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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"College completion"”.
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Race For Completion: Success Courses Components Fostering Successful Community College Completion
… the components of first-year first semester college success courses specifically designed to foster student success in single campus Illinois community colleges. The study provides a historical background of community colleges as it develops a context for the need for college success courses. …
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The Importance Of Coaching: A Program Evaluation Of The Americorps College Completion Coaches Program
… a post-secondary credential, persistence toward completion and graduation have become issues in community colleges. This program evaluation highlights the AmeriCorps College Completion Coach program implemented across community colleges in Ohio during 2012–2017 under the leadership of the Ohio …
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Community Cultural Wealth Within New Latinx Destinations: Mexican American Narratives of College Completion in Oregon
… destination context. This study explores the college access experiences of 20 Mexican American students within Oregon through a Community Cultural Wealth framework (Yosso, 2005). Participants were recruited through a purposeful sampling approach, accompanied with snowball sampling, that was …
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The depth of the river : student matriculation decisions and the black-white college completion gap
In the United States, black college students are less likely to graduate than white students, which has lead many to argue that the "climate" at colleges and universities is not conducive to black students' success. However, another factor may also be important: an insufficient pipeline of …
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Educationally Resilient College Students and Their Experiences With Housing Insecurity
… highlights an important discussion surrounding college opportunity. Qualitative interviews with 20 postsecondary alumni were conducted in a large public research institution in the United States. Through a resilience framework, this study explored how students navigated their housing challenges …
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The Impact of State Characteristics on College Graduation Rates at Land-Grant Institutions
… competitive edge in a global marketplace. Thus, college participation and completion have emerged as the gateway to survival and growth for individuals, states, and the nation, making college completion rates a top priority. Stakeholders have begun to equate graduation rates with institutional …
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Siguiendo El Camino/Following the Path: Exploring the Experiences of Latin* Second-Generation College Students
… to upward mobility and, thus, a robust economy, college completion has become a central focus of the national higher education agenda. As the largest ethnic population in the United States, Latin* college students are at the center of the completion conversation. While enrolling in more …
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From the Margins to the Center: A Qualitative Study Giving Voice to Black Women in Athletic Training Education Programs
… mentoring promotes matriculation and successful college completion and credentialing of Black women ATSs, (3) mentoring also protects Black women ATSs against racism, sexism and classism, (4) although shared race and gender are favorable mentor characteristics, accessible and approachable mentors …
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LIKE THIS AND LIKE THAT: BLACK MIDDLE-CLASS COLLEGIANS IN WHITE SPACES
… the stratification of access and success for college students from racialized and minoritized backgrounds. College success patterns for Black college students at historically white institutions tend to be lower than those of white students (Improving College Access and Completion, 2015). …
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Beyond a "Labor of Love": Exploring the Experiences of College Advising Professions in Central Texas
… to increase the rates of direct-high school-to-college enrollment; however, limited research exists on the professionals working in pre-college outreach, college advising professionals. A growing Latina/o/x population, coupled with their lagging college completion rates, creates a focus on …
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The Power Behind Postsecondary Attainment Goals: A Critical Policy Discourse Analysis
… upheld by policy actors engaged in the college completion agenda that perpetuated power structures maintaining white supremacy by relying on the success of racially marginalized communities to meet postsecondary attainment goals. With philanthropic foundations playing an increased role …
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(Re)Envisioning Factors Contributing to Black Men’s College Success: An Ecological and Critical Reflection Using Photovoice
… the voices of Black men who have completed college degrees. The study explores the question: What factors contribute to college completion for Black men? Using a qualitative approach and the Ethos platform to collect images, photo captions, and critical reflection data from a purposive …
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An Exploration of Differences in Group Perceptions of Diversity and Faculty-Student Engagement Between African American and White American, First-Time Students Enrolled in Community College
Despite progress in access to colleges and student support services, African American students maintain a low community college completion rate, relative to their enrollment. Using critical race theory as a theoretical framework, this quantitative study utilized the Community College Survey of …
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Educational redesign in rural Kansas secondary schools to promote postsecondary credential attainment
… learning with life and work to increase national college completion. A report to the U.S. congress and secretary of education.2012). This study articulates (a) thick descriptions of transformational approaches to build a culture that is conducive to successful preparation of students for …
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Change in Race and Ethnic Stratification: The Roles of Period, Cohort, Immigrant Generation, Socioeconomic Origins and Gender in Shaping Educational Attainment
… probabilities of high school graduation, college entry and college completion for over 45,000 respondents, 16 different "religio-ethnic" groups and four immigrant generations. My results indicate that gaps in educational attainment increase at higher levels of education by generation, …
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Upward Mobility: A Phenomenological Study Of The Hispanic Student Experience In Dual Enrollment
… as one of the best ways to prepare students for college. Hispanics represent the largest and fastest growing minority ethnic population in the nation, but they are underrepresented in most dual enrollment programs. Although previous research has demonstrated that dual enrollment programs produce …
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Sense of Belonging of Students of Color Participating in Living Learning Communities: A Phenomenological Study
… practice with substantial evidence of increasing college completion and sense of belonging for all students. While there have been separate studies on the impact of living learning communities and the sense of belonging of Students of Color, few scholars have conducted research on how Students of …
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The Four-Year College Pipeline and Factors Related to Bachelor's Degree Completion for High School Graduates
… progress from high school graduation through college enrollment and completion. Much of the existing research frames high school dropout, college access, and college completion as separate phenomena; few studies examine individuals' transitions across these points. Thinking about these events …
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Closing The Gap: Greater Retention And Achievement Through Service-Learning At Wayne State University
… credential and a social symbol of success, the college degree has taken its place. Some sixty years after Brown v The Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, the current challenge is improving completion rates at the college level. Nationally, the six-year completion rate for black undergraduate …
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