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Download full textMariana Barragan Torres; Meg Bates – Illinois Workforce and Education Research Collaborative, Discovery Partners Institute, 2024
In Spring 2022, the Illinois Workforce and Education Research Collaborative (IWERC) conducted a statewide survey of high school seniors on their college decision-making. A report on the decision-making processes of 4-year college-goers was published previously, illustrating those students' focus on cost, location, and academic reputation in…
Descriptors: College Choice, Two Year Colleges, High School Seniors, College Bound Students
Call, Richard W. – 1974
To determine whether the scholastic averages of resident students at York College, Pennsylvania are significantly different from those of commuting students, 200 resident students were compared with 200 commuting students. The groups were randomly selected and matched in terms of sex, college class, marital status, and intelligence. Scholastic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Community Colleges, Commuting Students
Foster, Margaret E.; And Others – 1975
The following questions are investigated: Are there identifiable dimensions along which resident and commuter students systematically differ? If there are differences, will the commuting student appear to be educationally, socially, and attitudinally disadvantaged as suggested by several studies? Can subgroups of commuters be defined with…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Commuting Students, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education
Hoelcle, Larene Nichols – 1975
Those who design educational policy, as well as those who plan to go to college, need to know what societal benefits derive from higher education, for whom the college experience is effective, and what aspects of the experience are valuable to what students. To investigate such concerns, a study was initiated in 1964: (1) to describe to faculty,…
Descriptors: Commuting Students, Degrees (Academic), Educational Benefits, Educational Experience
Hoelcle, Larene – 1977
This report is one of a series reporting data from an 11-year longitudinal study of two random samples of 100 students each, selected from the 1966 and 1967 entering freshman classes at the State University of New York at Buffalo. The study spans 10 years for each group. Responses from 60 of the 100 students in the 1966 sample and 54 of the 1967…
Descriptors: Career Opportunities, College Freshmen, College Graduates, Commuting Students
Froomkin, Joseph
Relatively little attention has been given to the importance of student earnings in the total financing of postsecondary education. The present study deals with this important question. It attempts to answer these questions: (1) How much are students earning in the aggregate? How much of these earnings are increasing resources to finance…
Descriptors: Commuting Students, Family Characteristics, Family Income, Financial Needs
