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Direct linkBlazek, Kristen A. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The choice of college and careers are not simple. The choices students make when selecting a college can affect them for their entire life. Tressie Cottom (2017), in her book, "Lower Ed," describes our educational journey like a stream (Cottom, 2017). We are all traveling down the stream of life, and there are rocks and forks. The…
Descriptors: Females, Womens Education, For Profit Colleges, College Students
Patrick James Radigan – ProQuest LLC, 2022
For-profit colleges have long been a feature of the American higher education landscape and the quality of the education they provide has always been under question. This paper investigates the effects of attending a for-profit college on voting and volunteering as compared to individuals who attended a not-for-profit college or no college at all.…
Descriptors: For Profit Colleges, College Students, Voting, Volunteers
Garcia, Kimberly Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Not all students who enroll in college complete their degree. Students who drop out of college and fail to graduate represent a dilemma for higher education administrators. Determining factors that may lead to attrition has been a topic of discussion amongst educators. The purpose of this study was to determine whether there are any relationships…
Descriptors: Student Attrition, College Students, Predictor Variables, Correlation
Candice Sayre – ProQuest LLC, 2020
School dropout for nontraditional college students continues to increase without fully understanding the students' experiences of making this impactful decision. This study explored those experiences as well as the commonalities among the sample of nontraditional college students who attended for-profit institutions. Utilizing a generic,…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Students, College Students, Dropouts, Decision Making
Alycia Johnson – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Much of the research on for-profit institutions provides quantitative analyses at the institutional level on enrollment, graduation, career placement rates and gainful employment, and student loan default rates. However, limited research examines the lived experiences of Black students who attend for-profit colleges and universities. This study…
Descriptors: College Students, African American Students, For Profit Colleges, Student Experience
Moreno, Scott L. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
With the increase in students attending for profit open-enrollment universities (FPU), there is a need to understand the learning experiences of these students. There is a gap in the research that identifies faculty's teaching and learning experiences in FPUs. The topic of this generic qualitative study was the experiences and perceptions of…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Open Universities, Student Experience, Teacher Attitudes
