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Baumgartner, Jennifer N.; Schneider, Tamera R. – Journal of American College Health, 2023
Objective: The transition into college can pose barriers for student success. We examined the impact of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) compared to an active and no treatment control group, respectively, on stressor appraisals, academic persistence, and performance in university students. Participants: Students were randomly assigned to…
Descriptors: College Students, Metacognition, Stress Management, Program Effectiveness
Stephen P. Ostendorff – ProQuest LLC, 2023
As the enrollment cliff, fueled by declining birthrates and fewer students graduating from high school, continues to challenge colleges and universities to find new enrollment and revenue streams, one area of opportunity is increasing the enrollment of adult learners in on-campus, hybrid, and online programs. Colleges, like Northeast Religious…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Higher Education, School Holding Power, Intervention
David Daigler – Maine Community College System, 2024
The Maine Community College System provides this letter in accordance with 20-A MRSA §10013. This law requires the Maine Community College System (MCCS), University of Maine System (UMS), and Maine Maritime Academy (MMA) to provide the following information about first-generation college students by January 15th of each year: (1) Data regarding…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, First Generation College Students, Community College Students, Enrollment Rate
Benjamin James Lehan – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Institutions of higher education have been consistently offering more virtual classes over the past decade. The need to understand the implications of these increased virtual class offerings has become essential in recent years. The purpose of this study was to explore virtual classes within a college of agriculture and the impact on student…
Descriptors: Web Based Instruction, Academic Achievement, Agricultural Colleges, Agricultural Education
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Hetherington, Chelsea – Journal of Extension, 2020
Many Extension precollege programs seek to increase young people's interest in and aspirations toward college by fostering the development of skills that support a successful college transition. By pairing existing data with participant enrollment records, Extension professionals can more easily capture the impact of precollege programs on college…
Descriptors: Extension Education, College Attendance, Enrollment Rate, Youth Programs
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Chingos, Matthew M.; Kisida, Brian – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2023
Washington, DC's Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP), the only federally funded school voucher program in the United States, has provided private school scholarships to low-income students in DC since 2004. From its inception, the program has received significant attention in national debates and has been the subject of rigorous evaluations…
Descriptors: Educational Vouchers, College Enrollment, Program Effectiveness, Enrollment Rate
Daigler, David – Maine Community College System, 2022
The Maine Community College System is providing this letter in accordance with 20-A MRSA §10013. This law requires the Maine Community College System (MCCS), University of Maine System (UMS), and Maine Maritime Academy (MMA) to provide the following information about first-generation college students by January 15th of each year: (1) data…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, First Generation College Students, Community College Students, Enrollment Rate
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William T. Gormley; Sara Amadon; Katherine Magnuson; Amy Claessens; Douglas Hummel-Price – AERA Open, 2023
In this study, we used data from a cohort of 4,033 Tulsa kindergarten students to investigate the relationship between pre-K enrollment and later college enrollment. Specifically, we tested whether participation in the Tulsa Public Schools universal pre-K program and the Tulsa Community Action Project (CAP) Head Start program predicted enrollment…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Access to Education, Public Schools, Kindergarten
Terrell F. Williams – ProQuest LLC, 2024
While Black students have experienced significant growth in college enrollment since the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Higher Education Act of 1965, they are still less likely than their white counterparts to attend and graduate from a post-secondary institution (Ryan & Bauman, 2016). There have been previous studies on college…
Descriptors: Blacks, African American Students, College Choice, College School Cooperation
Complete College America, 2022
Across the country, colleges using Complete College America (CCA) strategies are improving graduation rates. But despite these overall gains, data continues to show persistent institutional performance gaps for BILPOC (Black, Indigenous, Latinx, People of Color) students and students ages 25 and older. Students in both of these groups…
Descriptors: College Students, Minority Group Students, Adult Students, Achievement Gap
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Espinoza, Oscar; González, Luis Eduardo; Sandoval, Luis; McGinn, Noel; Corradi, Bruno – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2022
In 2016, Chile implemented a policy of free higher education (gratuity) for secondary school graduates from families in the lower income range. One of the stated objectives of the new policy was to increase the access of secondary school graduates from families with lower levels of education. To answer that concern, we analyzed administrative data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Access to Education, High School Graduates
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Smith, M. Corinne; Gosky, Ross M.; Li, Jui-Teng – Journal of College Access, 2022
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between visits to college campuses by middle school and high school students and postsecondary enrollment rates, where campus visits are classified as both formal college visits and also informal campus visits. Specifically, Traditional Campus Visits and Educational Campus Field Trips are…
Descriptors: Correlation, School Visitation, Middle School Students, High School Students
Kristy Clementina Perez – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The college enrollment and graduation rates of Black and Latino males continues to be a persistent higher education problem. Furthermore, institutions of higher education fail the interests and educational advancement of Black and Latino men by many measures such as retention and college completion rates. More specifically, institutionalized…
Descriptors: College Students, Males, Blacks, African American Students
Donovan, William – Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research, 2020
Madison Park Technical Vocational High School in Boston is attempting a turnaround and has been for decades. In 2016, after having been designated a Level 4 school by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE), a stamp that branded it "underperforming," school officials created a plan they began…
Descriptors: Vocational High Schools, School Turnaround, Educational Improvement, Program Implementation
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National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2023
For adults with low incomes and potential first-generation college-goers, enrolling in college can be challenging. The U.S. Department of Education-funded Educational Opportunity Centers (EOCs) provide supports to help navigate some of the barriers to enrollment, including assistance with completing college and financial aid application processes,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Higher Education, Adult Education, Adult Students
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