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Download full textDougherty, Kevin J. – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2023
This paper examines how the process of making higher education choices in the United States--whether to enter higher education, attend a particular college, or follow a particular path through college--produces and legitimates social inequality. The paper's central thesis is that a societal regime of many choices--while serving individual freedom…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Equal Education, Access to Information, College Choice
North Dakota University System, 2022
This publication was created to help eighth-grade students make a successful transition to high school and begin looking at college and career options. Topics covered in the booklet include exploring career options; choosing the right college for you; the North Dakota University System; making plans to graduate from high school; and attending a…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Middle School Students, High Schools, Career Development
Peer reviewedGesing, Peggy; Glass, Chris – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2018
If we are to understand the future of global higher education, we must begin to study first generation "international" students who embody the future of student global mobility. Traditional paradigms of global student mobility narrowly focus on a small subset of the global student population (de Wit & Jones, 2017). However,…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Student Mobility, First Generation College Students, Access to Education
Direct linkShim, Woo-jeong; Paik, Sunhee – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2014
In South Korea, college-bound students are divided into two tracks: "Munka" (??) and "Yika" (??), and this tracking ("Munka-Yika" tracking; MY tracking) considerably influences students' choice of college majors and future careers. This study aims to examine how MY tracking and other factors influence students'…
Descriptors: Track System (Education), College Attendance, Majors (Students), College Choice
Sandekian, Robyn E.; Weddington, Michael; Birnbaum, Matthew; Keen, J. Katée – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2015
Saudi student enrollment in U.S. colleges and universities has nearly tripled since 2009-2010, in large part due to the King Abdullah Scholarship Program. The representation of Saudi females is also increasing due to the loosening of Saudi Arabia's long-standing restrictions on women's travel and acceptable fields of study and careers. This…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Graduate Students, Doctoral Programs, Females
Maryland State Board for Higher Education, Annapolis. – 1983
Goals of student financial aid programs in Maryland as well as student financial needs are discussed, based on the work of the Financial Aid Task Force of the Maryland State Board for Higher Education. Task Force recommendations are also provided. Four goals for student financial aid programs are discussed: to insure access for qualified entering…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Career Choice, College Attendance, College Choice
Alaska State Commission on Postsecondary Education, Juneau. – 1983
A survey of Alaska high school seniors was conducted in fall 1982 to determine students' opinions of their overall high school experience, their need for additional assistance in selected academic and career planning areas, general demographic information, their plans after high school graduation, and specific postsecondary plans. A total of 3,505…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Career Choice, College Attendance, College Bound Students
PDF pending restorationRussell, C. Neil; And Others – 1978
This survey examines post-secondary plans, aspirations, and characteristics of twelfth grade students in order to develop a medium range enrollment forecasting model of postsecondary education and to develop a data base on high school student aspirations. The survey is the third year of a three-year project undertaken in Manitoba, Canada.…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Career Choice, College Attendance, College Bound Students
