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Direct linkBrown, Tiffany Q. – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this study was to determine if there was a relationship between student behavior (drug, liquor, or weapons violations) and community characteristics (poverty and population) on crime that occurs across 90 four-year historically Black college and university (HBCU) campuses. The gap in the literature shows little to no research to…
Descriptors: Correlation, Student Characteristics, Black Colleges, Community Characteristics
Peer reviewedYiu, Ho Lam – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2021
Social bonds and social organization theory are combined to examine schools' roles in regulating youth gang involvement in the context of community changes--an integrated approach to analyze psychological and sociological influences simultaneously. A subsample (N = 269) from Gottfredson et al.'s (A national study of delinquency prevention in…
Descriptors: School Role, Juvenile Gangs, Community Change, Social Theories
Download full textCrosta, Peter M.; Leinbach, Timothy; Jenkins, Davis – Community College Research Center, Columbia University, 2006
Colleges and state higher education agencies too often lack accurate information about the socioeconomic status (SES) of their students. This paper describes the methodology that Community College Research Center (CCRC) researchers used to estimate the SES of individual students in the Washington State community and technical college system using…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Community Characteristics, Census Figures, Two Year College Students
Yancey, William L.; And Others – 1995
The relationship between the educational character of Philadelphia's public schools (Pennsylvania) and the communities in which they are embedded was studied using information from the 1990 Federal Census and the city's police and health departments. The characteristics of the city's neighborhoods are described, and schools are located in their…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Community Characteristics, Elementary Secondary Education, Metropolitan Areas
Nespoli, Lawrence A.; Radcliffe, Susan K. – 1983
A study was conducted by Howard Community College (HCC) to identify the geographic make-up of HCC credit students and to examine importance factors influencing college attendance. Using census software, data on 93.4% of HCC's 1980 credit students (N=4,013) were compared with 1980 census data on Howard County to determine participation rates for…
Descriptors: Age, Census Figures, College Attendance, Community Characteristics
Heacock, Ronald C.; Jenkins, Jacqueline L. – 1993
A study was conducted of students enrolled in fall 1991 at Howard Community College (HCC) in Columbia, Maryland, by matching student addresses to one of 29 populated census tracks in Howard County. The study sought to understand what part of Howard County students were coming from; whether HCC was serving more remote areas of the county; and…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Community Characteristics, Community Colleges, Community Size
