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Direct linkMelanie 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
Download full textHolmes, Venita R. – Houston Independent School District, 2020
This study explored postsecondary trends of Houston Independent School District (HISD) high school seniors over the past three years, including students who participated in direct advising sessions through Launch Senior. Three cohorts of students attended HISD schools in ninth through twelfth grades, culminating in either 2017-2018 (Cohort I) or…
Descriptors: College Readiness, High School Seniors, Academic Advising, College Attendance
Grubbs, Samuel Jacob – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The purpose of this dissertation was to investigate some of the contradictory outcomes for community college students. I investigated whether community colleges lower their students' aspirations and make students less likely to be socially involved if they transfer to four-year institutions. Furthermore, I tested whether there were significant…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Access to Education, Educational Opportunities, Barriers
Laurin, Joel – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Immigration status and educational opportunities are at the forefront of the current national conversation regarding "DREAMers": children of immigrants brought to the United States at a young age who lack legal status but are raised and educated in the American system. In 2006, Arizona voters passed Proposition 300, in part prohibiting…
Descriptors: Undocumented Immigrants, Tuition, Academic Aspiration, Dual Enrollment
Lum, Lydia – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2007
This article describes how people with bachelor's and even advanced degrees are using two-year colleges as a form of graduate school. It defies the stereotype of community college as a place of last resort, and counters the norm of the first-time college students earning an associate degree and then transferring to a four-year institution. For the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Graduates, Associate Degrees, Academic Aspiration
Peer reviewedMartinez, Magdalena; Fernandez, Edith – New Directions for Student Services, 2004
Community colleges serve as the point of entry for the majority of Latinos in higher education, offering low-cost, smaller-scale educational opportunities in the communities where students live and providing the preparation for four-year colleges and universities that may have been lacking in their K-12 education. The challenges to community…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Educational Opportunities, Community Colleges, Hispanic American Students
