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Darris R. Means; Jenay F. E. Willis; Kim Getfield; Devon Golden; Bryson Henriott; Brandon Lee; Alejandra Medina; Hannah Reilley; Lily K. Tunstall; Ying Zhou – Rural Educator, 2024
Since the 2016 U.S. presidential election, increasing attention has been paid to rural communities. For our study, we used a multicase study approach that included five states to study the difference between the rhetoric about the need to focus more attention on rural communities soon after the 2016 election and the practiced reality of state…
Descriptors: State Policy, Access to Education, Success, Rural Areas
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Dafna Gelbgiser; Sigal Alon – Sociology of Education, 2024
Academic mismatch, the incompatibility between applicants'/students' aptitude and their desired/current academic program, is considered a key predictor of degree attainment. Evaluations of this link tend to be cross-sectional, however, focusing on specific stages of the college pipeline and ignoring mismatch at prior or later stages and their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, College Choice, Academic Degrees
Office of English Language Acquisition, US Department of Education, 2024
This Fact Sheet highlights English learner students in secondary schools who are career and technical education participants (received at least one CTE credit in that year) and concentrators (received three credits within a career cluster during high school).
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Vocational Education, Secondary School Students, Student Participation
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Rubin, Paul G.; Ness, Erik C. – Higher Education Policy, 2021
State higher education governing agencies in the United States are uniquely positioned between the state government and public postsecondary sector. However, few studies have considered how this organizational characteristic influences these agencies' role in the policy process. The current study seeks to contribute to this gap in the literature…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Educational Policy, Institutional Characteristics, Higher Education
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Rust, Dylan; Singh, Raghvendra – Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2021
As institutions look to improve student retention through first-year experience (FYE) courses, some have implemented courses targeted specifically to the international population. A quantitative comparison of international students who took an FYE course with international students who did not take an FYE course was completed to analyze the…
Descriptors: First Year Seminars, College Freshmen, Undergraduate Students, Foreign Students
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Torres, David; Crichigno, Jorge; Sanchez, Carmella – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2021
A Monte Carlo algorithm is designed to predict the average time to graduate by enrolling virtual students in a degree plan. The algorithm can be used to improve graduation rates by identifying bottlenecks in a degree plan (e.g., low pass rate courses and prerequisites). Random numbers are used to determine whether students pass or fail classes by…
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Efficiency, Monte Carlo Methods, Time to Degree
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Daddona, Mark F.; Harris, Charlie L.; Mondie-Milner, Celena; Goodson, Jonathon – College and University, 2022
Historically, the most common type of transfer student was described as traditional; they enrolled in a community college, earned an associate's degree, and transitioned to a four-year institution for degree completion. The highest degree of departure from one institution to the next occurs within the second year of enrollment (Hossler, et al.…
Descriptors: College Transfer Students, Student Mobility, Transfer Rates (College), College Credits
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Taggart, Amanda – Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 2022
Postsecondary co-enrollment, or simultaneous enrollment at multiple institutions, is becoming increasingly common among U.S. college students. This descriptive analysis documented the characteristics and co-enrollment patterns of Latinx/a/o students in the Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study (12/17). Findings of the study revealed…
Descriptors: Enrollment, Hispanic American Students, College Students, Longitudinal Studies
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Zhu, Zhengren – Education Finance and Policy, 2022
In the United States, transferring from a two-year program to a four-year program has become an increasingly important route toward a bachelor's degree. However, the pathway has an extremely high attrition rate. Utilizing two recent institutional reforms in the University System of Georgia, I show that allowing community colleges to offer…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Two Year Colleges, College Transfer Students, Bachelors Degrees
Ennis, Tanya Davis – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This research study analyzed the experiences of Black engineering students at a predominantly white institution (PWI) for the purpose of discovering the configurations of conditions that explain these students' decisions to stay or leave their engineering majors at this PWI. This study includes a descriptive analysis of quantitative data related…
Descriptors: Blacks, African American Students, Engineering Education, Majors (Students)
Quintana, Erica; Cook-Davis, Alison – Morrison Institute for Public Policy, 2022
Arizona State University's (ASU) Bridging Success program, launched in 2015, is a campus-based support program for students with a background in foster care, also known as Foster Care Alumni (FCA). The program is housed within ASU's School of Social Work, which is part of the Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions. The program…
Descriptors: Foster Care, Transitional Programs, College Students, Youth
Green, Courtney Susanne – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This correlational study utilized secondary, longitudinal data to examine the extent to which student-influenced and institution-influenced factors predict the academic success and degree completion of engineering transfer students at public four-year institutions in North Carolina. The sample included students who transferred from community…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, College Transfer Students, Academic Persistence, Graduation Rate
Krytus, Kimberly A. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Public health is a profession that focuses on preventing disease, disability and death, and promotes health policies and programs at a population level (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC] Foundation, 2019). The field has experienced a decades-long workforce shortage where on average 250,000 more trained workers are needed in the…
Descriptors: Public Health, Graduate Students, Success, Public Sector
Shadiquah Hordge – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Black male community college students have the lowest retention and completion rates among any racial group (National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, 2017). During this dissertation, I examined the root causes of Black male community college students' low graduation rates through a systematic literature review, and then identified mentoring…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Black Colleges, Mentors, Program Effectiveness
Meghan Gara Alai – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to understand how leaders at two community colleges that participated in Guided Pathways used early momentum metrics (EMMs) to change institutional policies or practices to improve student success and degree completion rates. By focusing on EMMs as short-term indicators, leaders could track…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Leaders, Guided Pathways, Graduation Rate
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