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Institutional Characteristics That Lead to Increased Student Success Points for Community Colleges in Texas
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Hanes, Carol Moore – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Over 40% of undergraduates in the United States attend a community college; however, fewer than 50% complete a degree or certificate within 6 years. As a result, national and state leaders have endorsed completion agenda initiatives, including performance-based funding (PBF). Texas implemented a form of PBF for the 2014-2015 Academic Year (AY)…
Descriptors: Institutional Characteristics, Academic Achievement, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students
Institutional Debt: An Analysis of Student Institutional Debt at a Midwestern Multi-Campus University between 2011 and 2014
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Olafsdottir, Kristin – ProQuest LLC, 2017
For the institution and its regional campuses under review, the amount of outstanding student liabilities (i.e., monies owed by the student to the institution for educational-related expenditures not satisfied by the end of the term) grew at an alarming rate between 2000 and 2014, with some of the institution's regional campuses experiencing over…
Descriptors: Multiple Regression Analysis, Institutional Characteristics, Debt (Financial), Universities
Predictors of College Retention and Performance between Regular and Special Admissions
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Kim, Johyun – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2015
This predictive correlational research study examined the effect of cognitive, demographic, and socioeconomic variables as predictors of regular and special admission students' first-year GPA and retention among a sample of 7,045 students. Findings indicated high school GPA and ACT scores were the two most effective predictors of regular and…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, College Admission, Admission Criteria, Correlation