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Paterson, Nicola; Gordon, Garvin – Association for Institutional Research (NJ1), 2010
The Office of Planning and Institutional Research (OPAIR), at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus was asked to undertake an analysis of student throughput rates as part of a University-wide initiative involving the three campuses. Each Campus was provided with a template and guidelines for reporting the data. The exercise was intended…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Undergraduate Students, Graduation Rate, Outcomes of Education
Parker, George Randolph – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study is to describe the perceptions held by selected community leaders about the role of the community college and the community college president in connecting with and serving the needs of the community. These leaders' perceptions and views are compared to the documented missions of the colleges selected for study. Six rural…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Presidents, Community Leaders, Attitudes
Supiano, Beckie – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2009
Among all the uncertainty colleges face in this recession, they are sure of one thing: Families are feeling less than confident about their ability to pay for higher education. In response, colleges are creating more student-aid programs or expanding existing ones. Others are offering students additional counseling or a grace period for paying…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Higher Education, Outcomes of Education, Student Financial Aid
Colburn, Michael; Fox, Daniel E.; Westerfelt, Debra Kay – College and University, 2011
Prospective graduate students select a graduate program as a result of a multifaceted decision-making process. This study examines the selection criteria that part-time MBA students used in selecting a program at a private university. Further, it analyzes the methods by which the students first learned of the MBA program. The authors posed the…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Course Selection (Students), Evaluation Criteria, Performance Factors
Neill, Paul A. – New Directions for Higher Education, 2011
The primary objective of the concierge service at the University of Nevada, Reno is to keep students on track to graduate in four years. The Concierge is charged with helping students enroll in the classes they need, not necessarily want, to graduate. This one charge defines the operational criteria. The service is available to all students,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Academic Support Services, At Risk Students, Educational Strategies
Leyser, Yona; Zeiger, Tali; Romi, Shlomo – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2011
The impact of three variables on the self-efficacy of 992 general and special education preservice teachers was examined. These variables were years of preservice education, experience with children with special educational needs, and training in inclusion or exceptional education. All participants responded to a teacher self-efficacy scale that…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Education Majors, Preservice Teachers, Educational Needs
Poliakoff, Michael; Alacbay, Armand – American Council of Trustees and Alumni, 2012
Echoing the words and thoughts of Thomas Jefferson, California's state constitution embraces the noblest of principles in its vision for public higher education. Over the decades, California public higher education has dominated policy discussions as a model of access and excellence and a powerful engine of economic growth. Indeed, it would be…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Public Education, Access to Education, Paying for College
Miller, Ben – Education Sector, 2010
Since the early 1990s, the federal government has required colleges to track and report graduation rates for all first-time, full-time degree- or certificate-seeking students. The most widely used figure tracks students for 150 percent of the time they expect to take to graduate. For bachelor's degree programs, students are considered graduates if…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Community Colleges, Graduation Rate, Charts
Bowles, Tyler J.; McCoy, Adam C.; Bates, Scott – College Student Journal, 2008
Supplemental Instruction (SI) is a national program designed to aid college student learning. Many researchers have noted that analysis of the impact of the SI program on student achievement is problematic as a result of the inherent self-selection bias. We apply a sufficiently sophisticated statistical technique that controls for the…
Descriptors: Supplementary Education, Academic Support Services, National Programs, Graduation
Visser, M. S.; Luwel, M.; Moed, H. F. – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2007
This paper examines the propensity to attain a Ph.D. degree at the five largest universities in Flanders, the Dutch speaking part of Belgium. It provides insight into the rate at which junior scholars appointed at the universities involved attained their Ph.D.-degree, and the duration of the doctoral training period. Cox's regression model was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Doctoral Degrees, Educational Attainment, Time to Degree
Ehrenberg, Ronald G.; Zuckerman, Harriet; Groen, Jeffrey A.; Brucker, Sharon M. – Princeton University Press, 2009
Despite the worldwide prestige of America's doctoral programs in the humanities, all is not well in this area of higher education and hasn't been for some time. The content of graduate programs has undergone major changes, while high rates of student attrition, long times to degree, and financial burdens prevail. In response, the Andrew W. Mellon…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Humanities, Time to Degree, Student Attrition
Liechty, Janet M.; Liao, Minli; Schull, Christine Pegorraro – Journal of Social Work Education, 2009
Social work doctoral education is essential to the continuation of the profession through its production of educators and researchers. Predicted shortages of educators give urgency to the problems of dissertation delays, lengthy time to completion, and attrition. Using Vygotsky's sociocultural theory of learning, in this article we review the…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Doctoral Dissertations, Social Work, Barriers
Scott, David J. – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2009
New Zealand has one of the lowest reported higher education qualification completion rates in the OECD, significantly below Australia. Why do so many New Zealand students not complete their qualification? This paper looks behind some of the numbers in an attempt to understand better and assess New Zealand's performance compared with Australia and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Qualifications, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries
National Dropout Prevention Center for Students with Disabilities, 2011
This worksheet from the National Dropout Prevention Center for Students with Disabilities (NDPC-SD) is an optional tool to help schools organize multiple years of student and program data for the purpose of identifying school-completion needs that can be addressed through the implementation of research-based interventions. It is designed for use…
Descriptors: Grade Repetition, Dropout Rate, Dropout Prevention, Graduation Rate
Cataldi, Emily Forrest; Green, Caitlin; Henke, Robin; Lew, Terry; Woo, Jennie; Shepherd, Bryan; Siegel, Peter – National Center for Education Statistics, 2011
This "First Look" presents findings from the 2008-09 Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study (B&B:08/09), which describes the enrollment and employment experiences, 1 year after they graduated, of a national sample of college graduates who completed a bachelor's degree in the 2007-08 academic year. The tables in this report…
Descriptors: Bachelors Degrees, Longitudinal Studies, Data Analysis, College Graduates