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Doran, Erin; Hengesteg, Paul – Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2020
The Ascender program was created in 2012 by Catch the Next Inc., to address the challenges of increasing community college retention and transfer rates, especially among Latinx students in developmental education. This study looks at the experiences of participants in this program and how it provided validating experiences and fostered their…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Two Year College Students, Community Colleges, Developmental Studies Programs
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Zhang, Yi Leaf; Adamuti-Trache, Maria; Connolly, John – Journal of Higher Education, 2019
Guided by the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) (Fishbein & Ajzen, 2010), our study aims to understand how community college transfer students' STEM degree attainment behavior is shaped by their beliefs, intentions, contextual factors and social-demographic characteristics. This study drew upon data from the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Bachelors Degrees, College Transfer Students, STEM Education