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Sylvia Louise Quinton – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Legislation and litigation to end desegregation in higher education and improve college choice to HBCUs abound while academic programs continue to impact college choice. The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine the influence of Maryland's dual system of public higher education on college choice, specifically through community college…
Descriptors: College Choice, Community Colleges, Transfer Students, Black Colleges
Brittany Sanner – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Women continue to be underrepresented within the STEM field. This qualitative, narrative, research student explores the expectations and experiences of women enrolled in a STEM program during their second year. Focusing on understanding their relationships with academic advising, faculty, and peers of all genders. Semi-structured interviews were…
Descriptors: Females, Womens Education, STEM Education, STEM Careers
Bloomfield, Amber; Rose, Bess A.; Preston, Alison M.; Henneberger, Angela K. – Association for Institutional Research, 2020
Brain drain--the movement of high school and college graduates out of state for employment--is a concern for state policymakers. This study focuses on brain drain of students who graduate from high school in Maryland. Using data from the Maryland Longitudinal Data System and applying propensity score matching to control for differences between the…
Descriptors: Brain Drain, Migration Patterns, Relocation, Student Mobility
Hall, Stephanie; Curtis, Ramond; Wofford, Carrie – Century Foundation, 2020
State policy leaders have an opportunity to take leadership in protecting students--and especially student veterans--from being targeted by predatory colleges. Given failings by the federal government to police for-profit colleges and to ensure basic rights for students to attend college without being defrauded, it now falls to the states to step…
Descriptors: Proprietary Schools, State Policy, Veterans, Deception
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Bista, Krishna; Gaulee, Uttam – Journal of International Students, 2017
This section shares recent dissertations and theses with the "Journal of International Students" readers. There were about 139 graduate dissertations and theses related to the issues and challenges of international students in 2016. The complete versions of these selected dissertations are available in the ProQuest, Michigan-based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Foreign Students, Content Analysis
Viadero, Debra – Education Week, 2009
An important new book on improving the stagnant graduation rates of the nation's public colleges and universities suggests that one reason so many academically talented students leave college without a diploma may be that they enroll in schools for which they are overqualified. Authors William G. Bowen, Matthew M. Chingos, and Michael S. McPherson…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Graduation Rate, Talent, Qualifications
McKeown, Karen D. – Heritage Foundation, 2012
With the tuition cost of traditional colleges and universities soaring and education technology advancing, online courses and degree programs are becoming more common. Some critics argue that an online degree cannot provide all the important features of a traditional college education, from extracurricular activities to new professional networks,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Web Based Instruction, Electronic Learning, Online Courses
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Perna, Laura W.; Steele, Patricia; Woda, Susan; Hibbert, Taifa – Review of Higher Education, 2005
This study uses descriptive analyses of data from multiple sources to examine changes during the 1990s in the racial/ethnic stratification of college access and choice in Maryland and to explore state public policies that may have influenced changes in the demand for and supply of higher education for students of different racial/ethnic groups…
Descriptors: Public Policy, Social Stratification, Race, Ethnic Groups
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Pitre, Paul E. – College Student Journal, 2006
This study examined African American and White ninth grade students' aspirations for college attendance, utilizing the predisposition stage of Hossler and Gallegher's (1987) model of college choice as a conceptual framework. This study also introduced a measure of student perceptions of how well high school was preparing them for college. Findings…
Descriptors: Grade 9, College Attendance, White Students, African American Students
Maryland State Board for Higher Education, Annapolis. – 1983
Goals of student financial aid programs in Maryland as well as student financial needs are discussed, based on the work of the Financial Aid Task Force of the Maryland State Board for Higher Education. Task Force recommendations are also provided. Four goals for student financial aid programs are discussed: to insure access for qualified entering…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Career Choice, College Attendance, College Choice
Howard Community Coll., Columbia, MD. Office of Planning and Evaluation. – 1998
This data report includes trend tables from three sources of data regarding where Howard County (Maryland) citizens and recent high school graduates attend college. These trend tables are described and documented with minimal analysis and are intended to serve as a central data source for further development of charts, presentations, and analyses…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, College Choice, College Freshmen, Community Colleges
Maryland State Board for Higher Education, Annapolis. – 1977
A summary and analysis of data are presented regarding the tendency of Maryland high school seniors to attend institutions of higher education in other states. Out-of-state attendance is addressed from three perspectives. First, a summary is given, on a county-by-county basis, of the percentages of college-bound high school seniors who intend to…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, College Choice, Enrollment Trends, Geographic Distribution
Maryland State Board for Higher Education, Annapolis. – 1982
The college plans of 184 Maryland high school seniors who qualified as National Merit or National Achievement semifinalists were surveyed. Findings include the following: 58 percent of the semifinalists selected a private college and 18 percent chose a public college outside Maryland; 16 percent planned to attend Maryland public institutions, and…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, College Bound Students, College Choice, Enrollment Influences
Maryland State Board for Higher Education, Annapolis. – 1985
The college plans of 167 Maryland high school seniors who qualified as National Merit or National Achievement semifinalists were surveyed. Findings include the following: of the semifinalists choosing out-of-state colleges, 58 percent selected private and about 22 percent selected public institutions; slightly less than 10 percent planned to…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, College Bound Students, College Choice, Enrollment Influences
Keller, Michael J.; McKeown, Mary P. – 1984
Factors that 1983 National Merit and National Achievement Semifinalists in Maryland felt influenced their college choice were studied. The 143 survey respondents were asked to indicate how important 22 factors were in the selection of a college. The factors covered items dealing with the characteristics of the college, efforts by the institution…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, College Choice, Colleges, Decision Making
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