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Stops, Starts, and Detours: Transfer Students' College Choice Process
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Tobolowsky, Barbara; Bers, Trudy – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2019
With the number of transfer students increasing and graduation still an elusive goal, the researchers conducted four focus groups and four individual interviews with transfer students attending universities in the Chicago and Dallas-Fort Worth area to better understand and explore the factors that influenced their college choice decisions at their…
Descriptors: College Transfer Students, Student Attitudes, College Choice, Decision Making
Study of Enhanced College Advising in Upward Bound: Impacts on Steps toward College. Study Snapshot. NCEE 2019-4002
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Martinez, Alina; Linkow, Tamara; Miller, Hannah; Parsad, Amanda – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2018
"Find the Fit" advising increased the number and selectivity of colleges applied to by disadvantaged students in a federal college access program. "Find the Fit" includes customized information about college going and costs, text messaging of key application and financial aid deadlines, and related advisor training. These…
Descriptors: Low Income Students, College Choice, Program Effectiveness, Selective Admission
Ensuring Equitable Access for First-Generation Students
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Neill, Kristina; Nisco, Kerry Francesca; Park, Myung; Sacco, Janie, II; Stiner, Dana; Walker, James – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This report provides an analysis of barriers experienced by first-generation students attempting to enroll in a two-year college. This multi-strand, mixed methods action research used both quantitative correlation and qualitative semi-structured interviews to explore the interaction between first-generation students and the two-year college. The…
Descriptors: Equal Education, First Generation College Students, Two Year Colleges, Student Attitudes
Ensuring Equitable Access for First-Generation Students
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Neill, Kristina; Nisco, Kerry Francesca; Park, Myung; Sacco, Janie, II; Stiner, Dana; Walker, James – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This report provides an analysis of barriers experienced by first-generation students attempting to enroll in a two-year college. This multi-strand, mixed methods action research used both quantitative correlation and qualitative semi-structured interviews to explore the interaction between first-generation students and the two-year college. The…
Descriptors: Equal Education, First Generation College Students, Two Year Colleges, Student Attitudes
Ensuring Equitable Access for First-Generation Students
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Neill, Kristina; Nisco, Kerry Francesca; Park, Myung; Sacco, Janie, II; Stiner, Dana; Walker, James – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This report provides an analysis of barriers experienced by first-generation students attempting to enroll in a two-year college. This multi-strand, mixed methods action research used both quantitative correlation and qualitative semi-structured interviews to explore the interaction between first-generation students and the two-year college. The…
Descriptors: Equal Education, First Generation College Students, Two Year Colleges, Student Attitudes
Ensuring Equitable Access for First-Generation Students
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Neill, Kristina; Nisco, Kerry Francesca; Park, Myung; Sacco, Janie, II; Stiner, Dana; Walker, James – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This report provides an analysis of barriers experienced by first-generation students attempting to enroll in a two-year college. This multi-strand, mixed methods action research used both quantitative correlation and qualitative semi-structured interviews to explore the interaction between first-generation students and the two-year college. The…
Descriptors: Equal Education, First Generation College Students, Two Year Colleges, Student Attitudes
Ensuring Equitable Access for First-Generation Students
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Neill, Kristina; Nisco, Kerry Francesca; Park, Myung; Sacco, Janie, II; Stiner, Dana; Walker, James – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This report provides an analysis of barriers experienced by first-generation students attempting to enroll in a two-year college. This multi-strand, mixed methods action research used both quantitative correlation and qualitative semi-structured interviews to explore the interaction between first-generation students and the two-year college. The…
Descriptors: Equal Education, First Generation College Students, Two Year Colleges, Student Attitudes
Ensuring Equitable Access for First-Generation Students
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Neill, Kristina; Nisco, Kerry Francesca; Park, Myung; Sacco, Janie, II; Stiner, Dana; Walker, James – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This report provides an analysis of barriers experienced by first-generation students attempting to enroll in a two-year college. This multi-strand, mixed methods action research used both quantitative correlation and qualitative semi-structured interviews to explore the interaction between first-generation students and the two-year college. The…
Descriptors: Equal Education, First Generation College Students, Two Year Colleges, Student Attitudes
Understanding Hispanic Student Academic Undermatch & College Completion
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Fitch, Sarah; Glaser, Deon; Lopez, Vanessa; Pendleton, Maya; Perrino, John – National College Access Network, 2020
This study aims to better understand the drivers behind college choice and completion rates among Hispanic students. The report was prepared for the nonprofit National College Access Network (NCAN) to help equip their member organizations with information and tools to address academic undermatch and improve postsecondary degree completion rates…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, College Students, College Choice, College Graduates
Study of Enhanced College Advising in Upward Bound: Impacts on Steps toward College. Study Highlights. NCEE 2019-4002
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National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2018
Where students go to college, not just whether they go, may be important to their educational and career success. Yet half of high school students from disadvantaged families "undermatch"--they do not enroll in college at all or not at the most selective college they could. The U.S. Department of Education tested a set of promising,…
Descriptors: Low Income Students, College Choice, Program Effectiveness, Selective Admission
Effects of 8Ps of Services Marketing on Student Selection of Self-Financing Sub-Degree Programmes in Hong Kong
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Lau, Melissa May Yee – International Journal of Educational Management, 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate how the effects of 8Ps of services marketing affect students' selection of self-financing sub-degree programmes in Hong Kong. The factors that affect students' selection of self-financing sub-degree programmes have not been studied in higher education market of Hong Kong. This research is to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Recruitment, College Choice, Community Colleges
Geography of College Opportunity: The Case of Education Deserts
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Hillman, Nicholas W. – American Educational Research Journal, 2016
When students choose where to attend college, they often stay in close proximity to home and work. Much of the college choice literature, however, does not engage with the importance of geography in shaping educational destinations. Using county and commuting zone data from various federal sources, this study finds that the number of local…
Descriptors: College Choice, School Location, Access to Education, Race
Community College Choice and the Role of Undermatching in the Lives of African Americans
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Lowry, Kimberly M. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2017
African American students enroll in 2-year colleges at disproportionately high rates. Little exploration has been conducted on students within this population who could have attended 4-year institutions--a phenomenon known as "undermatching" (Bastedo & Flaster, 2014). This study explores their college choice process, the factors that…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Choice, African American Students, Disproportionate Representation
Examining the Postsecondary Decision-Making Behaviors of Rural Latina/o Youth and Factors That Predict Enrollment
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Ramirez, Nestor Alexis; Meece, Judith L. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
Despite calls by policymakers and educators to increase college access, various student subgroups are often ignored by the research community. For example, the process through which rural Latinx students choose to enroll in college and the types of colleges they matriculate to is understudied in the literature. This study addresses the limitations…
Descriptors: Enrollment Influences, Decision Making, Hispanic American Students, Rural Population
"Échale Ganas": Family Support of Latino/a Community College Students' Transfer to Four-Year Universities
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Jabbar, Huriya; Serrata, Carmen; Epstein, Eliza; Sánchez, Joanna – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2019
Families play a key role in students' school choices throughout their education. While research has explored the familial supports for high-school students transitioning to college for the first time, few scholars have examined how family engagement influences the decisions of current community-college students seeking to transfer to four-year…
Descriptors: College Transfer Students, Hispanic American Students, Family Role, Decision Making
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