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Conzelmann, Johnathan G.; Lacy, T. Austin; Smith, Nichole D. – Education Finance and Policy, 2019
Students increasingly borrow money to attend postsecondary education. Yet, little attention in the literature has been paid to the repayment of student loans, aside from failure indicators like default. This study examines a nationally representative sample of bachelor's degree recipients and the time it takes to reach different repayment…
Descriptors: Loan Repayment, Student Loan Programs, College Graduates, Federal Aid
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Douglass, Anne L. – SAGE Open, 2019
Professional standards increasingly call for early childhood educators to hold a bachelor's degree as one measure of educator quality. This has prompted many educators to return to college, creating both a need and an opportunity to better understand the factors that support educators to complete their degree and apply what they learn to their…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Faculty Development, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers
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Beadlescomb, Teresa L. – Journal of Social Work Education, 2019
Students of color remain underrepresented in social work education programs. According to the Council on Social Work Education (2016), only 37.4% of the 19,596 BSW degrees awarded during the 2014-2015 academic year were awarded to students from historically underrepresented groups. Through the lens of empowerment theory, this article presents a…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, Social Work, Academic Persistence, Disproportionate Representation
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Luckman, Michael; Harvey, Andrew – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2019
Student attrition is an area of constant concern for higher education managers and policymakers alike, yet little is known of the outcomes of those who depart higher education prematurely. We examine the educational and financial outcomes of students who start, but do not complete, a Bachelor-level course using data from the Australian Bureau of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dropouts, College Students, Outcomes of Education
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Taylor, Jason L.; Giani, Matt – Review of Higher Education, 2019
The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of receiving an associate's degree via reverse credit transfer on retention and bachelor's degree attainment for students in Hawaii and Minnesota who transferred from a community college to a university before earning an associate's degree. Results showed mostly positive evidence with some…
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, College Transfer Students, Transfer Policy, Bachelors Degrees
Ross, Kyle Warren – ProQuest LLC, 2019
In response to the Affordable Care Act of 2010 and the changing health care needs of the 21st century, the Institute of Medicine recommended that 80% of the registered nursing (RN) workforce should have their baccalaureate degree or higher by the year 2020. The College of Nursing at Washington State University (WSU) offers an accredited, online…
Descriptors: Capacity Building, Adult Learning, Nursing Students, Student Attrition
Sauda, Valerie C. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Nursing educators are being challenged to provide curriculum that meets the changing healthcare environment and demand for creative, innovative nurses to assist in transforming healthcare into the future (Benner, Sutphen, Leonard, & Day, 2010; Institute Of Medicine, 2011). The liberal education provided within a baccalaureate of science in…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, Bachelors Degrees, Natural Sciences, Physical Sciences
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Degotardi, Sheila; Han, Feifei; Hu, Jiangbo – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2022
This study compares the mental-state talk of infant educators in Australia and China in order to determine the nuanced differences in the ways that they use this talk with the infants in their room. Participants are 44 native English-speaking Australian educators from centres in Sydney, Australia and 30 native Chinese-speaking infant educators…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Infants, Caregiver Child Relationship, Teacher Student Relationship
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Perkins, Wil – Strategic Enrollment Management Quarterly, 2022
This study probed the predictive effects of accelerated college credits over and above the predictive effects of FAFSA EFC index number, sex, and first-generation status on baccalaureate outcomes on first-time college students. A hierarchical multiple regression on 2,817 students who graduated from a private university in central Arkansas was…
Descriptors: College Credits, Predictor Variables, High School Students, Academic Achievement
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Sousa, Maria José; Costa, Joana Martinho – Education Sciences, 2022
The increase in student engagement in the learning process has driven educators to use more dynamic pedagogical methodologies. Several studies have shown evidence of increased interest in learning when real-world problems are integrated into the learning environment. This paper presents the competencies developed by higher education students…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Competence, Problem Based Learning, Higher Education
Georgette T. Perez – ProQuest LLC, 2022
A review of the literature revealed the need to further explore continuing-generation college students attending community colleges. This case study sought to understand the choice process of continuing-generation, direct-entry college students who enrolled in Miami Dade College (MDC), a baccalaureate community college. This research was planned…
Descriptors: Community College Students, College Choice, Costs, Paying for College
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A. W. Logue; Yoshiko Oka; David Wutchiett; Kerstin Gentsch; Stephanie Abbeyquaye – Grantee Submission, 2022
Only 11% of community college (associate's-degree) students transfer vertically and obtain a bachelor's degree within six years, despite over 80% originally intending to do so. These leaks in the transfer pipeline disproportionately affect students from underrepresented groups, who are more likely to attend community colleges and to leak out of…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Transfer Students, Disproportionate Representation, Minority Group Students
Taylor K. Odle; Lauren C. Russell – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2022
Reverse transfer associate degrees are credentials retroactively awarded to current bachelor's degree seekers that combine current four-year credits with credits previously earned at a community college. Providing students with an associate degree may not only increase motivation and persistence "en route" to completing a bachelor's but…
Descriptors: College Transfer Students, Associate Degrees, Labor Market, Data
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Capik, Davina; Shupp, Matthew – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2023
There is limited research on the experiences of first-generation students who have completed their second year and enrolled for a third year in order to continue their studies even though this population of students are the most likely to drop out of college in their second year. The purpose of this qualitative study was to understand how current…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Rural Schools, Undergraduate Students, Academic Persistence
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Brake, Nicholas – Educational Planning, 2023
This research examines the dual credit and early college program options for school districts planning high school and college collaborations. It utilizes a quasi-experimental design from existing data at a community college that has a well-established dual credit and early college program that offers the students the option of Pell in high school…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, Acceleration (Education), College Preparation, School Districts
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