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Freeman, Eric – Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 2017
This study examines the relationship between academic undermatch theory and the college-going decisions, experiences, and aspirations of first-generation, rural Hispanic community college students in the new destination meatpacking town of Winstead, Kansas. Ethnographic data from rural high school guidance counselors, community college faculty,…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Two Year College Students, College Attendance, Decision Making
Ocampo, Roxanne – ProQuest LLC, 2017
"Undermatching" refers to college ready students who select and enroll in colleges with selectivity levels significantly lower than their academic profile, resulting in attending a non-competitive college, a two-year college, or foregoing applying to college altogether. The current research trend examining the topic of Undermatching…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Selective Admission, Low Income, First Generation College Students
Nagaoka, Jenny; Seeskin, Alex; Coca, Vanessa M. – University of Chicago Consortium on School Research, 2017
This report is an annual look at Chicago Public Schools (CPS) students' likelihood of obtaining a college degree within 10 years of beginning high school finds that 18 percent of 2016 ninth-graders are projected to earn a bachelor's degree within six years of high school graduation, a number that has held steady since 2015. The report also finds…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Public Schools, Urban Schools, Probability
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Harden, Fiona; Davis, Gabrielle; Mengersen, Kerrie – Australian Universities' Review, 2014
Many interacting factors contribute to a student's choice of a university. This study takes a systems perspective of the choice and develops a Bayesian Network to represent and quantify these factors and their interactions. The systems model is illustrated through a small study of traditional school leavers in Australia, and highlights…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Universities, Student Attitudes
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Ma, Yingyi; Savas, Gokhan – Review of Higher Education, 2014
The persisting gender pay gap favoring men among college graduates is a puzzle given women's remarkable success in postsecondary education. This article examines income disparities among recent college graduates by intersecting gender and social class and evaluating the relative importance of fields of study and institutional selectivity.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Gender Differences, Salary Wage Differentials, College Graduates
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Bielby, Rob; Posselt, Julie Renee; Jaquette, Ozan; Bastedo, Michael N. – Research in Higher Education, 2014
The emerging female advantage in education has received considerable attention in the popular media and recent research. We examine a persistent exception to this trend: women's underrepresentation in America's most competitive colleges and universities. Using nationally generalizable data spanning four decades, we evaluate evidence for…
Descriptors: Females, Disproportionate Representation, Selective Admission, Gender Differences
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Gurbuz, Fatih – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2014
The aim of the study is to reveal the students' views who are studying in different departments of distant education programs provided by Anadolu University in Turkey. Qualitative research method was used in the study and purposeful sampling was followed. The research was conducted with 10 students who were working in different jobs and taking…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Distance Education, College Students
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Hazelkorn, Ellen – European Journal of Education, 2014
Ten years after the first global rankings appeared, it is clear that they have had an extraordinary impact on higher education. While there are fundamental questions about whether rankings measure either quality or what's meaningful, they have succeeded in exposing higher education to international comparison. More so, because of the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Comparative Analysis, Competition, Global Approach
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Bock, Dora E.; Poole, Sonja Martin; Joseph, Mathew – Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, 2014
This study focuses on segmentation feasibility within the private college/university market. There is considerable overlap for private and public college/university students with respect to their consideration criteria; however, previous research suggests that there are some criteria that appear to be differentially important based on the type of…
Descriptors: College Choice, Student Recruitment, Marketing, Consumer Economics
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Nienhusser, H. Kenny; Vega, Blanca E.; Carquin, Mariella Cristina Saavedra – Teachers College Record, 2016
Background/Context: Although millions of undocumented students are enrolled in and guaranteed free public K-12 education, their postsecondary education opportunities are stifled. Some of the barriers encountered by undocumented students include discriminatory public policies, limited availability of information and insensitive college choice…
Descriptors: Undocumented Immigrants, Postsecondary Education, Access to Education, Aggression
Brian Holzman – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Ensuring smooth transitions to college may be difficult for the children of immigrants since their families are likely unfamiliar with the U.S. system of higher education, which is horizontally stratified and requires a number of steps before admission. Bridging social science literature on immigrant assimilation, cultural, social, and human…
Descriptors: High School Students, Grade 11, Parent Background, Immigrants
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Maramba, Dina C.; Palmer, Robert T.; Yull, Denise; Ozuna, Taryn – Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2015
Although research has shown that more Asian American and Latino students are choosing to attend historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), no research has offered insight into what motivates students from these demographics to enroll in these institutions. Given this, the authors explored the college choice process for Asian American…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Asian American Students, Hispanic American Students, College Choice
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Mwangi, Chrystal A. George – Review of Higher Education, 2015
Using meta-synthesis, this study analyzes higher education literature to provide a comprehensive understanding of the role of nonparent family and community (NPFC) members such as siblings, extended family, fictive kin, and peers in college access and choice. Findings revealed the diverse familial and community networks of today's college going…
Descriptors: Family Role, Community Role, College Choice, Access to Education
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Tavares, Orlanda; Cardoso, Sónia – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2013
As part of a progressive change occurring in the way public sector beneficiaries are conceived, higher education students started to be more and more perceived as clients or consumers. This implies assuming them as rational and conscious actors aware of what to expect from higher education attendance and of its returns. Framed by the metaphor of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, College Choice, Enrollment
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Stinnett, Terry A.; Bui, Levita; Capaccioli, Kristen – Psychology in the Schools, 2013
There continues to be a critical shortage of school psychologist practitioners and academicians. Undergraduate students in psychology, education, and other majors (N = 674) from a large comprehensive university in the southwest completed an examiner-made web-based questionnaire designed to assess their attitudes and preferences for choosing…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, School Psychology, Graduate Study, Questionnaires
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