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Jeanne Batalova; Michael Fix – Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies, 2022
More than 10 million U.S. workers with college degrees, or one in six, are immigrants. While many have found jobs that make full use of their education and skills, nearly a quarter are underemployed, that is, they are either working in jobs that require no more than a high school diploma or are out of work. Tackling immigrants' skill…
Descriptors: Adults, Adult Literacy, Higher Education, Educational Attainment
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Sutton, Roy – Journal of Educators Online, 2014
Many factors affect students selecting a university to attend and almost as many factors that can present challenges once they enroll and begin attending classes. Once they start taking courses, the next challenge is completing them, and this can be particularly taxing for online students. In the case of online universities, quality assessment…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Academic Persistence, Doctoral Programs, Graduate Students
Tolliver, Armando – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this mixed methods study was to explore salient nonacademic factors related to social, economic, and cultural aspects together with traditional academic factors that influenced college retention. The study design employed a mixed-methods sequential explanatory method design, collecting quantitative data for correlation and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, School Holding Power, Socioeconomic Status, Socioeconomic Influences