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Should We Still Be Talking about Leaving? A Comparative Examination of Social Inequality in Undergraduate Patterns of Switching Majors. WCER Working Paper No. 2014-5
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Ferrare, Joseph J.; Lee, You-Geon – Wisconsin Center for Education Research, 2014
Despite extensive efforts to increase the number of undergraduates majoring and persisting in science, math, engineering, and technology (STEM) fields, there is surprisingly little understanding of recent patterns of switching from these majors to those in other fields of study. In addition, little is known about whether the racial, class, and…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), STEM Education, Undergraduate Students, Comparative Analysis
Understanding the Racial Transfer Gap: Modeling Underrepresented Minority and Nonminority Students' Pathways from Two-to Four-Year Institutions
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Crisp, Gloria; Nuñez, Anne-Marie – Review of Higher Education, 2014
This study models student-and institutional-level factors that influence vertical transfer among a national sample of White and underrepresented minority (URM) community college students. Results indicate that the predictors of transfer are different in many ways for White and URM students. Most notably, findings suggest that enrolling in…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, White Students, Two Year College Students, Disproportionate Representation
Race, Class, Gender and Community College Persistence among African American Women
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Walpole, MaryBeth; Chambers, Crystal Renee; Goss, Kathryn – NASPA Journal About Women in Higher Education, 2014
This inquiry is an exploration of the educational trajectories of African American women community college students. We compare the persistence of African American women to African American men and to all women college students using the 1996/2001 Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Survey and the 1993/2003 Baccalaureate and Beyond…
Descriptors: Two Year College Students, African American Students, Academic Persistence, Females
The Impact of Developmental Education on Community College Persistence and Vertical Transfer
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Crisp, Gloria; Delgado, Chryssa – Community College Review, 2014
Developmental education has been cited as one of the most difficult issues facing community colleges. Despite the controversy and changes to educational policy regarding developmental education, there is a notable dearth of rigorous research measuring the causal effect of remediation on community college student outcomes. The present study uses…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Developmental Studies Programs, Academic Persistence