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Jennifer M. Blaney; David F. Feldon; Annie M. Wofford; Kaylee Litson – Research in Higher Education, 2025
Community college transfer students represent a diverse and talented group to recruit to PhD and other graduate programs. Yet, little is known about practical strategies to support community college transfer students' access to graduate training. Focusing specifically on transfer students in computer science and guided by social cognitive career…
Descriptors: College Transfer Students, Community College Students, Graduate Study, Access to Education
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Charlotte Price; Tamara Thiele; Martin Price – European Journal of Education, 2025
In England, there has been a shift away from 'aspiration raising' in widening participation (WP) activities aimed at improving access to higher education (HE) for students from low socio-economic status groups. This shift is partly based on the notion that students from these groups do not inherently "aim lower" However, understanding…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Aspiration, Low Income Students, High School Students
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Eric J. Anderson; Andrew Buck; Jessie Green; Diane Weinbrandt; Margo Izzo; Amy Shuman – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 2025
Individuals with disabilities do not access postsecondary education at the same rate as their peers without disabilities. This gap is unfortunate, as research shows that when students with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) participate in postsecondary education, they have improved physical, social, and employment outcomes. To…
Descriptors: College Students, Students with Disabilities, Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities
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Ellen Bryer – Grantee Submission, 2025
Given the dramatic risks and rewards to different graduate pathways, it is imperative to understand disparities in access to the highest levels of education. This paper responds to a tension between the traditional understanding that parents' education ceases to influence children's educational trajectories after college and the more recent…
Descriptors: Correlation, Graduate Students, Masters Programs, Parent Child Relationship