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Monique Colclough – Belk Center for Community College Leadership and Research, 2020
HBCUs are known for being enriched cultural institutions, expertly weaving curriculum, belongingness, career access, affordability and social justice. In key quantitative research that explored the income trajectory of HBCU students, it was determined that almost 70% of HBCU students experience upward mobility, resulting in placement in the…
Descriptors: Community College Students, College Transfer Students, Black Colleges, Public Colleges
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Bowling, Jessamyn; Hopper, Lorenzo N.; Catu-Backhaus, Zoe; Williams, Cody; Butler, Karen; Yount, Leigh – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2021
The sexual behaviour of US youth places them at risk of negative outcomes such as sexually transmitted infections and unintended pregnancy. The US Centres for Disease Control recommend a positive and respectful approach to sexuality and relationships to improve these outcomes. Yet, sexuality education across the country, especially in the US…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Barriers, Peer Teaching, Higher Education
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Morgan, Kristin L.; Crenshaw, Jasmine D.; Martin, Marcus L. – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2021
The proportion of underrepresented minority (URM) students graduating with Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) degrees, matriculating to graduate programs, and entering the STEM workforce continues to be significantly low. The Virginia-North Carolina Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (the VA-NC Alliance)…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Student Recruitment, Academic Persistence, Enrichment Activities
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Walker, Kimberly Young; Okpala, Comfort – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2017
This study explored the interconnectedness of the transfer student experience and used it as a foundational framework to inform the administrative leadership on a North Carolina, midsized, historically Black college of the existing transfer students' experiences. This study focused on (a) how transfer students at a midsized historically black…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Transfer Students, Student Experience, Student Attitudes
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Umbach, Paul D.; Tuchmayer, Jeremy B.; Clayton, Ashley B.; Smith, Kathleen N. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2019
This paper investigates community college transfer success by exploring the relationship between individual and institutional-level characteristics at students' two- and four-year institutions. Using statewide administrative data from North Carolina, this study employs a cross-classified multilevel model to investigate the impact that a student's…
Descriptors: College Transfer Students, Student Characteristics, Institutional Characteristics, Community Colleges
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Jayaprakash, Sandeep M.; Moody, Erik W.; Lauría, Eitel J. M.; Regan, James R.; Baron, Joshua D. – Journal of Learning Analytics, 2014
The Open Academic Analytics Initiative (OAAI) is a collaborative, multi-year grant program aimed at researching issues related to the scaling up of learning analytics technologies and solutions across all of higher education. The paper describes the goals and objectives of the OAAI, depicts the process and challenges of collecting, organizing and…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, College Students, Open Source Technology, Data Analysis
Marks, Joseph L.; Diaz, Alicia A. – Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), 2009
The "Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) Fact Book on Higher Education" is one of the nation's most comprehensive collections of comparative data on higher education. For decades, state leaders, policy-makers, researchers and journalists have used the "Fact Book" to find useful data quickly--and to learn more about…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Universities, Technical Institutes, Tuition