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Showing 1 to 20 of 55 for “"college access"”.
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College access for first-generation highlander college students of northern Thailand
This study focuses on first-generation college students of highland ethnic minorities, formally known as “hill tribes,” who have languages and cultures very different from mainstream Thais. Little is known about college attendance among these students, and the Thai government collects no …
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Advancing the Ascent into Higher Education: An Exploration of College Access Programming
… a master’s thesis on Breakthrough Twin Cities, a college access program located in the Minneapolis/St. Paul metropolitan area of Minnesota. This study explored the perspectives of participating students, parents, staff members and the board of directors through individual interviews and online …
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Exploring Collective Impact: A Developmental Program Evaluation of a College Access Program
… Glen School District, Brook Heights Community College, and Remarkable Outcomes rallied around their common priorities of increasing college matriculation rates in their community. The Partnership created programming that promotes the preparation and transition of students into postsecondary …
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A policy study about equity and college access : the Missouri A+ schools program
… original, and not all students in the state have access to the pathways program and the opportunities college provides. The program is transformational-for those fortunate to attend an A+ designated school. For some students in rural and inner city environments, college is not accessible, and for …
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The unpaved road: examining the rural student experience and overcoming college access barriers
… under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-19 without embargo terms
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Community college dual credit: differential participation and differential impacts on college access and completion
… the impact of student participation in community college dual credit courses during the senior year of high school on two outcomes: college enrollment and college completion. Propensity score matching, a robust technique for reducing bias using observational data (Rosenbaum & Rubin, 1983; 1984), …
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Teachers' perceived changes in cultural, human, and social capital as a result of involvement in a college access program
… in the study participated in a high school level college-access program aimed at increasing the college-going rate of under-served youth. Further, each participant had at least three years' experience in the program. The research suggests that there may be a teacher typology even within a …
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“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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Investigating Academic and Psychosocial Outcomes of First-Generation African American Postsecondary Students who completed Early College Access Programming: A Qualitative Case Study
… American students who have completed early college access programming (ECAP). Not all children have equal access to higher education, therefore educators have been trying to bridge the gap in education for years. Due to socio-economic challenges in society, there has been a colossal increase …
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A case study exploring college access for low-income, first-generation urban African American students and the career success of Mr. Silas Purnell, ‘the Michael Jordan of TRiO’
… uses a case study to explore issues of college access for low-income, first-generation urban African American students. This project also examines the work of Mr. Silas Purnell, the man I have deemed as ‘The Michael Jordan of TRiO’. He was a pioneer, leader, and in essence—a game changer …
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Geographic inequities in local higher education opportunities? : identifying college deserts with critical GIS
… impacted by having postsecondary education, access to college is a pertinent research topic. Access is a widely researched topic, but only recently has college access been studied specifically. This study proposes a geographic information systems based methodology for quantifying college …
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School counselors in action reframing professional development to engage families
… communities aspire for their children to go to college, but often lack access to the necessary social capital to transform aspirations for their children into action. Federal 6 initiatives focused on increasing educational attainment for students in underserved comn1tmities emphasize the …
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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 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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The Race for Privilege in Blackness: Transformative Leadership in Traversing Space in Search of Black Queer Cool
… of transcending obstacles overshadowing accessing college, graduate school, career success in education; doctoral ambitions with audacity within classes of pervasive racism, heterosexism and homophobia. Parallel instances of critical confrontations in predominantly Black secondary schools …
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First Year College Experiences of California’s Central Valley Latina/o/x Students
<p>Making the decision to attend and pursue college as a means of social mobility is an option students in the state of California make every year when graduating high school. Scholars have contributed extensively to understand how students prepare and transition into their first year of college, …
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Cultural capital in urban communities as a pathway to engineering at a predominantly white institution: Narratives of African American women in engineering
… family, school and community networks in gaining college access and their choice of major? The three-essay dissertation addresses these questions by examining the academic trajectory and illuminating the first person narrative experiences of the African American women, all of whom attend the same …
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