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Fay, Maggie P.; Jaggars, Shanna S.; Farakish, Negar – Community College Review, 2022
Objective: Few community college students who aspire to transfer ever do so. Prior research suggests that relationships with advisors, faculty, and administrators may play an important role in promoting successful transfer outcomes, particularly for traditionally underserved students. This study examines how students identified and weighed…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, College Transfer Students, Academic Advising
Jenness, Sarah; Acheampong, Zoe – Jobs for the Future, 2022
This resource provides helpful information for high school teachers and counselors to better understand computer science, an industry that has many high-wage jobs open across the country. The resource supports effective advising by including an overview of computer science, cybersecurity, and networking; defines in-demand computer science skills…
Descriptors: High School Teachers, Counselors, Computer Science, Academic Advising
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Groce, LaVonna L.; Johnson, Leonissa V. – Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 2021
Undocumented immigrant students represent 2% of the total U.S. higher education population. Due to their citizenship status, many undocumented high school students encounter barriers to college access including prohibitive admissions policies, increased tuition rates, and funding restrictions. Some undocumented students experience anxiety,…
Descriptors: School Counselors, Counselor Role, Undocumented Immigrants, Access to Education
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Bowman, Nicholas A.; Stroup, Nicholas R.; Fenton-Miller, Solomon – Journal of Higher Education, 2023
Given the substantial lack of racial diversity within the U.S. legal profession, it is important to understand how to improve the representation of racially minoritized students at law schools. This study uses panel data from the 2010s to consider several types of factors that may shape the number and percentage of incoming law school students…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, Student Diversity, Law Schools, Disproportionate Representation
Megan Simila – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the factors that influence the college choice process for first-generation, low-income, and academically at-risk students in a TRIO Upward Bound program. The literature review theoretically explores the multi-level factors with Perna's college choice model, social construction theory, and Bourdieu's social,…
Descriptors: College Choice, First Generation College Students, Low Income Students, At Risk Students
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Audyatis, Todd – College and University, 2021
The literature on college choice is extensive and navigating it for purposes of review is complicated by the dual meaning given to the word choice. To clarify, in this article, the phrase "college choice" refers to the concept defined by Don Hossler and Karen Gallagher in their seminal 1987 article entitled "Studying Student College…
Descriptors: African American Students, College Choice, Student Recruitment, Racial Bias
Mountjoy, Jack; Hickman Brent R. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2021
Students who attend different colleges in the U.S. end up with vastly different economic outcomes. We study the role of relative value-added across colleges within student choice sets in producing these outcome disparities. Linking high school, college, and earnings registries spanning the state of Texas, we identify relative college value-added…
Descriptors: Value Added Models, Higher Education, State Universities, Decision Making
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Perna, Laura W., Ed. – Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, 2021
Published annually since 1985, the Handbook series provides a compendium of thorough and integrative literature reviews on a diverse array of topics of interest to the higher education scholarly and policy communities. Each chapter provides a comprehensive review of research findings on a selected topic, critiques the research literature in terms…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Research, High Schools, Educational Change
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Kang, Chungseo; García Torres, Darlene – Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2021
Using the National Center for Education Statistics 2002-2012 Educational Longitudinal Study (ELS) data set, this study examines the relation between college undermatching and bachelor's degree attainment, and whether the influences of undermatching on bachelor's degree attainment vary by race/ethnicity. Results revealed students who undermatched…
Descriptors: College Choice, Educational Attainment, Bachelors Degrees, Time to Degree
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Xie, Xiujuan – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2022
This study explores how transnational higher education partnerships in China influence Chinese students' intercultural communicative competence (ICC) and their motivation to study abroad. There is a growing trend for Chinese students to experience cultural diversity. However, not much research has been conducted to understand how transnational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intercultural Communication, Study Abroad, Cultural Awareness
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Vietze, Jana; van Herpen, Sanne G. A.; Dias-Broens, Aike; Severiens, Sabine E.; Meeuwisse, Marieke – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2022
Self-selection refers to the decision of qualified students to not pursue their highest possible educational degree, including higher education. In this systematic meta-review, we used the conceptual framework of college choice to identify resources or mechanisms for students' self-selection from higher education in international reviews and…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Higher Education, Disproportionate Representation, Mentors
Ruffalo Noel Levitz, 2023
Parents and guardians are the biggest influencers on enrollment for students. Nearly all are invested and involved in the college search process with their students. But are colleges and universities really engaging them? Are they communicating the right information, with the right frequency, across the right channels? Are they helping families…
Descriptors: Parent Role, Access to Information, College Role, Information Dissemination
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Rodriguez, Awilda; Rosario-Ramos, Enid; Clasing Manquian, Paula; Rosario Colón, Adriana – Journal of Higher Education, 2021
After Hurricane María, approximately 3,500 students enrolled in on Florida's school district from Puerto Rico. Displaced Puerto Rican high schoolers incurred the transitional costs of forced migration at a time in their educational trajectories when they are formulating their postsecondary plans. While student mobility is not uncommon, prevailing…
Descriptors: College Choice, Decision Making, Natural Disasters, Trauma
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King, Madeleine; Courtier, Maxine; Shaw, Chet; Anderson, Cynthia; Widdowson, John – Athens Journal of Education, 2021
The purpose of the research was to discover the views of three groups of International students who were undertaking their Higher Education (HE) in a publicly-funded college, rather than a university setting. A comparative survey was undertaken by International students attending an American Community College, an Australian Technical and Further…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, College Students, Student Experience, Student Recruitment
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Gore, Oliver Tafadzwa – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2021
Although engagement of the low-income students increased since the introduction of inclusive policies in the post-apartheid higher education in South Africa, inequality of access, participation and achievement still persists. While focus has been on increasing enrolment and addressing students' concerns in universities, little attention has been…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Low Income Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Student Attitudes
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