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Alison M. Turner; Jennifer C. Mann – School Community Journal, 2023
The purpose of this study is to explore how one community-based organization supports adolescents through the transition from high school to college, specifically looking at the experiences of three late-arriving refugee-background students who successfully gained access to higher education. Through the critical conceptual framework of community…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Community Organizations, Refugees, Adolescents
Jasmine Lewis – ProQuest LLC, 2022
College access programs provide middle and high school students with essential skills to prepare them for a successful transition to postsecondary education. TRIO Talent Search (TS)and Upward Bound (UB) are federally funded programs established to strengthen the likelihood that students from underserved groups will graduate high school and pursue…
Descriptors: Barriers, Alumni, Post High School Guidance, College Preparation
Vanessa Marie Maldonado – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This intrinsic case study investigated the experiences of select low-income and first-generation students who participated in the Upward Bound program throughout high school to understand how participation influenced enrollment at a postsecondary institution. Two theoretical frameworks guided this research study: Astin's (1984) I-E-O model and…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Low Income Students, First Generation College Students, Academic Aspiration
Luis M. Andrade – Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 2025
The purpose of this exploratory qualitative study was to identify if and how a community college provided services to meet the needs of undocumented students seeking STEM degrees during the pandemic. The study is grounded in the framework of Institutional Undocu-Competence (IU-C) and draws from interviews with 16 students at an urban community…
Descriptors: Community College Students, STEM Education, Undocumented Immigrants, Urban Schools
Charania, Mahnaz R. – Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation, 2021
As they adopt and adapt emerging approaches, K-12 leaders have a tremendous opportunity to activate the latent social capital within families to improve students' experiences and outcomes. Whether they succeed depends on where and how schools activate family networks, and for what purposes. This paper details five emerging opportunities for…
Descriptors: Family Involvement, Educational Innovation, Family School Relationship, Educational Change
Bernard Allen Caldwell – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This qualitative case study identifies the systemic and explicit barriers that impede the progression from high school to college for first-generation college students (FGCS) at a Small Catholic Secondary School in Cincinnati, Ohio. Evidence indicates that FGCS experience more barriers in progressing from high school to college than their non-FGCS…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Post High School Guidance, College Bound Students, High Schools
Stacey Wilson-Forsberg; Oliver Masakure; Rosemary Kimani-Dupuis; Suman Mondal – Canadian Journal of Education, 2024
This qualitative article focuses on the high school experiences and post-secondary education (PSE) plans of 57 youth with refugee backgrounds from the Horn of Africa living in Ontario. The article is guided by two conceptual frameworks. The first is an anti-oppressive approach, which helps us examine the structural barriers at school that prevent,…
Descriptors: Educational Experience, Refugees, Background, High School Students
Jennifer A. Hogg; Ginevra Courtade – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 2024
For students with disabilities in rural locations, there can be unique barriers related to postsecondary transition. Reverse Career Fairs (RCFs), wherein employers take the role of attendees and students with disabilities focus on showcasing their skills and talents, are one way to provide U.S. students with experiences that support evidence-based…
Descriptors: Exhibits, Careers, Rural Areas, Students with Disabilities
Brandon Matthew Isaac – ProQuest LLC, 2022
College preparation resources to support academic and college success have the potential to decrease challenges students often face when preparing for college. TRIO programs, funded by the U.S. Department of Education, were introduced in the 1960s as part of the fight on the war on poverty to make the college experience more accessible to low…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Preparation, Web Sites, Academic Achievement
Laura M. Rodriguez Lopez – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation in practice documents the program evaluation of the Community Scholars (CS) program at the Florida Center for Inclusive Communities (FCIC), a University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD) at the University of South Florida (USF). CS is part of a diversity pipeline program that recruits youth with…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Inclusion, Community Programs, Developmental Disabilities
Juliet McKinnon Maestas – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The low number of California Native American students, both rural and urban, graduating A through G ready prompted this study. Using a qualitative and Indigenous research approach, the research questions that guided this study were: (1) What are the perspectives and beliefs about postsecondary education among a group of Native American students at…
Descriptors: American Indian Students, High School Seniors, Student Attitudes, Postsecondary Education
Gay Patrice Huggins-Dickey – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This qualitative narrative inquiry aimed to learn about the experiences associated with adapting to post-secondary life when students graduate from high school with work-related skills. A narrative inquiry was used to interview graduates who participated in a work-based learning program while attending a public high school in the coastal Northeast…
Descriptors: Career Readiness, High School Students, Work Study Programs, High School Graduates
Vivian Yuen Ting Liu; Alexandra Haralampoudis; Isabel Polon – Research in Higher Education, 2024
College education plays a crucial role in upward social mobility. However, despite applying to and being accepted by colleges, students often fail to matriculate -- a phenomenon known as "summer melt". The summer after high school graduation is a vulnerable period for these students due to limited counseling support from both high…
Descriptors: High School Seniors, Social Mobility, Higher Education, Summer Programs
Meitra Lak Perry – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The following dissertation study will evaluate how, if at all, does participation in the La Comunidad de Latnios (LCL) small group improve the perceptions and high school experiences with regards to post-secondary options for Latino students. Focus groups were evaluated and discussed, and recurring themes were considered to understand how Latino…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, High School Students, Hispanic American Students, Post High School Guidance
Jeffrey S. Smith – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Education improvement has become a national imperative. Low graduation rates, standardized test failures, and overall success rates falling significantly behind in global competition have forced the dialogue towards alternatives to public education (Stewart, 2012). As the United States continues to trail other countries in educational success, it…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Attitudes, College Bound Students, Noncollege Bound Students