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Torri Draganov; JoHyun Kim; Seung Won Yoon – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2025
With the need to increase Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) graduates, higher education institutions need to identify and improve ways to increase underrepresented STEM student retention rates. Cypress College in Southern California implemented a program called STEM[superscript 2] (Strengthen Transfer Education and…
Descriptors: School Holding Power, Disproportionate Representation, STEM Education, Community Colleges
John Zilvinskis – Association for Institutional Research, 2024
The purpose of this study is to demonstrate how triangulating responses from the Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE) with information from the federal Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) exposes data incongruency, specifically when considering the population of students with disabilities at 2-year…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Two Year College Students, Two Year Colleges, Gender Differences
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John Fink; Taylor Myers; Daniel Sparks; Shanna Smith Jaggars – Research in Higher Education, 2024
Using administrative data from nearly 270,000 transfer-intending students who began at 70 community colleges across three state systems, this paper seeks to identify a set of metrics that will be useful to community college leaders as they formatively assess their colleges' efforts to improve STEM transfer outcomes. We find that a relatively…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Community Colleges, College Transfer Students, Transfer Programs