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Rahime-Malik Howard – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The current study examined hindering factors of 2-year community college students' vertical transfer to 4-year colleges. Rational choice theory guided the study and provided the scope of the problem, which is community college students' apprehension about vertically transferring to 4-year colleges. A quantitative Likert-scale survey, which…
Descriptors: Barriers, Community College Students, Undergraduate Students, College Transfer Students
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Daniel A. Collier; Dan Fitzpatrick; Chelsea Brehm; Eric Archer – Journal of Postsecondary Student Success, 2021
This exploratory inferential, single-university study (N=700) joined institutional, external, and survey data to examine how first-year students' food insecurity links to non-cognitive attributes, first-semester performance, and persistence. Regressions indicate LGBTQ, multi-racial, international, transfer, and first-generation students exhibit…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Hunger, College Students, Student Motivation
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Fitzpatrick, Dan; Collier, Daniel A.; Parnther, Ceceilia; Du, Yu; Brehm, Chelsea; Willson-Conrad, Angela; Beach, Andrea; Hearit, Keith – Higher Education Research and Development, 2021
Colleges and universities are paying increasing attention to students' transition into post-secondary education, including the provision of support to freshmen through structured First-Year Experiences (FYEs). Although low- and-moderate-income students are participating in post-secondary education at increased rates, their performance remains…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, First Year Seminars, Mentors, Student Characteristics