Despite the greater numbers of underrepresented racial and ethnic minority (UREM) students enrolling in college over the last few years, many disparities still exist between UREM students (specifically Black and Latinx) and their White student peers when looking at grade point average, "staying-in-college," and degree attainment. The…

Career development events (CDEs) play an essential role in agricultural education programs and the National FFA Organization. The competitive events are promoted as tools to develop career and college readiness of high school students. This study examined whether participation and performance in agricultural education CDEs in high school can…

This applied dissertation is a mixed-methods study designed to collect student perspectives of an online First-Year Experience (FE) course and to determine the overall value of the FE course. The researcher sought to identify what is the value of the FE course to the students enrolled in this online course. In the study's survey, students will be…

Although the enrollment rates of Latino college students has increased over the last decade, the graduation rate of Latino students has not kept pace. The Latino population is the largest and fastest growing minority group in the United States, but the college graduation rate of Latino students is among the lowest of all minorities. Despite the…

In an effort to raise graduation rates, the Missouri Department of Higher Education and Workforce Development directed public institutions to establish policies and create corequisite support structures to allow some underprepared students to take entry-level mathematics courses without first completing non-credit remedial courses. The present…

A Rural Field Experience, in which pre-service teachers are totally immersed in the rural school setting and rural life, has been successful in attracting and retaining mathematics and science teachers in rural schools. The week-long Rural Field Experience is having a lasting effect on recruiting and retaining teachers. Responses from teacher…

Increasing student success and retention rates are top goals for many higher education institutions. Supplemental Instruction (SI) is a widely used academic support program designed to increase students' academic performance and provide students the learning skills they need to persist to graduation. Unfortunately, a lack of time, personnel, and…

The purpose of this study was to examine the perceived quality of relationship between first-time freshmen and their instructors at a local HBCU on self-efficacy and a student's intent to remain in school. A mixed-method research design was conducted utilizing surveys and open-ended questions to collect data. The findings were marginally…

The teacher turnover remains to be a pressing problem in the United States. Some teachers move between schools, while others leave the profession altogether. This creates loss, costs, and disruptions in our schools. This loss is even magnified in urban schools, under- performing schools, and schools with more economically disadvantaged students.…

In this poetic autoethnography, exploration of the feeling and the experience of developing persistence as an English Education doctoral student mother is expressed through analysis of artifacts gathered over a 20-year period inclusive of the years of graduate study, becoming and remaining an English teacher and professor, while paralleling the…

The four appendices in this report accompany the full report "The Effects of a Principal Professional Development Program Focused on Instructional Leadership. NCEE 2020-0002," (ED599489). They include: (1) The Study's Principal Professional Development Program; (2) Study Design, Data Collection, and Analytic Methods; (3) Supplemental…

"Learn at your own pace and earn your degree without missing out on the important things happening in your life." It sounds so easy and so appealing. In colleges and universities nation-wide more and more students are signing up for online classes in the hope that they will be able to successfully juggle the demands of their daily lives…

Although not a new phenomenon, student swirl and drift continues to grow, and student enrollment patterns are becoming progressively more complex. Many students attend multiple institutions throughout their academic careers, either separately or concurrently, often starting while they are still enrolled in high school. The role of institutional…

Community college leaders seeking best practices to improve completion rates and student success have a strategy to consider -- experiential learning as part of a course. An accounting business course, at a mid-sized community college in the southeast, recently implemented an experiential learning activity to determine the association with…

Despite multiple calls for diversifying academia in general, and Library and Information Science programs (LIS) specifically, the number of faculty of color working in higher education remains low. This work presents the points of view and suggestions of a faculty member concerning the diversity dilemma in LIS. The work relies on personal…