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Melike Çaglayan; Ece Çaglayan; Cengiz Acartürk – Research in Higher Education, 2025
This study analyzes the factors influencing the stakeholder perspectives on of Higher Education Institution (HEI) rankings, reporting data collected from 1232 participants through a survey method and employing the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT2) model and complementary models for the analyses. Our primary focus was to…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Attitudes, Higher Education, Institutional Characteristics
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Veronica Minaya; Judith Scott-Clayton; Rachel Yang Zhou – Research in Higher Education, 2024
Graduate education is among the fastest growing segments of the U.S. higher educational system. This paper estimates the returns to Master's degrees and examines heterogeneity in the returns by field area, student demographics and initial labor market conditions. We use rich administrative data from Ohio and an individual fixed effects model that…
Descriptors: Masters Degrees, Outcomes of Education, Income, Salaries
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Yoon, So Yoon; Aldridge, Julie L.; Cox, Monica F.; Main, Joyce B.; McGee, Ebony Omotola; Hailu, Meseret F. – Research in Higher Education, 2023
Gender disparities in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) faculty composition remain a major issue in U.S. higher education. Specifically, the underrepresentation of women of color has been described as a crisis. We developed the Workplace Climate and Persistence Scale (WCPS) for STEM faculty to assess departmental-level…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Work Environment, Teacher Persistence
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David A. Cotter; Catherine White Berheide; Megan A. Carpenter – Research in Higher Education, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic initially placed college and university instruction into an emergency remote mode. The subsequent periods of the pandemic presented new challenges. This paper examines changes in faculty work lives in the immediate aftermath of the onset of the pandemic and reports on results from surveys of faculty at three selective liberal…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Stress Variables, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Peter Riley Bahr; Claire A. Boeck; Yiran Chen; Paula Clasing-Manquian – Research in Higher Education, 2024
Do older community college students build momentum toward graduation differently than their younger peers? One-third of students in community colleges are 25 years of age or older, and these students tend to have lower rates of graduation than their younger peers. Yet, we know little about how the factors that influence college graduation differ…
Descriptors: Age, Gender Differences, Differences, Time to Degree
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Lecy, Natalie; Osteen, Philip – Research in Higher Education, 2022
This study uses the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health to examine the effect of childhood trauma experiences on college graduation rates. A longitudinal mediation path analysis with a binary logistic regression is performed using trauma as a mediator between race, gender, first-generation status and college completion. The…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Trauma, Child Development, Experience
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Elizabeth S. Park; Mike Wilton; Stanley M. Lo; Natascha Buswell; Nicole A. Suarez; Brian K. Sato – Research in Higher Education, 2024
Studies indicate that racial disparities in STEM achievement or equity grade gaps are associated with faculty fixed mindset beliefs; however, whether specific instructional beliefs are linked to student academic achievement remains unclear. We surveyed 216 STEM faculty to assess their mindset and instructional beliefs and linked these to detailed…
Descriptors: STEM Education, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Achievement Gap
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Verbree, Anne-Roos; Hornstra, Lisette; Maas, Lientje; Wijngaards-de Meij, Leoniek – Research in Higher Education, 2023
In recent decades, female students have been more successful in higher education than their male counterparts in the United States and other industrialized countries. A promising explanation for this gender gap are differences in personality, particularly higher levels of conscientiousness among women. Using Structural Equation Modeling on data…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Gender Differences, Foreign Countries, College Students
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Bahr, Peter Riley; McNaughtan, Jon; Jackson, Grant R. – Research in Higher Education, 2023
Community colleges serve nearly half of all undergraduates, including a disproportionate share of African American and Hispanic students, and are a key point of access to higher education for students who face socioeconomic disadvantages or other obstacles to participation in higher education. Community colleges stand to play a pivotal role in…
Descriptors: Two Year College Students, Community Colleges, STEM Education, Academic Persistence
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Claire Wladis; Alyse C. Hachey; Katherine Conway – Research in Higher Education, 2024
Existing qualitative research in higher education on students' work and family commitments already suggests that time as a resource for college is likely not distributed equitably by race/ethnicity or gender. However, the relationship between race/ethnicity, gender, and time as a resource for college has yet to be quantitatively measured in…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Equal Education, Time Management, Student Employment
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M. Kevin Eagan; Ana L. Romero; Shujin Zhong – Research in Higher Education, 2024
The federal government and a number of nonprofit, non-governmental agencies have invested heavily in programs designed to provide research opportunities, financial support, and mentorship to undergraduates in science-related fields. These efforts are aimed at supporting students' matriculation in science majors and into science-related careers.…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, College Science, Diversity, Program Effectiveness
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Hu, Xinye; Hu, Shouping – Research in Higher Education, 2022
Developmental education (DE) reform took place among the 28 Florida College System (FCS) institutions in 2014. In this study, we examine how cohort-based passing rates in college-level English and math courses changed at different colleges for pre- and post-policy period and explore what institutional characteristics were related with various…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Developmental Studies Programs, Educational Change, State Legislation
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Fumiya Uchikoshi; Hirofumi Miwa; Yoshikuni Ono – Research in Higher Education, 2025
In Japan, the gender gap in attendance at 4-year universities is narrowing, yet significantly fewer women apply to selective colleges. A growing body of literature suggests that gendered expectations of educational returns and cultural stereotypes, most compellingly reflected in parental influence, are pivotal in shaping children's college…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Applicants, Sex Stereotypes, Equal Education
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Jianxiu Gu – Research in Higher Education, 2024
This investigation explores gender differences in faculty research productivity in Chinese research-oriented universities. Based on human capital theory and a work-family conflict research framework, this investigation identifies potential variables that influence faculty research productivity. These variables include academic experience, family…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, College Faculty, Research Universities
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Vandelannote, Isis; Demanet, Jannick – Research in Higher Education, 2021
This study investigates whether the ethnic and socioeconomic composition of the secondary school affect higher education enrollment and program choice (non-university higher education or university) in an educational system using a separation model. School-wide social capital is investigated as an underlying mechanism to explain how school…
Descriptors: High School Students, Institutional Characteristics, Social Capital, Enrollment
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