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Wright, Claudia Rodriguez – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this research was to explore the challenges of access for first-generation Hispanic college students in a postsecondary institution on the southwest Texas-Mexico border. According to the U.S. Census (2010) between 2000 and 2010, over a ten-year span, Hispanics increased by 41.8% representing 37.6% of the population in Texas. Yet,…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Access to Education, Higher Education, First Generation College Students
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Garcia, Juliet V.; McCauley, Angela K. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2011
In the May/June issue of "Change", US Undersecretary of Education Martha J. Kanter described President Barack Obama's plan for recapturing the position of the best-educated country in the world by 2020. She spelled out the formula for meeting the President's ambitious goal: increasing postsecondary access, improving the quality of a…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Presidents, Goal Orientation, Articulation (Education)
Russell, Malik – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2010
When Morgan State University began offering its community college leadership doctoral program online this fall, it joined a crowded field of institutions offering terminal degrees to future leaders of two-year institutions. Given its record of success in graduating minority leaders, the online expansion of Morgan State's Community College…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Doctoral Programs, Community Colleges, Instructional Leadership
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Reyes, Augustina – Journal of Education Finance, 2006
The purpose of compensatory education is grounded in the history and practice of addressing the effects of poverty on teaching and learning. The intended purpose of compensatory education was to provide additional investment in human capital for low-income students to compensate for the higher investments in human capital afforded to more…
Descriptors: State Programs, Compensatory Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Finance