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Exploring the roles the digital divide, social capital and community cultural wealth play for first-generation college students at HBCUs during the college search and financial aid process
… of first- and second- year first-generation college students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) related to the college admissions process and finding financial aid. This applies the digital divide to determine whether the three levels of the digital divide still impact …
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How the internet has impacted college recruitment and admissions
<p>This study provides advice to college admissions and public relations professionals so they can make their college web sites more user friendly.</p> <p>The author surveyed 275 juniors and seniors from six randomly selected Catholic and public New Jersey high schools. There were 261 viable …
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The Case for Character Strengths In College Admissions Advising: The Way You Are is a Great Way to Be
Graduating from high school and moving on to college is one of the most important transitions in a young person’s life. Unfortunately, the process leading up to that milestone—during which a student considers and applies to specific colleges—is often viewed as a pointlessly painful gauntlet rather …
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Integrating Cultural Perspectives of First Generation Latino Students and Families into the College Admissions Process
<p>First generation college-bound Latino students and their families are placed at a disadvantage in the college admissions process for a variety of reasons. Their cultural perspectives in relation to education and family combined with the increasingly widening gap between the working class and …
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Understanding the College Choice Process of Catholic Homeschooled Students
… how Catholic homeschooled students navigate the college choice process. With the growth of homeschooling in the United States nearly doubling in the past eight years (Cogan, 2010), this study explored a segment of this growing population to give researchers and practitioners a deeper …
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College choice and African American males: A case study exploring the intersection of family, school, and society on the college choice decision-making process
… was to explore the factors that influence the college choice decisions of African American male first-generation college students. This study employed a strength-based approach, instead of the more traditional narrative centered around values, cultural norms, and deficits. This research study …
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Community Cultural Wealth Within New Latinx Destinations: Mexican American Narratives of College Completion in Oregon
… phenomenon, there is a need for educational research that does not attempt to operate under the same assumptions within regions where the Latinx presence is long-standing, but rather carefully examines educational outcomes and experiences within the new Latinx destination context. This study …
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The Factors that Influence the College Choice of Hispanic College Students
… of racial and ethnic minorities enrolled in college have increased, that growth has not been proportionate to the changing numbers in the United States' population. For example, in 1990 the census reported over 22 million Hispanics in the U.S., or 9% of the total population, yet the 724,600 …
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A Convenient Myopia: SEEK, Shaughnessy, and the Rise of High-Stakes Testing at CUNY
… struggle for racial justice was fought at City College and CUNY from 1964 to 1978. In this archival history, supplemented with thirteen oral histories of students and teachers, and grounded in the larger context of racial segregation and exclusion within American public education and American …
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The unpaved road: examining the rural student experience and overcoming college access barriers
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-19 without embargo terms