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Showing 1 to 20 of 93 for “"degree attainment"”.
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Degree Attainment Among Adult Learners
… understanding and discover knowledge about degree attainment among adult learners. This qualitative inquiry is about what 15 bachelor's degree recipients over the age of 25 felt contributed to their efforts to attain the bachelor's degree.</p><p>This study contains professional research and …
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Student loan debt influence on graduate degree attainment
… accruing more debt than ever to pay for college degrees, and recent trends in higher education report a raise in cost of tuition. Current statistics reveal over 1.2 trillion dollars in outstanding student loan debt from over 40 million borrowers, however, students are still being encouraged to …
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Comparing Factors of Bachelor's Degree Attainment for First and Continuing Generation Students
… have the greatest influence on first generation degree attainment. As such, this quantitative study examined how factors influencing student success vary for first and continuing generation students through an analysis of a nationally representative dataset from the 2004/2009 Beginning …
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The influence of conflicting role obligations on nontraditional student baccalaureate degree attainment
… influence these students' persistence toward the attainment of an undergraduate degree. This study provides a brief history of adult education in the United States as well as the study context, a continuing studies division of a privately endowed research institution located in the southern United …
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Contributing Factors to the Bachelor's Degree Attainment of Males in the United States
The degree attainment of college students is a critical issue that institutions of higher education are considering. Colleges want to improve their retention, progression, and graduation rates for all students. Over the past decades men, based on the literature reviewed, have earned fewer degrees …
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An Examination of the Bachelor's Degree Attainment Experiences of African American Males Post-Incarceration
… offense and successfully obtained bachelor's degree upon release. This research asks the questions: what motivated the pursuit of a degree, how did they pay for it, what resources were utilized, what challenges were overcome, and what impact this achievement had on their lives? Additionally, …
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Laying the foundation: An investigation of bachelor's degree attainment rates of early college high school graduates
… and a significant head start on a Bachelor's Degree.</p> <p>The study resulted in two major findings. First, ECA graduates have earned Bachelor's Degrees at far higher rates than their non-ECA peers (at EMU, the ECA rate was 68%, <em>N</em> = 47 as compared with 23% of the non-ECA students, …
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The Impact of Academic Momentum on Postsecondary Matriculation and Degree Attainment among Early College High School Students
… less likely to enroll in college and complete a degree (Haxton et al., 2016). Recently, states have introduced a range of policies and strategies aimed at boosting college readiness by strengthening collaborations between secondary and postsecondary education sectors. One popular strategy has …
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African American Women Baccalaureate Success: A Reflective Look at Pre-Collegiate Years Influencing Transition, Persistence, and Degree Attainment
… toward college and eventual baccalaureate attainment. I sought to investigate, specifically, <em>how the high school experiences of African American young women shape and support their transition to college and ultimately degree success. </em>Through the use of an initial questionnaire …
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A Seven Year Analysis of Early College Programs in Ohio: A Cost Efficient Way to Improve Degree Attainment
… Ohio citizens who have attained a post-secondary degree will help Ohio improve its competitiveness in the national and global economy. One cost effective way to improve the college degree attainment rate for recent high school graduates is early college programs, which enable high school students …
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Telling Our Stories: Exploring the Path Toward Successful Mathematics Degree Attainment at an Under-Resourced Predominantly Black Institution
… that would adequately prepare them for college attainment in mathematics.</p> <p>The primary research question guiding this study was: What are the challenges and opportunities associated with building and sustaining a successful mathematics degree program at an under-resourced Predominantly …
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Understanding the “steps” to degree attainment for first-generation students: a study of a mentoring program and a living learning community at a predominantly white institution
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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Impacts of Childbearing on College Success: A Study of Two Generations
… variables most predictive of bachelor’s degree attainment. The regressions were conducted for women overall, women who have ever enrolled in college, mothers, and mothers who have ever enrolled in college. There were several major findings from this study. First, having a child is the …
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Parental Involvement, Academic Motivation, and Educational Attainment among Latinx Students
… motivation, engagement, college enrollment, and degree attainment. Additionally, it also explores how these relationships vary by students’ gender and immigration generation status. Using data from the Educational Longitudinal Study of 2002, which included Latinx students (n = 2,217) and their …
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Measuring critical thinking skills and dispositions in undergraduate students
… during the course of an undergraduate degree. Study 5 explored a two factor structure for critical thinking dispositions. Study 6 used reliability analysis to revise the CCTST to produce the CCTST-UK. Study 7 showed that the CCTST-UK had a moderate correlation with degree attainment and …
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Revolutionizing the case for affirmative action in the 21st century: Analyzing the consequences and benefits of a merit-based scholarship for URM students
… between race/ethnicity and the college degree attainment of underrepresented racial minority (URM) students receiving a merit-aid scholarship. Using an institutional database from a highly selective public university, multiple statistical techniques were conducted to examine how degree …
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Paradigm Shift in African American Funeral Customs: Looking through the Lens of Oral History and Consumer Culture
The degree attainment of college students is a critical issue that institutions of higher education are considering. Colleges want to improve their retention, progression, and graduation rates for all students. Over the past decades men, based on the literature reviewed, have earned fewer degrees …
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Faring better or worse: A quantitative analysis of student success outcomes of the Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program at Eastern Michigan University
… conditions. Although acquisition of a college degree is the sole determining factor most influential for social mobility of families in the lowest income bracket, only 10.13% of total degrees conferred in 2015-2016 were to African American students. Additionally, being first-generation and …
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Predicting Academic Achievement of Male College Students
… linked to academic success (i.e., GPA, degree attainment). Currently, more opportunities are available for African Americans and Hispanics to attend college than ever before; however, GPA and the rate of attainment of a Bachelor of Arts degree are significantly lower for African American …
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