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Download full textCataldi, Emily Forrest; Bennett, Christopher T.; Chen, Xianglei – National Center for Education Statistics, 2018
This Statistics in Brief focuses on students whose parents have not attended college and examines these students' high school success and postsecondary enrollment, persistence and degree completion once they enrolled in college, and graduate school enrollment and employment outcomes after they attained a bachelor's degree. Their outcomes are…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Access to Education, Prior Learning, Academic Persistence
Chen, Xianglei; Elliott, Barbara G.; Kinney, Satkartar K.; Cooney, Darryl; Pretlow, Joshua; Bryan, Michael; Wu, Joanna; Ramirez, Nestor Alexis; Campbell, Taylor – National Center for Education Statistics, 2019
This First Look report presents selected findings from the 2012/17 Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study (BPS:12/17), a nationally representative survey of undergraduates who entered postsecondary education for the first time in the 2011-12 academic year. BPS:12/17 covers the experiences of these first-time beginning postsecondary…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, School Holding Power, Educational Attainment, College Freshmen
James Madison Univ., Harrisonburg, VA. – 1998
The purpose of this study was to analyze the academic performance of transfers from Virginia community colleges to James Madison University (JMU). In fall 1996, 231 students transferred to JMU from in-state community colleges. The major feeder community colleges were Northern Virginia, Blue Ridge, Lord Fairfax, and Piedmont Virginia. The average…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Transfer Students, Community Colleges, Courses
Canadian Council on Learning, 2007
In 2006, the Canadian Council on Learning produced the first national overview of post-secondary education in Canada. The report, "Canadian Post-secondary Education: A Positive Record--An Uncertain Future," identified eight goals and objectives derived from the strategic plans for post-secondary education (PSE) that had been developed by…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Higher Education, Prior Learning, Quality Control
Nevada System of Higher Education, 2008
This report focuses on distance education within the Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE) for the 2007-08 academic year and provides documentation of the substantial growth of distance education within all colleges and universities. Distance education is a field of continuous improvement and change, and NSHE institutions are constantly…
Descriptors: Technical Support, Nontraditional Students, Higher Education, State Colleges
