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Andrea M. Pritchett – ProQuest LLC, 2024
On December 10, 2015, President Obama signed Every Student Success Act (ESSA), which reauthorized the 50-year-old ESEA commitment to equal opportunity for all students (U. S. Department of Education, n.d.). One of the provisions included all students in America be taught to high academic standards that will prepare them to succeed in college and…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Females, African American Students, Hispanic American Students
Trina Harmon-Wright – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Research has indicated that family social class, college readiness, and college affordability are factors for post-secondary barriers (Freeman, 2005). The term family social class refers to sociocultural aspects, behaviors, knowledge, and lifestyles into which one is socialized by one's family (Bourdieu, 1979). Bordes-Edgar et al. (2011) define…
Descriptors: Barriers, Low Income Students, College Readiness, Paying for College
Taylor, Zachary W.; Pauter, Sarah; Weber Wandel, Karla – Strategic Enrollment Management Quarterly, 2023
Students who leave higher education before earning a credential ("stop outs") often do so for failing to maintain satisfactory academic progress, or SAP. This article details why enrollment managers must work with their financial aid counterparts to smooth students' re-entry to higher education, focusing on SAP alleviation strategies.
Descriptors: Stopouts, College Students, Student Financial Aid, Access to Education
Pei Hu; Christine G. Mokher; Kai Zhao; Toby J. Park-Gaghan; Shouping Hu – SAGE Open, 2023
State policymakers in the United States have in recent years experimented with new initiatives to change the procedures used by public institutions to assess and assign academically underprepared students to non-credit developmental education (or remedial) courses. This study explores whether the most recent developmental education reform in…
Descriptors: State Legislation, Educational Policy, State Policy, Educational Change
William T. Gormley; Sara Amadon; Katherine Magnuson; Amy Claessens; Douglas Hummel-Price – AERA Open, 2023
In this study, we used data from a cohort of 4,033 Tulsa kindergarten students to investigate the relationship between pre-K enrollment and later college enrollment. Specifically, we tested whether participation in the Tulsa Public Schools universal pre-K program and the Tulsa Community Action Project (CAP) Head Start program predicted enrollment…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Access to Education, Public Schools, Kindergarten
Glenn, Lawree – ProQuest LLC, 2023
College acceptance does not always result in college enrollment for students from marginalized backgrounds. Many of these students traveled a bumpy road to twelfth grade from kindergarten, come from low SES backgrounds and may also be first-generation college students. Students from marginalized backgrounds have a higher probability of…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, College Bound Students, Blacks, African American Students
Alyssa Nguyen; Michelle White; Darla Cooper – RP Group, 2023
The California Community Colleges (CCC) Attendance Decisions Survey was designed to understand the factors influencing prospective and previously enrolled community college students' decisions to attend a California community college in fall 2022. This survey was administered in late summer/early fall 2022 and included responses from all 116 CCC…
Descriptors: College Attendance, Community Colleges, Community College Students, Decision Making
Mark Hatcher; Jasmine Howard; Jessica Mason; Rachel Blume; Victoria Salinas; Chelsea Hood; Kelle Parsons – American Institutes for Research, 2023
In this report, AIR shares an exploratory analysis of how the past and present experiences of adult learners of color shape their perceptions of college and decisions they make. Existing research highlights some common motivations, strengths, and barriers for adult learners (see, e.g., Patterson, 2018); however, it does not deeply explore the full…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Minority Group Students, College Enrollment, Decision Making
Copa, Nancy; Campbell, Jim; Roberson, Amanda Janice – Institute for Higher Education Policy, 2022
As support continues to grow across the country and across the political spectrum for the federal student-level data network (SLDN) proposed in the College Transparency Act (CTA), IHEP partnered with AEM Education Services, with input from RTI International, to further build out a roadmap to support the implementation of the SLDN. "Frameworks…
Descriptors: Information Networks, College Students, Data Collection, Data Use
National Student Clearinghouse, 2022
This tenth annual High School Benchmarks Report provides updated data on high school graduates' college access, persistence, and completion outcomes. This report was designed with several features particularly tailored to secondary education practitioners and policymakers. First, results presented in this report update last years' findings on high…
Descriptors: High School Graduates, Access to Education, College Attendance, Academic Persistence
Barrus, Zachary; Campbell, Brett; Stanger, Kenadie – Utah System of Higher Education, 2022
As the COVID-19 pandemic spread to Utah in March 2020, the state's public colleges and universities took steps to mitigate the risk of infection to students and faculty/staff. Utah's degree-granting institutions shifted in-person coursework online in March 2020 for the remainder of the spring 2020 term, with the goal to protect students' health…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Electronic Learning, Technical Education
Noah G. Price – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Over the last decade the Bay Area region has witnessed a lack of diversity in Silicon Valley technology professions, a subject of current political and popular discourse. The California State University (CSU) system provides accessible higher education; the CSU system approach to accessible higher education affirms the distinctness of regions,…
Descriptors: Disproportionate Representation, Minority Group Students, Graduate Students, Females
Sirena Covington – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This correlational quantitative study examined a five-year (2014-2019) trend to analyze whether there is a relationship between the level of state funding and the enrollment and graduation rates of students of color attending public institutions in Illinois. For the purposes of this study, the students of color include the following groups:…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, Public Colleges, Correlation, Trend Analysis
Kurt C. Mayer; Alan L. Morse; Yash Padhye – Sport Management Education Journal, 2024
The current exploratory study determined the prevalence of the sport management academic degree being offered in top-ranked institutions as based on "U.S. News & World Report" rankings. A focus on the differences of bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees being offered, or not offered, was placed on national universities and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Institutional Characteristics, Reputation, Athletics
L. E. C. Delnoij; J. P. W. Janssen; K. J. H. Dirkx; H. Vogten; H. Martens; S. Elston; H. Hermans; R. L. Martens – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2024
Pre-enrolment self-assessments are a promising way to address student commitment and retention in an early stage. Such assessments aim to inform study decisions by evoking reflection and providing advice for further preparation. Though these assessments require a solid validation process, so far the consequential validity aspect tends to be…
Descriptors: College Students, College Bound Students, College Enrollment, Distance Education