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Jeff Strohl; Catherine Morris; Ban Cheah – Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, 2024
Is law school worth it? A Juris Doctor (JD) offers high median earnings and a substantial earnings boost relative to a bachelor's degree in the humanities or social sciences--two of the more common fields of study that lawyers pursue as undergraduate students. However, graduates of most law schools carry substantial student loan debt, which dims…
Descriptors: Law Schools, Outcomes of Education, Wages, Student Loan Programs
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Jaysveree M. Louw – Journal of Education and Learning, 2024
South African society is currently experiencing a breakdown of morals, which is negatively impacting not only communities but also teaching and learning in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). There appears to be a widespread lack of respect for authority, accountability, and good manners among students, who often display rudeness, laziness,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethics, Colleges, Accountability
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A. W. Logue; Yoshiko Oka; David Wutchiett; Kerstin Gentsch; Stephanie Abbeyquaye – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2024
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, Undergraduate Students, College Transfer Students, Disproportionate Representation
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Gulfiya Kuchumova; Aliya Kuzhabekova; Ainur Almukhambetova; Aigul Nurpeissova – Journal of Career Development, 2024
Women's persistence in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) has been widely researched in educational settings, whereas less is known about their STEM persistence after graduation. Drawing on social cognitive career theory and in-depth semi-structured interviews with twenty women graduates majoring in STEM fields, this article…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, STEM Careers, College Graduates
Santiago, D.; Labandera, E.; Nour, S. R. – Excelencia in Education, 2023
For the United States to regain the top ranking in the world for college degree attainment, Latinos will need to earn 6.2 million degrees by 2030. To reach the Latino degree attainment goal by 2030, the United States can close the degree completion gap by accelerating Latino completion while increasing for all students and scale up programs and…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, College Students, Educational Attainment, Achievement Gap
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Baker, Rachel; Friedmann, Elizabeth; Kurlaender, Michal – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2023
The transfer between two-year and four-year colleges is a critical path to baccalaureate attainment. Yet students face a number of barriers in transfer pathways, including a lack of coherent coordination and articulation between their community colleges and four-year institutions, resulting in excess units and increased time to degree. In this…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Colleges, Transfer Programs, College Transfer Students
Stephanie Ye'Cal Jones – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this quasi-mixed methods study was to explore how African American males' psychosocial factors impacted their motivation to pursue a postsecondary education and if differences existed between the demographic variables and external psychosocial factors of African American males who pursued a postsecondary education and those who did…
Descriptors: African Americans, Males, High School Graduates, Urban Schools
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Brink, Sophia; Rossouw, Mareli – Perspectives in Education, 2021
Stellenbosch University students who graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce in Management Accounting or a Bachelor of Commerce in Financial Accounting may convert to a Bachelor of Accounting by completing a conversion year. The purpose of the conversion year is to meet the Bachelor of Accounting Honours admission requirements, which puts students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Business Administration Education, Accounting, Undergraduate Students
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Ali, Naina Hassan; Hussain, Nasreen – Bulletin of Education and Research, 2021
Today, we are living in an era of violence and conflicts and many people have forgotten their values and norms that are essential for living peacefully in societies. Peace education is the only way to overcome these problems because it helps to enrich both social as well as cultural values of an individual, and a society as a whole. In order, for…
Descriptors: Peace, Conflict Resolution, Bachelors Degrees, Undergraduate Students
Case, Anne; Deaton, Angus – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2021
It is now established that mortality and excess mortality from COVID-19 differed across racial and ethnic groups in 2020. Less is known about educational differences in mortality during the pandemic. We examine mortality rates by BA status within sex, age, and race/ethnic groups comparing 2020 with 2019. Mortality rates have increasingly differed…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Mortality Rate, Racial Differences
Denise Hain – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Self-directed learning readiness is the level of ability and willingness to manage one's own learning. Research has been conducted on the self-directed learning readiness of both student nurses and professional nurses. However, research has not expanded to focus on the self-directed learning readiness of new graduate Registered Nurses entering the…
Descriptors: Learning Readiness, Nurses, Independent Study, Nursing Education
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Card, David; Solis, Alex – Education Finance and Policy, 2022
Governments around the world use grant and loan programs to ease the financial constraints that contribute to socioeconomic gaps in college completion. A growing body of research assesses the impact of grants; less is known about how loan programs affect persistence and degree completion. We use detailed administrative data from Chile to provide…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Academic Persistence, Educational Attainment, Bachelors Degrees
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Pierce, Dennis – Community College Journal, 2022
When students apply to a four-year college or university directly from high school, they know they want to earn at least a bachelor's degree. Not all students who enroll in community colleges have the same clarity about their future. This lack of clarity about their educational goals is one of many hurdles that community colleges face in helping…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, College Credits, Academic Aspiration
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Ison, Matthew P. – Community College Review, 2022
Objective: Dual enrollment has become a significant portion of community college enrollment throughout the country. Some scholars have argued that dual enrollment implementation can be used as a viable policy lever to achieve the certificate and associate degree obtainment outcomes identified in "Reclaiming the American Dream," a…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, Community Colleges, Educational Finance, Performance
Konstantopoulos, Maria – ProQuest LLC, 2022
STEM education has created successful educational outcomes and job opportunities in the United States. Despite the benefits to STEM education, Latinx students have a low STEM degree completion and are considered underrepresented. As a result, institutions are focusing on providing equal opportunities and increasing retention rates to minorities.…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, College Students, College Graduates, Academic Degrees
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