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Elias, Nicole M; Marrin, Madeleine – Teaching Public Administration, 2019
Student engagement in institutions of higher education has become a central priority for educators and administrators. What "student engagement" means for a diverse student body is an important question for public institutions with justice-related missions. As social welfare policy shifts to allow more recipients of public assistance…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Welfare Services, Low Income Students, Public Affairs Education
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Shields, Margaret M.; Thomas, Katherine H.; Paschal, Angelia; Tucker, Melanie; Leeper, James; Usdan, Stuart – Journal of Outdoor Recreation, Education, and Leadership, 2017
Biking is a popular recreational activity, and understanding how to promote participation is important to college health and recreation professionals. The purpose of this study was to examine factors contributing to cycling behaviors on one large college campus from an ecological perspective. Students were surveyed at a southeastern university in…
Descriptors: Recreational Activities, Predictor Variables, Student Surveys, Student Attitudes
Grigal, Meg; Hart, Debra; Papay, Clare; Wu, Xiaoying; Lazo, Rebecca; Smith, Frank; Domin, Daria – Institute for Community Inclusion, 2021
Between 2010 and 2020, the Office of Postsecondary Education in the U.S. Department of Education funded 52 model demonstration projects called Transition and Postsecondary Programs for Students with Intellectual Disabilities (TPSIDs). These grantees created or expanded inclusive higher education programs, enrolling 4,279 students with intellectual…
Descriptors: Program Content, Access to Education, Student Needs, Student Characteristics
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Nelson, Danielle; Misra, Kaustav; Sype, Gail E.; Mackie, Wayne – Journal of International Education Research, 2016
A variety of factors influence a student's ability to succeed in college and complete a degree program. Students who live on-campus, at least during their freshman year, have been shown to be more likely to complete their degrees than are students who live off-campus. Students who are commuters may have more demands on their time and may have…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Commuting Students, Geographic Location, Proximity
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Reinholz, Daniel L. – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2017
Being part of a cohesive learning community supports retention and success in early mathematics courses. Yet, large, unwelcoming lectures stand in opposition to this goal, isolating students and pushing them away from STEM. This paper offers a comparative analysis of three efforts to build community amongst students, all situated within a single…
Descriptors: Calculus, Mathematics Instruction, Introductory Courses, Lecture Method
Galanek, Joseph D.; Gierdowski, Dana C.; Brooks, D. Christopher – EDUCAUSE, 2018
For 15 years, the EDUCAUSE Center for Analysis and Research (ECAR) has conducted research on information technology (IT) and higher education's most important end users, undergraduate students. This year's report includes inclusion of the perspectives of students with learning and physical disabilities on how their institutions respond to their…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Information Technology, Computer Uses in Education, Access to Computers
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Hamlin, Daniel – American Educational Research Journal, 2017
Families in deindustrialized cities with high crime rates report prioritizing school safety when opting for charter schools. Yet, very little research has investigated whether charter schools are safer than traditional public schools. This study compares charter and traditional public schools in Detroit, Michigan, on perceived school safety by…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Crime, School Safety, Hypothesis Testing
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Crawford, Emily R.; Valle, Fernando – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2016
School counselors are critical intermediaries in K-12 schools who can help students from undocumented immigrant families persist in school. Yet, a dearth of research exists about their advocacy work, or the range of efforts they make to support unauthorized youth. This paper asks, (1) what challenges do counselors face and strive to overcome to…
Descriptors: Undocumented Immigrants, Academic Persistence, School Districts, School Counselors
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Ward, Stephanie; Bélanger, Mathieu; Donovan, Denise; Caissie, Isabelle; Goguen, Julie; Vanasse, Allain – Journal of School Health, 2015
Background: School environmental characteristics may be associated with youth's participation in different types of physical activities (PAs). This study aimed to identify which school policies and built environmental characteristics were associated with participation in organized, nonorganized, individual, and group-based activities. Methods:…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, School Policy, Physical Activities, Student Participation
Grigal, Meg; Hart, Debra; Papay, Clare; Choiseul-Praslin, Belkis; Lazo, Rebecca – Institute for Community Inclusion, 2022
Think College Reports present descriptive data in narrative and tabular form to provide timely information to researchers, practitioners, and policymakers for review and use. This report provides program- and student-level data reported by TPSIDs (Transition and Postsecondary Programs for Students with Intellectual Disabilities) during the…
Descriptors: Program Content, Access to Education, Student Needs, Student Characteristics
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Addai, Isaac – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
This paper in the field of capacity building and students' affairs used the external survey assessment techniques of the probit model to examine the predicaments of non-resident students of the College of Technology Education, University of Education, Winneba. Considering the very limited residential facilities and the growing demand for tertiary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, College Students, College Housing
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Friess, Wilhelm A. – Higher Education Review, 2017
The explanatory case study presented here analyzes the factors that have contributed to the failure of a start-up engineering program launched at an off-campus site, and aimed at imparting the first two years of the BSc Mechanical, Electrical, Computer and Civil Engineering utilizing an integrated curriculum. Findings indicate the root cause for…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Failure, Case Studies, Integrated Curriculum
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Pokorny, Helen; Holley, Debbie; Kane, Suzanne – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2017
In this study, our cross-case analysis of students' lives challenges the conventional home-university model of transition and highlights the importance of acknowledging the influence of this complex symbiotic relationship for students who attend university and live at home. We argue that as with stay-at-home holidays, or "staycations",…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Freshmen, Commuting Students, Higher Education
Sheren, Deborah L. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Increasing costs and discount rates and decreasing persistence have led to deteriorating net tuition revenue at many colleges and universities. The lack of clarity about the relationship between student persistence and incoming student characteristics was interfering with the development of optimal tuition discounting policy and required research.…
Descriptors: Costs, Academic Persistence, Tuition, Correlation
Grigal, Meg; Hart, Debra; Papay, Clare; Wu, Xiaoying; Lazo, Rebecca; Smith, Frank; Domin, Daria – Institute for Community Inclusion, 2021
Think College Reports present descriptive data in narrative or tabular form to provide timely information to researchers, practitioners, and policymakers for review and use. This report provides an overview of descriptive program and student-level data provided by Transition and Postsecondary Programs for Students with Intellectual Disabilities…
Descriptors: Program Content, Access to Education, Student Needs, Student Characteristics
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