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Chester Polson; Emily Weisburst – Texas Education Research Center, 2024
Each year as tuition costs increase, more students rely on financial aid to attend institutions of higher education. Financial aid packages, which are created to encourage individual investments in education, consist of a variety of types of funding assistance and aid packages, and are highly tailored to individual students. In general, financial…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Paying for College, Student Employment, Work Study Programs
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Venner, Mary Ann; Washburn, Jenn – Journal of Access Services, 2021
The role of the student worker is expanding in academic libraries. Their unique perspectives add valuable insights to the design and delivery of library services, project development, outreach activities, and operational planning. Student-workers gain internal and external benefits from working in peer-to-peer learning environments which also…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Academic Libraries, Student Employment, College Students
Jessica L. Pace – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Low degree completion rates are a critical problem at rural community colleges. In 2023, only 36% of students who enrolled at a community college in 2017 had earned a credential in the past six years (National Center for Education Statistics, 2023a). Academic advising is critical to help students navigate the confusing pathways of higher…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Community College Students, Self Determination, Case Studies
Cornett, Allyson; Webster, Jeff – Trellis Company, 2020
In January 2017, Trellis launched the Financial Security Study (FSS) to shed light on a broad set of questions related to students' basic needs and academic experiences. Working with 11 institutions in Texas and Florida from late January to October of 2017, researchers interviewed 72 students every 30 days or so to discuss their recent experiences…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Needs, Hunger, Housing
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Mamiya, Blain; Powell, Cynthia B.; Shelton, G. Robert; Dubrovskiy, Anton; Villalta-Cerdas, Adrian; Broadway, Susan; Weber, Rebecca; Mason, Diana – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2022
This article looks at the effects of environmental factors such as classification, residence location, and employment status of Hispanic students who unsuccessfully completed first-semester general chemistry (Chem I) at a Hispanic-Serving or emerging Hispanic-Serving Institution. Students' automaticity skills in arithmetic and quantitative…
Descriptors: Environmental Influences, At Risk Students, Hispanic American Students, Chemistry
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Karam, Rita T.; Goldman, Charles A.; Rico, Monica – RAND Corporation, 2022
Community colleges play a key role in driving talent development in the United States, producing workers with the kinds of training that employers need while enhancing economic mobility for students. There has been a push among policymakers at the federal and state levels to hold community colleges accountable for the employment outcomes of their…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Education Work Relationship, Two Year College Students, Student Employment
Katheryn Elaine Paynter – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Despite there being numerous studies on leadership, persistence, and sense of belonging, there are few studies that examine these constructs for student employees who work in student unions. The number of students employed, on or off campus, while working on a degree is increasing (Watanabe, 2005). One of the places on campus where students can…
Descriptors: Student Unions, Student Employment, College Students, Student School Relationship
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Whatley, Melissa; Fischer, Heidi – Journal of International Students, 2022
This study's purpose is to explore the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on international students who were studying at U.S. community colleges at the onset of this public health crisis. While previous work has explored the impact of the pandemic on international students generally, we argue that community college international students deserve…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Foreign Students, Two Year College Students
Webster, Jeff; Cornett, Allyson; Fletcher, Carla – Trellis Company, 2020
In January 2017, Trellis launched the Financial Security Study (FSS) to shed light on a broad set of questions related to students' basic needs and academic experiences. Working with 11 institutions in Texas and Florida from late January to October of 2017, researchers interviewed 72 students every 30 days or so to discuss their recent experiences…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Needs, Eating Habits, Educational Finance
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Blankenship, Dianna; Jones, Irma S. – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2021
The year 2020 will forever be known as the year of the COVID-19 pandemic which has affected the entire population in one way or another. What began in January 2020 still has the world population firmly in its grip a year later. The students' responses, in their own words, to changes in living, daily `routines, and health fears can be seen in the…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Mental Health, Undergraduate Students
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Blankenship, Dianna; Jones, Irma S. – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has produced many changes in the lives of our students and families. In this article, the responses of students in criminal justice classes at a Hispanic serving institution in south Texas were collected and synthesized. The 252 responses were divided into seven frequently observed and repeated themes: jobs and job related,…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Mental Health, Student Attitudes
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Ramos, Jorje; Rodin, Jason; Preuss, Michael; Sosa, Eric; Doresett, Christine; Burleson, Chenoa – International Journal on Social and Education Sciences, 2021
College students at 14 Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) in New Mexico and Texas were surveyed about their experiences in and perceptions of higher education. Three primary foci were students' employment status, work commitments, and means of financing college. Most of the informants reported working while in college and, similar to previously…
Descriptors: Paying for College, Hispanic American Students, College Students, Nontraditional Students
Fletcher, Carla; Cornett, Allyson; Webster, Jeff – Trellis Company, 2022
The State of Student Aid and Higher Education in Texas (SOSA) annual report from Trellis Research provides information helpful in informing policy and programs for higher education student financial aid. The report serves as a reference for colleges, universities, and policymakers, and provides a comparison of Texas state and federal student aid…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Higher Education, Educational Policy, Paying for College
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Custer, Bradley D. – Journal of College Access, 2018
Student affairs professionals are concerned about the access and success of diverse groups of students in U.S. higher education, but systematic barriers continue to confront one understudied population of college students. Justice-involved people--those who have experienced the criminal justice system--face unique challenges on our campuses but…
Descriptors: Barriers, College Students, Delinquency, Crime
Denning, Jeffrey T. – W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2017
Higher education has experienced many changes since the 1970s, including an increase in the price of college, an increase in student employment during college, a decrease in college completion rates, and an increase in time to degree. This paper ties these trends together by causally linking changes in financial aid with time to degree and student…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Financial Aid, Correlation, Time to Degree
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