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Direct linkAnindya Kundu; Marielisbet Perez; Colton Elliott – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2024
Research, as well as mainstream culture, may be too quick to label parenting young people of color (which we define as being under or near the age of 20 when having a child) as delinquent and "at risk". Using qualitative data, we offer anti-deficit framing surrounding students of color with children, highlighting the unique achievements…
Descriptors: Early Parenthood, African American Students, Hispanic American Students, At Risk Students
Santelices, Maria Veronica; Horn, Catherine; Catalán, Ximena; Venegas, Alejandra – Higher Education Policy, 2022
During the last ten years, a group of selective universities in Chile has started admission programs to increase equity in higher education that consider the achievement of students in the context of educational opportunities they have had, thus reducing reliance on the national college entrance exam. This study explores persistence rates of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Program Implementation, Equal Education
Download full textHunt Institute, 2022
Native American students are a demographic group that has consistently been underrepresented in institutions of higher education (IHEs) in the United States. Despite tremendous growth in the enrollment of these students in recent years, they are still underrepresented compared to other subgroups. While other minority students encompass about 29%…
Descriptors: American Indian Students, College Students, Disproportionate Representation, Education Work Relationship
Nguyen, Tuan D.; Kramer, Jenna W.; Evans, Brent J. – Review of Educational Research, 2019
The provision of grant aid is important to students' postsecondary opportunities and success. It is well established that grant aid increases the probability of enrollment in postsecondary education. A slate of studies in recent years has extended this research to examine whether grant aid also has an impact on persistence and degree attainment.…
Descriptors: Grants, Meta Analysis, Student Financial Aid, Educational Opportunities
Al Azmeh, Zeina; Dillabough, Joanne; Fimyar, Olena; McLaughlin, Colleen; Abdullateef, Shaher; Aloklah, Wissam Aldien; Mamo, Adnan Rashid; Abdulhafiz, Abdul Hafiz; Al Abdullah, Samir; Al Husien, Yasser; Al Mohamad Al Ibrahim, Ammar; Al Ibrahim, Ziad; Barmu, Taiseer; Farzat, Abdulnasser; Kadan, Bakry – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2021
This paper examines the relationship between the politics of Higher Education access pertaining to longstanding practices of patrimonial authoritarian politics and the narration of collective trauma. Building on an empirical study of Syrian HE during war, we suggest that a "narrative disjuncture" within HEIs has a damaging impact not…
Descriptors: Trauma, Access to Education, Higher Education, Politics of Education
DiBenedetto, Katelyn; Roberson, Amanda Janice; Collis, Jessica; Sharpe, Rachelle; Couturier, Lara; Moore, Cristen – Institute for Higher Education Policy, 2023
TransferBOOST (Bachelor's Opportunity Options that are Straightforward and Transparent) is a multi-year state-level initiative developed to provide students with affordable, quality, well-supported two- to four-year pathways. On average, 43 percent of credits are lost nationwide through the transfer process. Recognizing that today's students…
Descriptors: College Transfer Students, Community Colleges, Universities, Bachelors Degrees
Santelices, María Verónica; Horn, Catherine; Catalán, Ximena – Studies in Higher Education, 2019
During the last 10 years, a group of selective universities in Chile has started to implement admissions programs that consider the achievement of students in the context of the educational opportunities they have had, thus reducing reliance on the national college entrance exam. This study explores the program theories in a sample of these…
Descriptors: College Admission, Equal Education, Selective Admission, Institutional Characteristics
Ackehurst, Maree; Polvere, Rose-Anne; Windley, Georgina – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2017
Indigenous educational and employment disadvantage is a much researched and discussed subject. The latest Prime Minister's Closing the Gap report (DPM&C 2017) shows that, while the gap is slowly decreasing in regard to participation in tertiary education, reducing employment disparity, particularly in remote areas, lags behind. This is despite…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Vocational Education, Technical Education, Postsecondary Education
Ballerini, Victoria – ProQuest LLC, 2018
It is argued that free-tuition higher education increases opportunity for underrepresented students with positive equity implications. Moreover, access to higher education for free expands existing visions of equal opportunity, as it changes aspirations and behavior. In 2015, Tennessee became the first state in the nation to implement a universal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Tuition, Educational Opportunities
Salinas, Cristobal; Friedel, Janice Nahra – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2016
From their very beginnings, the community colleges have demonstrated a commitment to their founding principles of access, affordability, and quality. However, following February 2009, when President Obama set forth the agenda for U.S. postsecondary education to have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world by 2020, priority shifted…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Systems Approach, Systems Analysis, State Colleges
Barbarin, Oscar A.; Murry, Velma McBride; Tolan, Patrick; Graham, Sandra – Society for Research in Child Development, 2016
Boys and men of color (BMOC) are at significant risks for poor outcomes across multiple domains including education, health, and financial well-being with little promise of improvement in the near future. Out of concern for this situation, President Obama instituted the My Brother's Keeper Initiative (MBKI) to enlist the combined resources of…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, Males, Youth Programs, Barriers
Setzekorn, Kristina, Ed.; Patnayakuni, Nainika, Ed.; Burton, Tina, Ed. – IGI Global, 2020
Education has until recently promoted social mobility, broad economic growth, and democracy. However, modern universities direct policy and resources toward criteria that exacerbate income inequality and reduce social mobility. Online education can make education more socially, geographically, temporally, and financially accessible, impacting the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Online Courses, Distance Education, Educational Technology
Ocasio, Kelly M. – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2014
This article reviews recent literature on how Latinos progress through critical junctures of the teacher pipeline: high school graduation, college access and persistence, obtaining a teaching degree, and securing a job as a classroom teacher. This thorough investigation of the Latino experience through each of these junctures offers a better…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Academic Persistence, Access to Education, High School Graduates
Watson, Jane; Wright, Suzie; Allen, Jeanne Maree; Beswick, Kim; Hay, Ian; Cranston, Neil – Australian Association for Research in Education, 2015
This paper draws from a large longitudinal study into issues related to student retention beyond the compulsory years of schooling and gives voice to a commonly-overlooked set of stakeholders, namely those in the community. Although many studies report on students' and teachers' opinions of the influence of the community on student engagement and…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Foreign Countries, Stakeholders, Community Attitudes
Mayer, Alexander K.; Richburg-Hayes, Lashawn; Diamond, John – MDRC, 2015
Access to college has increased substantially over the last 50 years, but student success--defined as the combination of academic success and degree or certificate completion--has not kept pace. Student success, moreover, generally correlates with students' financial resources: Students from high-income families attend and complete college at…
Descriptors: Innovation, Access to Education, College Preparation, Advisory Committees
