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Direct linkKezar, Adrianna J.; Holcombe, Elizabeth M. – Educational Policy, 2020
With emerging evidence about the efficacy of integrated support programs for college students and increasing attention nationally to creating such programs, it is important to understand implementation barriers that might affect program success. This study is one of the first to examine implementation of integrated programs, with a particular…
Descriptors: Integrated Activities, Program Implementation, Disproportionate Representation, STEM Education
Kezar, Adrianna; Holcombe, Elizabeth – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2018
Student success in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) is a major concern in higher education. While overall 6-year graduation rates are around 60% nationally (National Center for Education Statistics, 2016), only about 40% of students who enter college intending to major in a STEM field complete a STEM degree within 6 years. Studies…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, STEM Education, School Holding Power, Sense of Community
Download full textKezar, Adrianna; Holcombe, Elizabeth – Pullias Center for Higher Education, 2017
This report discusses the findings from a three-year study of the California State University STEM Collaboratives project, funded by the Helmsley Charitable Trust. The project selected eight CSU campuses to rethink the ways in which they support first-generation, low-income, and underrepresented minority students in science, technology,…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Academic Achievement, Success, Disproportionate Representation
Johnson, Matt; Sprowles, Amy; Overeem, Katlin; Rich, Angela – Learning Communities: Research & Practice, 2013
A place-based learning community called "Klamath Connection" was designed to improve the academic performance of freshman in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) majors at Humboldt State University, a midsize public institution in a location geographically and culturally unfamiliar to the majority of its students. The…
Descriptors: Place Based Education, College Freshmen, State Universities, Academic Achievement
