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Direct linkBroton, Katharine M. – Community College Review, 2019
Background: Most community college students from low-income families have ambitious educational degree goals, but only a small fraction attains them. For many decades, sociologists have primarily attributed this problem to a cooling out process in which college practitioners diminish students' educational ambitions using academic reorientation…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Community Colleges, Grants, Low Income
Cook, Marjorie Anne Elizabeth – ProQuest LLC, 2010
A substantial amount of research has been conducted on the college choice process of students entering postsecondary education, yet little is known about this process for students transferring from two-year colleges to bachelor degree-granting institutions. The current study examines how and why community college students' perceptions shape their…
Descriptors: Two Year College Students, Community Colleges, Self Concept, Student Attitudes
Speerstra, Mandy; Trechter, David – MINDS@UW, 2010
During Academic Day, September 1, 2009, incoming freshmen and transfer students in the College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences (CAFES) were asked to complete a one-page questionnaire designed to find out: (1) how they learned about UW-River Falls as an option for their tertiary education; (2) what factors most influenced their…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Colleges, Student Surveys, Earth Science
Smeaton, Jane; Wagner, Daniel J. – 1976
In order to determine the barriers to enrollment in Wisconsin vocational and technical institutes, 440 questionnaires were sent to potential students in the 1975-76 school year; 198 questionnaires were returned, over half from students who had applied but did not attend, for a response rate of 45%. Results of the survey indicated that, overall,…
Descriptors: College Attendance, College Choice, Decision Making, Enrollment Influences
Knowles, Eric S. – 1973
Information gathered from various sources was directed toward identifying those areas where programs could be implemented and action taken to increase the enrollment and graduation of students, particularly the disadvantaged. The guiding model emphasized the factors affecting both a person's decision to enter a postsecondary school and his…
Descriptors: American Indians, College Choice, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Characteristics
