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Student Transitions Project, 2024
This STP Highlights newsletter focuses on the first transitions of B.C. grade 12 graduates into B.C. public post-secondary education, in addition to total postsecondary enrolment trends in the B.C. public postsecondary system. The Student Transitions Project (STP) has collected more than twenty years of data and is currently assembling a more…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Grade 12, High School Graduates, Postsecondary Education
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Salazar, Rogelio – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2023
As statewide college promise programs continue to develop, emerging equity concerns necessitate interrogating whom programs benefit and how expense funds can be applied. Critical Policy Analysis (CPA) is used in this chapter to understand how statewide promise programs advance or hinder racial equity across eligibility and financial aid support…
Descriptors: College Programs, State Programs, Equal Education, Educational Finance
Indiana Commission for Higher Education, 2022
Indiana's economy needs a skilled talent pipeline, which requires students to pursue and complete degrees or credentials that are affordable, high-quality and relevant to students' future careers and the state's economy. It starts with ensuring students have what they need to get their foot in the door. But right now, fewer students are choosing a…
Descriptors: College Attendance, Graduation Rate, College Graduates, Educational Attainment
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Sikyr, Martin; Basmanova, Nina Ivanovna; Abrashkin, Mikhail – International Journal of Educational Management, 2020
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present the results of the authors' questionnaire survey focused on the comparison of study motivation and job expectations of full-time and part-time students of Russian universities and identify main problems of higher education and graduate employment and suggest their possible solutions.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Motivation, Expectation, Employment
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Waring, Melody K. – Journal of Social Work Education, 2021
The statistics requirement in social work curricula can be seen by students as a detour from the substance of social work. In this note, I describe my experience teaching part-time master's students that statistical thinking is social work: it is an application of the social work code of ethics and a critical tool in practice for making pragmatic…
Descriptors: Social Work, Counselor Training, Masters Programs, Statistics
Townsend, Tawny – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This study addresses the need to better understand community college students' varied enrollment behaviors and experiences in the context of the national college completion agenda, current research, and retention theory. The purpose of this study was to explore the stop-out experiences of part-time and fluidly enrolled, low-income,…
Descriptors: Stopouts, Student Experience, Part Time Students, Low Income Students
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Sarah Bunin Benor; Netta Avineri; Nicki Greninger – Journal of Jewish Education, 2024
This paper investigates how Hebrew is taught and perceived at American part-time Jewish schools, based on surveys of 519 school directors, classroom observations, and 376 surveys of parents, students, teachers, and clergy. We found misalignment of rationales and goals for Hebrew education among these stakeholders. Most schools emphasize Liturgical…
Descriptors: Hebrew, Religious Schools, Judaism, Administrators
California Community Colleges, Chancellor's Office, 2023
Education Code section 76002 requires the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office to prepare and submit a report each year on the number of special part-time and special full-time full-time equivalent students (FTES) claimed by each community college district for the preceding academic year in each of the following class categories: (1)…
Descriptors: Enrollment Trends, Community College Students, Full Time Students, School Districts
Desiree Zuniga – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This qualitative study explored the challenges and experiences of part-time enrolled Latina students moving through a Hispanic-serving California community College (HSCCC). Grounded in Schlossberg's transition theory, the 4 S system, and Latino critical race theory (LatCrit), the study captures the testimonios of 12 testimonialistas to examine…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Females, Part Time Students, Community College Students
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Cronshaw, Sue; Stokes, Peter; McCulloch, Alistair – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2022
This article examines the lived experience of working women with 'children' (defined as under 18 years old) undertaking part-time PhD study. While there is much literature on the isolation of doctoral experience, the issue of, 'mothers' and all this identity may entail, has been overlooked. Drawing on 35 in-depth interviews, the experiences of…
Descriptors: Employed Women, Mothers, Doctoral Students, Communities of Practice
Alisa M. McLendon – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Purpose: The purpose of this journal-ready dissertation was to determine the degree to which the rates of students who did not persist or graduate had changed from the 2014-2015 academic year through the 2019-2020 academic year for first-time in college students by their ethnicity/race (i.e., Hispanic, Black, White, and Asian) and enrollment…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Graduation Rate, Ethnicity, Race
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Kevin J. Dougherty – Teachers College Record, 2024
Background: Choice is a key part of the culture of the United States. Americans believe deeply in the personal and social usefulness of being able to make many choices. Hence, all sorts of efforts have been made to increase students' options, whether by creating many different kinds of schools and colleges, offering a great array of majors and…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Educational Sociology, Selection, Decision Making
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Boumi, Shahab; Vela, Adan – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2019
Simplified categorizations have often led to college students being labeled as full-time or part-time students. However, at many universities student enrollment patterns can be much more complicated, as it is not uncommon for students to alternate between full-time and part-time enrollment each semester based on finances, scheduling, or family…
Descriptors: Markov Processes, Enrollment, College Students, Full Time Students
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Perkins, William; Akpanudo, Usenime Moses – International Journal of Technology in Education and Science, 2022
Our goal in the current study was to identify the degree to which instructional setting (remote versus traditional) predicted students' academic achievement during the COVID-19 pandemic. A matched sample of data from 194 undergraduate students who were continuously enrolled at a private university in the southeastern United States from the spring…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Predictor Variables, Academic Achievement
Rochel Pinder-Cuffie – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Adult learners' retention, persistence, and completion remain a significant challenge for many higher education institutions. The purpose of this action research study was to investigate the factors and improve persistence for part-time older adult learners of color enrolled in a credit-bearing certificate program within a small college in a large…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Adult Learning, Part Time Students, Minority Group Students
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