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Sara Montiel – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation builds on literature centering first-generation college students (FGCS) with immigrant parentage in order to develop an understanding of how many of their unique and intersectional experiences may function as assets that could promote retention and degree completion. The sample is comprised of 30 FGCS who are also first- or…
Descriptors: Immigrants, First Generation College Students, Decision Making, College Attendance
Blansfield, Karen C. – Currents, 1999
Increasingly, college and university alumni associations are providing confidential online career services, including access to job listings, opportunities for resume postings, direct access to quality applicants, and bypass conventional advertising and expensive headhunters. For alumni, they expand job networking opportunities and facilitate the…
Descriptors: Alumni, Alumni Associations, Career Development, College Administration
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Magnusson, Jamie-Lynn; Perry, Raymond P. – Research in Higher Education, 1992
A study investigated college students' (n=226) academic help-seeking behavior under task-involved and ego-involved classroom conditions, students' attributions for failure, and two types of help source (instrumental, in which the student finds his own solution, and executive, in which a solution is disclosed). Implications for classroom teaching…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Attribution Theory, Classroom Techniques, College Instruction