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Download full textTracy Demchuk; Elizabeth A. Rainey – Texas Education Review, 2024
This study illuminates the rich and unique experiences of alumni who successfully completed a Doctor of Education (Ed.D.). During two open-ended interview sessions, eight participants revealed the barriers they encountered and successfully navigated to complete their doctoral programs. Some findings align with previously known barriers from extant…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, Doctoral Programs, College Graduates, Student Experience
Cyrette Saunier; Susan Scrivener; Austin Slaughter; Noor Amanullah; Sukanya Barman; Cynthia Miller; Colleen Sommo; Erick Alonzo, Contributor; Osvaldo Avila, Contributor; Katie Beal, Contributor; Parker Cellura, Contributor; Ben Cohen, Contributor; Stanley Dai, Contributor; Hannah Dalporto, Contributor; Claudia Escobar, Contributor; Colin Hill, Contributor; Marco Lepe, Contributor; Tiffany Morton, Contributor; Rebekah O’Donoghue, Contributor; Vivianna Plancarte, Contributor; Alyssa Ratledge, Contributor; Elena Serna-Wallender, Contributor; Andrea Vasquez, Contributor; Rae Walker, Contributor; Michelle Ware, Contributor; Kayla Warner, Contributor; Melissa Wavelet, Contributor; Michael Weiss, Contributor; Diane Wren, Contributor – MDRC, 2025
Community colleges and broad-access universities (those with minimally selective admissions policies) provide an opportunity for students across the United States to attain postsecondary degrees and achieve economic mobility. However, graduation rates from such colleges are often low and there are many obstacles that can be difficult to…
Descriptors: Intervention, Academic Persistence, Program Development, Costs
Direct linkBrooke Moreland – ProQuest LLC, 2022
With the ongoing demographic shifts in the United States, there continues to be an increase of students from low-income households seeking further education (Castleman & Goodman, 2018, p. 20; Fry & Cilluffo, 2019, para. 3). One in three college students in the United States is considered low-income and has Pell Grant eligibility (Lumina…
Descriptors: Low Income Students, College Students, Academic Persistence, Graduation Rate
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, 2025
The General Appropriations Act, Senate Bill 1, Article III, Special Provisions, Section 45, 89th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, for the 2026-27 biennium directs the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB or Coordinating Board) to submit an annual report that presents the goals and practices of Texas public general academic…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, State Legislation, Higher Education, Universities
Laura E. Chisholm – ProQuest LLC, 2022
With the large discrepancy between the undergraduate graduation rates of Hispanic students and students from other racial and ethnic backgrounds, it is both an equity issue and an economic imperative that higher education institutions focus on retaining Hispanic students. This qualitative phenomenological study seeks to understand the barriers and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Hispanic American Students, School Holding Power, Academic Persistence
Carlson, Erika R.; Craigo, Leslie; Hoontis, Peter P.; Jaffe, Elisabeth; McGee, Lynn; Sayegh, James – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2021
The gaps in graduation and retention rates between ethnic and gender groups continue to be a foremost area of focus at Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC), The City University of New York (CUNY). Equity and inclusion is also a critical concern as it relates to faculty and staff. At BMCC, a college-wide initiative, Designing for Success,…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Graduation Rate, Academic Persistence, Racial Differences
Dana Gullo – Journal of Effective Teaching in Higher Education, 2022
This study examined the factors that contributed to students with disabilities' positive and challenging experiences transitioning to remote learning in the spring 2020 semester due to the COVID-19 pandemic at a small, two-year community college located in the Midwestern United States. The study administered a confidential survey to students with…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, COVID-19, Pandemics, Online Courses
Mellor, Lynn; Stoker, Ginger; Muhisani, Helen – American Institutes for Research, 2017
In June 2013, the 83rd Texas Legislature passed House Bill (HB) 5, which established a new high school program--the Foundation High School Program. The new high school graduation program was required for all entering Grade 9 students in all Texas public school districts in 2014-15. The Foundation High School Program was designed to give students…
Descriptors: State Legislation, Graduation Requirements, State Policy, Educational Policy
Gill, Patrick W.; Harrison, Laura M. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2018
This article considers student affairs practice within the Completion Agenda by studying community college student affairs educators' beliefs about their work related to the value others attribute to it. The Completion Agenda's goals are largely economic, and community colleges have been asked to focus on speed rather than the quality of the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Student Personnel Services, Student Personnel Workers
Bambhrolia, Bhavesh; Phelan, Steven E. – Strategic Enrollment Management Quarterly, 2017
The current study uses a sample of community colleges to explore the specific organizational practices that mediate the link between entrepreneurial orientation and performance. The study focuses on a set of practices known as strategic enrollment management and finds that a college's entrepreneurial orientation predicts its enrollment management…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Entrepreneurship, Enrollment Management, Student Recruitment
Hofer, Andrea-Rosalinde – OECD Publishing, 2022
This country note presents the results of an analysis of Slovenia undertaken within the Labour Market Relevance and Outcomes of Higher Education Partnership Initiative project. The project was implemented by the OECD with the support of the European Commission with the aim of helping policy makers and higher education institutions enhance the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Labor Market, Outcomes of Education, Higher Education
Sweeder, Ryan D.; Kursav, Merve N.; Cass, Samantha M. F.; Matz, Rebecca L. – Learning Communities: Research & Practice, 2019
As a residential college within Michigan State University that focuses on STEM fields, Lyman Briggs College developed a STEM learning community to support students with low mathematics placement test scores, the Instilling Quantitative and Integrative Reasoning program (INQUIRE). INQUIRE serves some of those students considered historically…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Communities of Practice, College Mathematics, Student Placement
Stemmer, John K.; Mahan, David M. – College & Research Libraries, 2016
This study connects library user surveys, a common library assessment technique, to institutional data to demonstrate the value an academic library brings to student learning and student outcomes. Using regression techniques, the study identifies multiple significant correlations, both positive and negative, between student use of the library and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Value Judgment, Library Research, Regression (Statistics)
Jorgensen, Mary; Budd, Jillian; Fichten, Catherine S.; Nguyen, Mai N.; Havel, Alice – International Journal of Higher Education, 2018
This study's goal was to compare aspects related to academic persistence of two groups of college students with non-visible disabilities: 110 Canadian two and four-year college students--55 with mental health related disabilities and 55 with Specific Learning Disorder (LD). Results show that students with mental health related disabilities were…
Descriptors: College Students, Learning Disabilities, Academic Persistence, Mental Health
Chown, Nick; Baker-Rogers, Joanna; Hughes, Liz; Cossburn, Kleio Nicola; Byrne, Pam – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2018
In the UK autism is classed as a disability under the Disability Discrimination Act 2005. Under the Special Educational Needs and Disability Act 2001, higher education institutions in the UK are legally required to make reasonable adjustments for students with disabilities who are placed at a substantial disadvantage in comparison to students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Autism, Higher Education, At Risk Students
