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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"College Access and Success"”.

  1. “My Training Wheels are Off:” How First Generation College Students Made Meaning of the Influence of their College Access and Support Programs

    <p>This research explored how 47 first generation college students at a private university in the Northeast used non-profit and government-funded college access and support programs to make meaning of their college-going journeys. The participants used college access programs to prepare themselves …

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  2. The Soul of A School: An Ethnographic Study of College-Going Culture at an Urban High School

    … in facilitating underrepresented students' access to and success in college is examined in this ethnographic study. The purpose of this study is to examine an urban, public high school's culture in the southeast region of the United States with a high population of African Americans and …

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  3. Three essays on rural-nonrural disparities in postsecondary access and success

    [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] While a college degree is increasingly a crucial pathway to achieve success in the U.S labor market, recent estimates indicate that 20% of rural young adults have a college degree, as compared to 38% of their peers in nonrural …

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  4. Essays on the Economics of High School-to-College Transition Programs and Teacher Effectiveness

    … three essays on the economics of high school-to-college transition programs and teacher effectiveness. The first essay studies the two largest credit-based transition programs in the United States: Advanced Placement and Dual Enrollment. While these programs are distinct, both of them allow …

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  5. Twenty Years of Community-Based College Success: Oral Histories from Practitioners, Partners, and Peer Mentors Supporting City University of New York (CUNY) Students

    <p>For the past twenty years, community-based college success programs have supported a generation of young people entering all twenty-five City University of New York (CUNY) Colleges. As the country’s largest urban university system, CUNY has historically been a major engine of economic mobility …

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