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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"college student persistence"”.
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Improving Community College Student Persistence: An Investigation of Promising Practices
<p>In recent years, community colleges have garnered national attention in terms of their potential to produce graduates and assist in the revitalization of the national economy. This has resulted in an increased need for both community college researchers and practitioners to understand more fully …
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¡Si se pudo! Exploring Mexican American college student persistence stories during COVID-19
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-19 without embargo terms
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Does it Matter Where You Borrow?: The Impact of Student Loan Borrowing and State Higher Education Funding Structures on Community College Student Persistence
Community college students are a vulnerable higher education population who experience low rates of degree attainment. As the costs of higher education rise, however, more students at these two-year institutions are borrowing federal student loans in order to afford attendance. In addition, state …
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Variables That Discriminate Between Persisting and Nonpersisting, First-Year Undergraduate Students in an Open-Admissions, Multicampus, Commuter College System
<p><em>Problem.</em> Most new undergraduate students begin college with the highest hope of finishing their educational programs. Unfortunately, a large number of students drop out prior to graduation. This is particularly true of nontraditional students who attend nonresidential commuter colleges. …
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Teacher Matters: Teacher Normative Influence and Student Persistence in College
… extends the work on teacher immediacy (TI) and student persistence by using the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) (Ajzen, 1985) to account for variability in college student persistence. Students provided perceptions of their teachers’ immediacy behaviors using modified versions of Gorham’s …
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Motivational Factors Underlying College Students' Decisions to Resume Their Educational Pursuits in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
College student persistence has been the central focus of higher education for decades. Specifically, historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have directed their attention to increasing the retention and graduation rates of African American college students. Postsecondary institutions …
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Examining the Relationship Between Spirituality and Persistence of Community College Graduates Who Matriculate to the Baccalaureate Degree Granting Institution
<p>Community college students, more often than not, face challenges not typical to those of traditional-aged students. They are more likely to attend part-time, tend to be the least academically prepared, more financially challenged, often working, and have a greater likelihood of being single …
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Community college student retention : an examination of student pre-entry attributes, academic experiences, and social experiences and the relationship to first-year persistence
… the extent that the attributes of incoming students and their subsequent academic and social interactions at an institution are related to community college student retention. Student data from a cohort of first-time students (N = 1089) attending a community college in southwest Missouri was …
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Community College Student Motivation and Persistence to Goals
<p>Community colleges in the United States serve a vital educational role in job training, preparation for transfer to a four-year institution, granting academic degrees and certificates as well as offering opportunities for personal growth and development. Persistence has traditionally been …
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Comparison of Event History Analysis and Latent Growth Modeling for College Student Perseverance
… a more robust framework. Whether or not a student remains in college presents an appropriate context within which to examine the modeling of event occurrence with longitudinal data. The purpose of the study was to compare event history and latent growth modeling as for predicting change in …
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Student aid and persistence in public community colleges
… a conceptual model for assessing the effects of student aid on community college student persistence. A sample consisting of all students who had entered a public community college during the 1980 fall term was drawn from the database of High School and Beyond, 1980 Senior Cohort. Omitting …
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The efficacy of a strengths-based approach in a university 101 course with undecided students
Universities have historically approached college student success by measuring persistence and retention (Astin, 1977, 1984, 1993, 1999; Tinto, 1975, 1987, 1993). College student persistence from the first year to the second year is of primary importance to higher education administrators because …