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Rausch, Philip D. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The problem at the southeastern university study site is that adult nontraditional learners taking classes on campus are graduating at a low rate, which may indicate a lack of needed support services. The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to explore the learning support needs of adult nontraditional learners and institutional support…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Nontraditional Students, College Students, Graduation Rate
Karl D. Liedtka – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The researcher designed this qualitative descriptive study to investigate the experiences of successful first-generation, low-income college students that contributed to their ability to complete a bachelor's degree. A strength-based perspective was used to examine successful students and their unique abilities, allowing them to overcome various…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Low Income Students, Student Experience, Success
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Morgan Polikof; Isabel Clay; Daniel Silver – Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2023
Recent state and national achievement exam results, as well as academic progress reports, have underscored how the COVID-19 pandemic and related school closures had a large, negative impact on students' reading and math development. While a great deal is known about the test-based academic impacts of the pandemic such as test scores that provide…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Outcome Measures, Attendance
Samantha H. Souvatzis – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this non-experimental quantitative survey method is to gather State GEAR UP leaders' perceptions about the actual program activities and their sense of importance of those same program activities. The objectives of the GEAR UP Program are: (a) to increase the academic performance; (b) preparation for postsecondary education of…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Leaders, Readiness, Graduation Rate
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Schindler, Victoria P.; Boney, Janette D. – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2022
Students with various Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition (DSM-5) diagnoses have increasingly enrolled in colleges and universities. Although graduation rates are lower for this group, some students succeed, and mentoring programs are increasingly part of this success. The purpose of this article is to describe a…
Descriptors: Graduation, Clinical Diagnosis, Mental Disorders, Graduation Rate
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Bowman, Nicholas A.; Denson, Nida – Journal of Higher Education, 2022
College graduation rates for racially minoritized students are adversely affected by structural barriers and hostile campus racial climates, which lead to notable equity gaps within and across institutions. Theory and prior literature suggest that the representation of racially minoritized students and instructors may play a role in shaping these…
Descriptors: Institutional Characteristics, Equal Education, Minority Group Students, Racism
Richard A. Coladarci – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Community college students graduate at low rates nationwide which prevents many noncompleters from benefiting from the economic and employment advantages of a degree or certificate. Despite myriad strategies to address this problem, little is known about the impact of faculty job satisfaction on student completion. The purpose of this study was to…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Job Satisfaction, Community College Students, Academic Persistence
Sheryl R. Holton – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Student success courses are a common strategy for addressing student retention in higher education. Though the literature implies positive effect on student outcomes, few studies have explored factors contributing to their efficacy, especially within the community college context. The purpose of this modified Delphi study was to identify essential…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Academic Achievement, Courses, Academic Persistence
Egon J. Heidendal – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Performance funding has been a popular form of funding colleges and universities for several decades. Often the purpose is to make universities more efficient (Miao, 2012). Missouri has had two separate models of performance funding in play, a decade apart. In this research both performance funding models are examined, including a 10- year period…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Public Colleges, Educational Finance, Financial Support
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M. Lynn Breyfogle; Kimberly A. Daubman – Student Success, 2024
In an effort to improve student success and thus retention, the College of Arts & Sciences at a highly selective MidAtlantic private undergraduate university in the United States developed a for-credit course titled "Psychology of Success." The course, grounded in positive psychology, adopts a strengths-based approach. Students who…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, School Holding Power, College Freshmen, Academic Probation
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Winny Dong; Rebecca M. Eddy; David M. Mendelsohn; Courtney Koletar; Monique Matelski; Everardo Barraza – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2024
This paper reports on the results of a study of 6,654 unique students on the type of research-related activities (e.g., undergraduate research and internships) they participated in while at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona). Results indicate that the odds of graduating for students who participated in…
Descriptors: Student Research, Undergraduate Students, Hispanic American Students, Minority Serving Institutions
Sarah Cohodes; Astrid Pineda – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2024
The charter school movement encompasses many school models. In Massachusetts in the 2010's, the site of our study, urban charter schools primarily used "No Excuses" practices, whereas nonurban charters had greater model variety. Using randomized admissions lotteries, we estimate the impact of charter schools by locality on college…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Urban Schools, Educational Practices, School Effectiveness
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Oudai Tozan – Policy Reviews in Higher Education, 2024
It has long been debated as to whether higher education (HE) is a site of social mobility that promotes meritocracy or social reproduction that creates and exacerbates inequalities in societies. In this paper, I will argue that HE, even when democratised and provided free to everyone, reproduces inequalities unless coupled with an inclusive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Equal Education, Sex
Kourtney Ross – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The concept of engagement was first introduced to literature in 1992 by William Kahn. The notion was originally described as psychological presence. "Psychological presence" is described as "the experiential state enabling organization members to draw deeply on their personal selves in role performances, that is, to express thoughts…
Descriptors: Student Personnel Workers, Employee Attitudes, Participation, Influences
Alana Tibbs – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This quantitative study examined non-TRIO participating first-generation college students' graduation rates and the impact of academic and social integration in one community college setting. This study used archival data to analyze tutoring, purchasing a meal plan, and living in campus housing. The study used Tinto's (1993) Model of Student…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Academic Support Services, Community Colleges, Graduation Rate
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