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Download full textLawton, Julie; Toner, Mark – Achieving the Dream, 2020
As with other student populations community colleges serve, part-time students often face multiple challenges that present additional barriers to completion, including unfamiliarity with the college experience, parenthood, and food and housing insecurity. Community colleges have historically opened their doors to all those interested in pursuing…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Role, Postsecondary Education, At Risk Students
Shook, Melissa; Webster, Jeff; Fletcher, Carla – TG (Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corporation), 2010
In 2006, TG estimated that 47,000 bachelor's degrees would be lost in Texas due to financial barriers experienced by college-qualified high school graduates from the class of 2004. With more current data, TG now estimates that the number will be 52,800. "Digging Deeper" explores how students who enroll in college continue to experience…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Enrollment, Colleges, Money Management
TG (Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corporation), 2009
In 2006, TG (Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corporation) issued a report entitled "Ready, Willing and Unable: How Financial Barriers Obstruct Bachelor Degree Attainment in Texas." Drawing on a report by the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance, which projected the number of bachelor degrees lost nationally due to financial…
Descriptors: Barriers, Educational Attainment, Bachelors Degrees, Student Costs
