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Download full textCyrette 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
Peer reviewedVirginia Clinton-Lisell; Alison E. Kelly – International Journal of Technology in Education and Science, 2024
The use of online homework systems that require the purchase of an access code has become widespread. The purpose of this study is to examine student experiences with and perceptions of online homework systems with access codes. Postsecondary students (N = 966) completed a survey about the financial costs, perceptions of quality, engagement with,…
Descriptors: Homework, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Student Experience
What Works Clearinghouse, 2022
"Social Belonging" interventions for college students aim to reduce the impacts of negative stereotypes that may burden students in underrepresented groups and affect their persistence in college. There are different variations of "Social Belonging" interventions but they all have in common a goal of influencing students' sense…
Descriptors: College Students, Academic Achievement, Student School Relationship, Enrollment
What Works Clearinghouse, 2019
"InsideTrack© Coaching" provides proactive, personalized coaching to help students identify and overcome both academic and nonacademic barriers to college persistence and graduation. This What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) report, part of the WWC's Supporting Postsecondary Success topic area, explores the effects of "InsideTrack©…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Intervention, Academic Persistence, Graduation
Direct linkBuzzetto-Hollywood, Nicole; Thomas-Banks, Leesa – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2022
Aim/Purpose: The exorbitant cost of traditional textbooks, which particularly impact low-income, underrepresented minority groups, can be a barrier to student success in higher education that contributes to educational inequities. The aim of this multi-methodology study, conducted at a mid-Atlantic minority-serving institution that serves…
Descriptors: Electronic Books, Educational Technology, Minority Serving Institutions, Administrator Education
What Works Clearinghouse, 2019
This What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) intervention report summarizes the research on InsideTrack Coaching, an intervention designed to provide proactive, personalized coaching to help students identify and overcome both academic and non-academic barriers to college persistence and graduation. InsideTrack partners with universities to deliver its…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Intervention, Academic Persistence, Graduation
What Works Clearinghouse, 2019
Many programs and practices aim to improve college persistence and completion, including "InsideTrack© Coaching." "InsideTrack© Coaching" provides proactive, personalized coaching to help students identify and overcome both academic and non-academic barriers to college persistence and graduation. This What Works Clearinghouse…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Intervention, Academic Persistence, Graduation
Spear, Anne; Chapman, Natasha – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2020
In 2015, a university from Hong Kong led an international service-learning course to Kigali, Rwanda. The focus of the course was to install solar panels in individual households in a community, on the outskirts of Kigali, without access to electricity. The following year, the Hong Kong university partnered with a university in the United States…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, Service Learning
Delisle, Jason D.; Cooper, Preston – American Enterprise Institute, 2020
At the end of 2019, 43 million Americans owed over $1.5 trillion in federal student loans. The rapid increase in these balances over the past decade has led many to deem student debt a "crisis." Now, there is growing support among Democratic policymakers, and even some Republicans, to immediately cancel all or most of the federal…
Descriptors: Student Loan Programs, Debt (Financial), Federal Aid, Paying for College
Alanis, Jennifer; Witkowsky, Patty; Tapia-Fuselier, Nicholas – Journal of College Access, 2021
This study employed phenomenological, case study inquiry to provide an in-depth exploration into eight undocumented students' perceptions of campus supports to answer the research question: What are undocumented students' perceptions of the type, nature, and effectiveness of institutional programs and support services that contribute to their…
Descriptors: Undocumented Immigrants, Student Attitudes, School Role, Program Effectiveness
Anderson, Drew M.; Zaber, Melanie A. – RAND Corporation, 2021
RAND researchers studied more than 450,000 recipients of New Jersey's Tuition Aid Grant (TAG) -- the nation's most generous state-funded grant program per state resident college student -- to explore whether getting larger amounts of grant aid led to higher graduation rates for students at varying income levels and attending two-year, four-year,…
Descriptors: Paying for College, Higher Education, Tuition, Student Financial Aid
Collier, Peter J. – Metropolitan Universities, 2017
Both hierarchical (e.g. student-faculty member or student-adviser) and peer (e.g. student-student) mentoring are recognized as best-practice strategies for promoting college student success. Formal mentoring programs utilizing both approaches can be found on many campuses. In the current institutional context of scarce or stagnant resources,…
Descriptors: Mentors, Peer Teaching, College Students, Success
Zumeta, William; Huntington-Klein, Nick – Council of Independent Colleges, 2020
This analytical report responds to the current policy interest in some states in offering "tuition-free college" to income-eligible students attending certain public colleges and universities. In most cases only public two-year colleges are covered, although New York State's Excelsior Scholarship program also covers public four-year…
Descriptors: State Programs, Access to Education, Student Costs, Student Financial Aid
Huang, Tzu-Yang; Ku, Chih-Hsiung – International Baltic Symposium on Science and Technology Education, 2019
The purpose of the research was to understand the public's social Image of emerging technology-- nanotechnology. Furthermore, the differences among different major students and the decision-making style in "self-evaluation and other-evaluation" were analyzed too. In this research, the social image was defined by three phases,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Attitudes, Majors (Students)
Maria Marta Ferreyra; Carlos Garriga; Juan David Martin-Ocampo; Angelica Maria Sanchez-Diaz – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
Despite the growing popularity of free college proposals, countries with higher college subsidies tend to have higher enrollment rates but not higher graduation rates. To capture this evidence and evaluate potential free college policies, we rely on a dynamic model of college enrollment, performance, and graduation estimated using rich…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Paying for College, Higher Education, College Enrollment
