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Tawanna S. Robertson – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Mentoring is widely recognized as an effective approach to addressing educational needs in U.S. schools, emphasizing the importance of strong, long-term mentor-mentee relationships (Karaferye, 2018; Wood & Mayo-Wilson, 2012). These relationships can provide crucial support for youth facing social, emotional, and financial challenges (Kuperminc…
Descriptors: African American Students, Females, Mentors, Urban Schools
Klein-Collins, Rebecca; Shafenberg, Kari – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2023
An increasing percentage of students entering postsecondary institutions are working at least part-time and balancing multiple identities, responsibilities, and demands on their time and resources. As student demographics change, postsecondary institutions must rise to meet these students where they are. Two effective ways to do that include…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Credits, Prior Learning, Postsecondary Education
Temoso, Omphile; Myeki, Lindikaya W. – Research in Higher Education, 2023
Recent high dropout and low graduation rates in the South African higher education institutions as well as government funding cuts and the economic uncertainty due to COVID-19 pandemic have heightened the urgency for the higher education sector to improve its productivity. However, empirical evidence on the productivity growth of the sector…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Productivity, Disadvantaged Schools
Mary McDonald – Learning Assistance Review, 2023
This study is a follow-up to one on the pass rates of basic writers in a large, urban Midwestern university. Students who came for eight or more mandatory writing center tutorials for their basic writing course passed at a rate of 90% or higher each semester from 2013-2016. The current study examined their graduation rates. These students…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, College Students, Laboratories, Writing (Composition)
Mechelle Renee Kelso – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The low graduation rate of African American students is currently a problem. African American students are being enrolled in predominantly white institutions (PWIs) of higher education but are not graduating at the same pace as their counterparts. It is important for higher education institutions to learn more about their student population and…
Descriptors: African American Students, Graduation Rate, Predominantly White Institutions, Student Needs
Tobias, Wendy Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Students with disabilities have lower rates of graduation from institutions of postsecondary education as compared to their nondisabled peers (National Council on Disability, 2020). Supports for disabled students in higher education have relied primarily on a deficit-based, regulatory model of access, ignoring a more wholistic approach to access…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Academic Persistence, Graduation Rate, Self Concept
Judy R. Albakry – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Nationally collected data reveals that transfer students encounter added difficulty graduating on time from four-year institutions than non-transfer students. Since transfer students traditionally graduate at a lower rate, targeting and improving transfer students' graduation percentages is one way to augment an institution's overall graduation…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Honors Curriculum, Transfer Students, Graduation Rate
Felicia A. H. Nagel – ProQuest LLC, 2023
School officials, policymakers, administrators, and colleges and universities express concerns express concern regarding issues that affect the persistence of community college students. Graduation rates from community colleges continue to decline at colleges across the United States. The problem investigated in this study was how the negative…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Academic Advising, Graduation Rate, Negative Attitudes
Ashley Elaine Blake – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Even though teen pregnancy rates are declining, teen pregnancy remains a complex and problematic phenomenon in our culture. The problem addressed by this study was that although the number of births to teen mothers is decreasing, less than 50% of teen mothers are completing high school. The purpose of this qualitative, phenomenological study was…
Descriptors: Early Parenthood, Adolescents, Birth Rate, High School Graduates
Michael John Bolen – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this study was to assess whether student satisfaction with faculty and academic advisors varied based on the sex of the student and the students' academic college at a large public university in the Southeast. With the university aiming to improve its graduation rates, particularly male graduation rates, the Theory of Student…
Descriptors: Student Satisfaction, Faculty Advisers, Gender Differences, Graduation Rate
Jose Balmori de la Miyar; Daniel Prudencio; Adan Silverio-Murillo – Journal of Education for Business, 2023
This paper calculates the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on educational outcomes for undergraduate business programs in Mexico. We use administrative data from the National Association of Universities and Institutions of Higher Education and a difference-in-differences empirical strategy to estimate the impact. We find a negative effect on…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Outcomes of Education, Undergraduate Students
Sharp, Amanda M. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
A collection of data points can show an abundance of information about a college student, telling a data-driven story about a student's past, current, and sometimes predicting future challenges at the university but some challenges may not be able to be indicated by data points alone. Challenges such as mental health, financial challenges,…
Descriptors: College Students, Referral, School Holding Power, Caseworker Approach
Fanguy, Ronnie; Giguette, Ray; Richard, Lori – Administrative Issues Journal: Connecting Education, Practice, and Research, 2022
Higher education institutions face increased pressure from government and external funding sources to retain and graduate their students each year. Nationally, the federal government's IPEDS report defines the standard measure of an institution's retention and graduation success. When universities attempt to adapt this institutional standard to…
Descriptors: School Holding Power, Majors (Students), Graduation Rate, Evaluation Methods
Demeter, Elise; Dorodchi, Mohsen; Al-Hossami, Erfan; Benedict, Aileen; Slattery Walker, Lisa; Smail, John – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2022
About one-third of college students drop out before finishing their degree. The majority of those remaining will take longer than 4 years to complete their degree at "4-year" institutions. This problem emphasizes the need to identify students who may benefit from support to encourage timely graduation. Here we empirically develop machine…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Prediction, Graduation Rate, Time to Degree
Michael Anthony Milton – ProQuest LLC, 2022
"Reimagining Pastoral Education and Training" is a professional doctoral project born out of a burden of pastor-parish challenges that lead to pastoral dropout. A basic prelude question assesses the perceived problem: "Is there really a declining corps of young pastors leaving the ministry, disrupting their families, and…
Descriptors: Christianity, Higher Education, Burnout, Graduation Rate