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Direct linkHolton-Thomas, Amber; Perez-Felkner, Lara; Templeton, Da'Shay Portis – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2023
To sustain the higher education industry and address U.S. economic downturns, researchers must prioritize research on undergraduates aged 24 or above -- contemporary students. This empirical study finds contemporary students have lower chances of attaining degrees--"any degrees"--than their younger peers. Using nationally representative…
Descriptors: Institutional Characteristics, College Transfer Students, Educational Attainment, Longitudinal Studies
Okpych, Nathanael J.; Courtney, Mark E. – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2021
Youth who were in foster care as adolescents make up a small but highly vulnerable subpopulation of the college student body. This article analyzes secondary data collected from one of the most comprehensive longitudinal studies of foster youth. The analytic sample includes 329 foster youth from three Midwestern states who attended college in the…
Descriptors: Barriers, Academic Persistence, Academic Degrees, College Students
