Caregivers form a key constituency of current, potential, and returning college students, with around one in five undergraduates having legal dependents. Students who take care of children and other family members face greater barriers to education than their peers without caregiving responsibilities, impacting their ability to access and complete…

Student attrition remains a pressing concern in open-access faculties in Moroccan universities. Identifying key factors influencing first-year students' dropout intention is crucial. Grounded in Tinto's (1993) Model of Institutional Departure, this quantitative study surveyed 2,220 first-year students across thirteen faculties in two universities…

Background: Engineering education research frequently examines students' persistence (or intentions to persist) into engineering careers from engineering school. However, the variety of engineering-related occupations has increased substantially in recent years, challenging researchers' abilities to discern what constitutes persistence in…

This study analyses the persistence and true state dependence of overqualification, i.e. a mismatch between workers' qualifications and their jobs' educational requirements. Employing individual-level panel data for Germany, we find that overqualification is highly persistent among university graduates over the first ten years of their career…

This research aims to examine the relationships between personality traits and the grit levels of university students. Participants of the study are 379 students (304 females, 75 males). The age range of the study group is 18-25. Five-Factor Personality Scale, Short Grit Scale, and Personal Information Form were used as data collection tools in…

The influence of noncognitive variables on student achievement has gained increased attention in recent years. Self-perceptions such as self-efficacy, self-esteem, and self-concept have been found to influential on academic achievement. The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study is to explore the role of academic self-concept in…

There is a growing need in early childhood education (ECE) programs for leadership to be understood, grasped, and utilized as a tool. ECE programs are tasked with not only training new hires in classroom management skills, but also in training their staff to be leaders within their own classrooms. Administrators in ECE programs are in the business…

In this study, it was investigated the intention of students to stay enrolled and student retention in undergraduate business management programs. The intention of students to stay enrolled and student retention are concerns for academic institutions. There is the need to direct resources to attract students and provide students with tools to…

This quantitative study analyzed the relationship between teacher autonomy and teachers' intentions to remain in the profession, job satisfaction, and years of experience. All participants completed the Continuing Validation of the Teaching Autonomy Scale, Teaching Satisfaction Scale, and answered questions concerning the demographics. When…

In many schools and districts, students of color living in low-income communities are told in simple and covert ways every day that they must leave their communities if they want to be successful. The message may be well-intentioned, but the leave to succeed (L2S) mindset is a dangerous narrative that affects students' sense of self. Students…

Collaboration among teachers is an important vehicle for teacher development, shared leadership, improving student achievement, building school culture, and attracting and retaining effective teachers. However, if professional collaborative environments are not truly diverse and inclusive or marginalize individual teachers or groups of teachers…

Traditional teacher education and alternative teacher preparation programs struggle to recruit and retain prospective and early-career educators of color. To address this challenge, Jalene Tamerat and Clifford Lee recount their experiences as teachers and teacher educators-of color. They propose a reframing of pedagogies, curricula, and…

Empirical evidence increasingly suggests that supervisors' support significantly impacts employees' commitment to change and possibly diminishes their turnover intention. This study, conducted at a government university in Oman, investigated a mediated-effects model of leadership support and faculty turnover intention. The model proposes…

Many doctoral students do not finish their studies. Social support has been shown to lower the likelihood of student withdrawal. I propose peer-mentoring as one of the practices that makes a significant difference in doctoral student attrition. In this longitudinal study, I investigated the influence of peer-mentoring on students' motivation and…

This study aims to explore the relationship between locus of control, grit, self-esteem and mental health among college students. A questionnaire survey was used to conduct a study on the mental health of 923 E-learning college students from 10 universities in Guangxi, China. In this study, Pearson correlation analysis was used to test the…