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Lori M. Smith – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this study is to compare the immediate college enrollment of students who participated in the community college's dual credit program in high school with students who did not participate in the dual credit program. Data from a local community college's dual credit program is analyzed to understand the effects of participation,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, High School Students, Dual Enrollment, College Enrollment
Kenneth D. Hale – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Throughout the United States, dual enrollment programs enable high school students to earn college credit by completing college classes while in high school. In 2015, the State of Ohio expanded grade-level eligibility to participate in the state's dual enrollment program, College Credit Plus, to seventh- and eighth-grade students. The purpose of…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, Grade 8, College Readiness, Student Attitudes
Katarzyna Hey – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this study was to understand the experiences of Afghan women refugees in community colleges. Using Yosso's (2005) community cultural wealth theory, the study explored Afghan women's motivation for attending college, the experiences that brought them to the college, the challenges they experienced while navigating the institution,…
Descriptors: Refugees, Community College Students, Females, Student Motivation
Jenna Leigh Gannon – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Rural students' college attendance rates continue to lag behind their non-rural counterparts (Ardoin, 2018; Barr, 2018; Byun et al., 2012; Byun et al., 2015; Byun et al., 2017; Friesen & Purc-Stephenson, 2016; Hlinka et al., 2018; Longhurst, 2014; McDonough et al., 2010; Morton et al., 2018; Tieken, 2016). While the body of research…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Rural Population, Cultural Influences, Community Influence
Alison Airhart – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Generation Z, individuals born between 1995 and 2010, is projected to soon be the first minority-majority generation in the United States. This generational cohort is attending colleges now and will continue to enter colleges for the next decade. Within the Generation Z population are a large group of the Latinx students who often struggle to meet…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Hispanic American Students, Age Groups, Minority Group Students
Julio Fregoso – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Enrollment of vertical transfer students across four-year colleges and universities has been increasing over the past decade (Shapiro et al., 2018). From 2012 to 2017, data from the Beginning Postsecondary Students (BPS) survey showed that White students represented the largest group of transfers to four-year colleges and universities. Racial and…
Descriptors: Community College Students, College Transfer Students, Minority Group Students, Race
Elis Lee – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Concern over falling retention rates at community colleges is not new; however, declines in success rates for mature English language learners (ELLs) in credit English as a second language (CESL) programs has become even more pronounced. The purpose of this mixed-method action research was to investigate the impact of a classroom intervention and…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Intervention, Teacher Role, Academic Persistence
Goodson, Drew Michael – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Upward transfer is the process by which students begin their higher education at a Community College or other two-year institution and then transfer to a four-year institution to complete their bachelor degree. Community Colleges enroll 45% of all undergraduates in the United States, or approximately 7.7 million students (AACC, 2015). From their…
Descriptors: College Transfer Students, Universities, Community College Students, Institutional Mission
Pizano, Sandra – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation examined the motivation and source of support for first-generation Latina community college students who aspire to transfer to a four-year institution. The study is informed by Yosso's Community Cultural Wealth model, to explore how participants navigate their school environment and the vertical transfer process through an…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Student Attitudes, Hispanic American Students, College Transfer Students
Peguero Spencer, Carolyn – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the gender inequities of unpaid household and childcare labor, especially for Black and Latina mothers who are also breadwinners. Notwithstanding, higher educational attainment has been found to be an important predictor of earnings and reentry into the labor market although disparities of earnings for women of…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Mothers, One Parent Family, Latin Americans
Eileen M. Steffan – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Recent research based on the Dweck's mindset theory has shown that persons with a growth mindset who believe traits such as intelligence are malleable may put forth more effort and have greater academic success than those with a fixed mindset. However, little research has been conducted on mindsets of college students, many of whom enter…
Descriptors: Remedial Instruction, Two Year College Students, College Preparation, Comparative Analysis
Lauritsen, Jessica – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The widening gap between the demographics of faculty and students in higher education is exemplified by the racial, ethnic, and economic disparities in student achievement outcomes. Expecting students to adapt to an unwritten set of rules to successfully navigate higher education is not the solution. Understanding the strengths of students is…
Descriptors: Cultural Capital, College Faculty, College Students, Teacher Student Relationship
Patricia Benavides-Dominguez – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Student enrollment at community colleges within the U.S. has remained flat or decreased for over a decade (AACC, 2019). Before COVID-19, community colleges had been experiencing a steady decline in enrollment for approximately ten years (Irwin et al., 2021). The purpose was to determine whether demographic, environmental, and academic variables…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Enrollment Management, Strategic Planning, School Holding Power
Hunt, Lori Odette – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The goal of this narrative research is to contribute to the body of literature regarding African American males in higher education. This research challenges the deficit majoritarian narrative that historically has perpetuated a negative image of the contributions African American males bring to education. As a conceptual framework, Critical Race…
Descriptors: African American Students, Males, Critical Theory, Race
Melanie Nunes – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This qualitative case study explored working class individuals' perceptions of social mobility in a changing the community. The explored community was traditionally a working class community. It was near a metropolitan area that was growing more prosperous. Many residents commuted to the metropolitan area and the community started turning into a…
Descriptors: Working Class, Social Mobility, Middle Class, Social Class
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