System beginning in the Fall 2013 semester. The first chapter is entitled "Tuition Reduction and Student…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Public Colleges, Student Characteristics, Academic Persistence
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Austin R. Jenkins; Virginia L. J. Bolshakova – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2024
Postsecondary education enrollment is declining across the United States. The U.S. Department of Education's Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) initiative focuses on increasing the college-going rate of students living in low-income neighborhoods through targeted university-community partnerships (UCPs).…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Participatory Research, Access to Education, Low Income Students
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Glass, Leah E. – Education and Urban Society, 2023
There is an increasingly large disparity in college graduation rates among low-income and first-generation college students. Research suggests that the main reason for this discrepancy is the lack of access to information and knowledge about the college process. First-generation students have fewer people in their social network who went to…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, College Enrollment, Mentors, Social Capital
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Chingos, Matthew M.; Kisida, Brian – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2023
Washington, DC's Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP), the only federally funded school voucher program in the United States, has provided private school scholarships to low-income students in DC since 2004. From its inception, the program has received significant attention in national debates and has been the subject of rigorous evaluations…
Descriptors: Educational Vouchers, College Enrollment, Program Effectiveness, Enrollment Rate
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Munir, Nighat – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2023
This survey research investigated the factors influencing enrolments and study completion rates of persons with physical impairments in two government universities of Karachi. The population of the study consisted of non-students with physical impairments and university students with physical impairments. The sample of the study consisted of 20…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Physical Disabilities, Time to Degree
Ashley Edwards; Justin Ortagus; Jonathan Smith; Andria Smythe – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
Using data from nearly 1.2 million Black SAT takers, we estimate the impacts of initially enrolling in an Historically Black College and University (HBCU) on educational, economic, and financial outcomes. We control for the college application portfolio and compare students with similar portfolios and levels of interest in HBCUs and non-HBCUs who…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Higher Education, African American Students, College Enrollment
Kristina V. Willey – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This quantitative study explored the intricate landscape of marketing strategies influencing adult learners' satisfaction with their decisions to enroll in community colleges. Using survey research design, this study illuminated significant insights into the multifaceted world of higher education marketing, particularly in the context of community…
Descriptors: Marketing, Adult Students, Adult Learning, Community College Students
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