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Direct linkProkop, Pamela Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This research study was a constructivist case study designed to elicit the strategies utilized by African refugees and immigrant students in order to persist in their post-secondary career and technical education programs. The eleven students interviewed were currently enrolled in or recently graduated from a technical college in a suburb of the…
Descriptors: Refugees, Immigrants, Two Year College Students, Vocational Education
Mattison, Tamara D. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
African American females at the community level have low persistence rates and the literature regarding motivation and success strategies for those who persist to graduation is limited. This study was designed to identify the motivation and success strategies used by African American females to graduate from community colleges in Minnesota.…
Descriptors: African American Students, Females, Community Colleges, College Graduates
Peer reviewedAllen, Jeff; Robbins, Steve – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2010
Using longitudinal student data from 15 four-year (n = 3,072) and 13 (n = 788) two-year postsecondary institutions, the authors tested the effects of interest-major congruence, motivation, and 1st-year academic performance on timely degree completion. Findings suggest that interest-major congruence has a direct effect on timely degree completion…
Descriptors: Time to Degree, Congruence (Psychology), College Students, Two Year College Students
