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Direct linkSarah Rose Fitzgerald; Suenita Berube; Zhehan Jiang; Cai Ting – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2025
This study seeks to test for relationships between use of library study rooms, materials, and instruction with student success as measured by retention to the second year, graduation within four years and grades. A cohort of 4,605 first time undergraduate students were considered. Findings show that students who had checked out materials, had…
Descriptors: Users (Information), First Generation College Students, Undergraduate Students, Academic Libraries
Download full textChristine Harrington – Journal of Postsecondary Student Success, 2025
I conducted a narrative literature review on first-year seminars to provide practitioners and researchers with a current, comprehensive review of the research investigating the effectiveness of this widely used, high-impact practice so that they could use this information to improve the course at their institution. I searched for peer-reviewed…
Descriptors: Correlation, First Year Seminars, Academic Achievement, Educational Benefits
Sodip Roy; Santosh Kumar Behera – Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education, 2025
This study highlighted how teachers and students perceive the effects of the influx of Rohingya refugees on the teaching-learning environment of colleges for higher education in Cox's Bazar district of Bangladesh. It revealed the issues of admission, the academic environment of the colleges, the attendance and performance of the students,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Refugees
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
Rita Ramirez-Levine; Donna Rennar-Potacco; Venkat Sharma; Peter Zhiqiang Chen – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2025
This 4-year longitudinal study identified the impact of a multifaceted mentoring and tutoring program on the retention and graduation rates of a diverse body of undergraduate college students enrolled in high-risk science courses. Findings revealed that the program was successful in increasing the retention and graduation rates of students who…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, STEM Education, Mentors, Tutoring
Afet Dundar – Institute for Women's Policy Research, 2025
Student parents--college students with dependent children--are highly motivated to succeed in college. They pursue degrees not only to achieve economic mobility for themselves but also to secure a better future for their children. Despite their high aspirations, they encounter significant barriers that contribute to frequent stop-outs--withdrawing…
Descriptors: College Students, Parents, Barriers, Student Needs
Siyuan Luo – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2025
This study addresses an underexplored aspect of diversity at four-year research universities: the impact of international students on their domestic peers. I explore the peer effects of international students, assessing how their presence influences domestic students' academic outcomes. Using the classroom setting as a natural experimental…
Descriptors: Peer Influence, Foreign Students, College Students, Academic Achievement
Mary Ellen Dello Stritto; Dane Skinner; Naomi R. Aguiar; Greta R. Underhill – Journal of Student Financial Aid, 2025
A wealth of evidence indicates that financial aid is positively associated with retention and graduation rates among college students attending in-person courses. However, limited research exists on the relation between financial aid, retention, and graduation rates among undergraduate students earning online degrees. The purpose of this study was…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, School Holding Power, Academic Persistence, Graduation Rate
Hsin-Ta Andre Tsai; Jose Eos Trinidad – Educational Policy, 2026
College policies may support intentional cross-cultural interactions among peers. This study examines the impact of having an international roommate on the college outcomes of domestic U.S. students. Using institutional data on more than 6,600 U.S. students from a selective liberal arts college that serves low-income individuals, our analysis…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Students, Peer Relationship, Low Income Students
William R. Pratt; Robert Greve; Michael Williams; Suye Wang; Evan Shough – International Journal for Business Education, 2025
The purpose of this study is to measure the appropriateness of the existing admissions requirements as related to the likelihood of graduation. We employ a five-year sample of students admitted into the graduate program and selected a cutoff date to allow sufficient time for most of each cohort to complete their studies. Following the general…
Descriptors: College Admission, Admission Criteria, Graduation Rate, Graduate Students
Margarita Otero-Díaz; Brandilynn Villarreal; Rafael Cuevas-Uribe; Jose Marin Jarrin; Maria I. Iturbide – Association of Mexican American Educators Journal, 2025
Universities continue to see equity gaps in retention and graduation rates for Latinx students. To enhance Latinx student success, a team of Latinx faculty at a HSI developed innovative programming for educators centered on creating culturally sustaining educational spaces for Latinx students. Creando Conciencia is an ESCALA Educational Services,…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, College Students, Academic Persistence, Graduation Rate
Vincent Rossmeier; Kady Rost, Contributor – Cowen Institute, 2025
The State of Public Education in New Orleans (SPENO) report has evolved since its initial publication by the Cowen Institute in 2007. Originally, SPENO documented the sweeping changes to New Orleans' public education system following Hurricane Katrina, particularly the shift to a charter school dominated landscape. It also emphasized comparisons…
Descriptors: Public Education, Public Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Postsecondary Education
North Carolina Community College System, 2025
The Performance Measures for Student Success Report is the North Carolina Community College System's major accountability document. This annual performance report is based on data compiled during the previous year and serves to inform colleges and the public on the performance of North Carolina's 58 community colleges. In 2010, a review process…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community College Students, Academic Achievement, Performance
Ginny Jones Boss; Sohyeon Bae – Journal of College Student Development, 2025
The purpose of this institutional ethnography was to uncover the ruling relations shaping student success efforts at large research universities. Using this critical qualitative approach, we examined the tensions between university leaders' efforts to enhance student success and the persistent disparities in retention, progression, and graduation…
Descriptors: Academic Support Services, Research Universities, Justice, Academic Achievement
Christopher Cleveland; Ethan Scherer – Educational Researcher, 2025
Education leaders need valid metrics to predict students' long-term success. We use a unique data set with cognitive skills, self-regulation, behavior, course performance, and test scores for eighth-grade students from a Northeast school district. We link these data to students' high school outcomes, college enrollment, persistence, and on-time…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 8, Student Surveys, Self Evaluation (Individuals)
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