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Direct linkElaine Jessica Castillo Tamargo – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In California, Filipina/x/os continue to be overrepresented in the nursing workforce, with the percentage of nurses identifying as Filipino increasing from 13.4% in 1993 to 20.6% in 2018 (Spetz et al., 2018). While a particular ethnic group being overrepresented in a certain industry is not problematic on its own, certain careers come with greater…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Asian Americans, Colonialism, Social Influences
Peer reviewedAllie White; Hannah Ball; Sara LaBelle – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: Considering that college students experience mental health issues and college counseling centers are overwhelmed, this study identifies instructors as a potential mental health resource for students. This study utilizes the theory of planned behavior to investigate the relationship between students' attitudes, injunctive and descriptive…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Intention, Mental Health
Taylor Danielle Akason; Cindy Miller-Perrin – Journal of College and Character, 2024
This study examined how faith community interaction and faith community harmony relate to both state and trait body dissatisfaction, loneliness, and sociocultural pressures on appearance among college undergraduates. Participants (N = 1519) were college undergraduate students attending a private university in California. Participants included 546…
Descriptors: College Students, Religious Factors, Psychological Patterns, Social Isolation
Cuellar, Marcela G.; Bencomo Garcia, Alicia; Saichaie, Kem – Journal of Higher Education, 2022
For more than a century, scholars and policymakers have commented and debated on the purposes of higher education. These conversations reflect a combination of public and private goals, with an increasing emphasis on social mobility. The perspective of students, especially those currently enrolled and first-generation college goers for whom social…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Role of Education, First Generation College Students, Student Attitudes
Download full textAmy Sprowles; Jessica Smith; Patricia Siering; Steven Margell; Frank Shaughnessy; Alison O'Dowd; Kerri J. Malloy; Matthew P. Hurst; P. Dawn Goley; Lisa Morehead-Hillman; Borbolla Mazzag; Gillian Black; L. Chook Chook Hillman; Dale Oliver; Katlin R. Goldenberg; Angela Rich; Sonja Manor; Matthew D. Johnson; Eileen Cashman – Science Education and Civic Engagement, 2024
Deficits in college degree attainment limit important perspectives and ways of knowing that inspire creativity and innovation. Disproportional outcomes for racially minoritized groups that are historically underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics exacerbate this problem and promote societal inequities, structural…
Descriptors: Curriculum Implementation, Indigenous Knowledge, STEM Education, Cultural Awareness
Mark Hatcher; Jasmine Howard; Jessica Mason; Rachel Blume; Victoria Salinas; Chelsea Hood; Kelle Parsons – American Institutes for Research, 2023
In this report, AIR shares an exploratory analysis of how the past and present experiences of adult learners of color shape their perceptions of college and decisions they make. Existing research highlights some common motivations, strengths, and barriers for adult learners (see, e.g., Patterson, 2018); however, it does not deeply explore the full…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Minority Group Students, College Enrollment, Decision Making
Jacquelyn Chin; Samantha Mattis; Josceline Acosta; Amaranta Ramirez; David Rivera; Adrian Valadez; Kathleen Baca Leanos; Isaiah Jones; Alison Cerezo – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
The coronavirus (COVID-19) global pandemic upended the academic trajectories and opportunities of many community college students in the United States. While four-year universities have seen an uptick in applications in the 2021-2022 academic year, community colleges have experienced a sharp decrease in enrollment, signifying significant…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Student Financial Aid, COVID-19, Pandemics
Boggs, George R., Ed.; Galizio, Lawrence A., Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2021
This is the first comprehensive and contemporary history of the largest and most diverse public system of higher education in the United States. Serving over 2 million students annually--approximately one-quarter of the nation's community college undergraduates--California's 116 community colleges play an indispensable role in career and transfer…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational History, Political Issues, Economic Factors
Elizabeth Mckay Cooke – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This qualitative study assesses the influence of a college-level intervention program on its student participants' self-efficacy. Self-efficacy theory provides an essential foundational lens for this study as it provides the necessary sources to broaden an intervention program's plans from students' individualized experiences. Study participants…
Descriptors: College Students, Self Efficacy, Student Development, Intervention
Isaac, Sophia D. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This qualitative descriptive study aimed to explore how higher education leaders within Educational Opportunity Programs (EOP) and services describe the integration and marginalization of immigrant or refugee students in California Universities. The theoretical foundation utilized in this study was based on Barry's (1997) acculturation theory. The…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Immigrants, Refugees, Student Diversity
Willis, Tasha Y.; Wick, David; Bykowski, Carla; Doran, Joanna K.; Li, Hoi Yi; Tran, Amy – Journal of Social Work Education, 2021
This article reports on professional development of nine U.S. social work students of color who participated in a delegation exploring human trafficking in Thailand through a reverse mission program. Through the use of the 2015 Council on Social Work Education's (CSWE) Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards (EPAS) as a conceptual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Crime, Social Work, Caseworkers
Montero-Hernandez, Virginia; Drouin, Steven; Whitehead, Suzanne – Multicultural Education, 2021
College classroom communication in the United States is linked to critical issues that are constructed in the larger sociopolitical and political background. As social conflicts and the unstable political environment in the U.S. continue to escalate, universities are caught in the midst of agitated public debates where identity politics continue…
Descriptors: College Students, College Faculty, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Discourse Analysis
Kaviani, Christina; Nelson, Annabelle – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2021
This study examined the potential impact of social media including pornography and the online dating tools used by Generation Z college men. Through the narratives provided by young college men on how smartphone use has impacted their sexual attitudes, intimacy skills and sex lives, findings shed new light on sexual socialisation. Data were…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Telecommunications, Sexuality, College Students
Navarro-Cruz, Giselle Emilia; Dávila, Brianne A.; Kouyoumdjian, Claudia – Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 2021
Less than half of adolescent mothers graduate from high school and fewer obtain a post-secondary degree. The purpose of this study is to understand how Latina mothers who experienced childbirth during adolescence transition to parenthood and higher education. We conducted 13 in-depth interviews with Latina mothers enrolled in higher education. We…
Descriptors: Early Parenthood, Adolescents, Pregnancy, Birth
Pavitee Peumsang – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This dissertation study was guided by two research questions: (1) What shapes community college mathematics faculty members' set of racialized ideologies, beliefs, and attitudes that inform their behaviors and teaching practices in the virtual classroom?; and (2) How do the racial and virtual classroom dynamics shape the ways mathematics faculty…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Faculty, Mathematics Teachers, Teacher Background
