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Ebanks, Gilda; Francois, Samantha – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2023
Community colleges have been an educational source for individuals to increase capital and social mobility. But the reality of these opportunities is not the same for all. First generation, low income, non-traditional minority students make up a large percentage of students enrolling in community colleges yet retention rates, primarily for African…
Descriptors: Females, African American Students, Community College Students, Academic Persistence
Brent Lamar Via – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Employee retention is an ongoing challenge for higher education student affairs professionals, who account for the largest employee group across the higher education workforce. Job satisfaction and organizational commitment have previously been identified as correlated with college and university employees' decision to stay or vacate their…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Student Personnel Workers, Leadership Styles, Leadership Responsibility
Zachary Richards – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation is composed of three studies linking general education astronomy to student performance, course-taking, graduation, and identity. The first study examined demographic and academic predictors of astronomy performance among a cohort of N=1,909 community college students enrolled in astronomy courses in a large suburban community…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Community College Students, Astronomy, STEM Education
William Vega – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Though online course offerings have expanded to meet the needs of student access in the context of funding constraints, research has shown worse student outcomes in online classes, with significant inequities by race and ethnicity. Consequently, the proliferation of online course offerings could have vast implications for equity in the California…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Community College Students, Academic Persistence, Time to Degree
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Francis M. Burns; Fidele Ngwane – Community College Enterprise, 2024
Objective: We wanted to identify factors associated with pre-nursing student retention and success at a small, rural two-year institution in South Carolina. Method: Transcript analysis generated a dataset for pre-nursing students (N = 125). Both descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze high school and university data. Results:…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, Two Year College Students, Rural Schools, Academic Persistence
Lerman, David – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Standard assessments of cognitive ability have been the preferred method of assessing the probability of student achievement at community colleges, but there is a growing trend in the use of noncognitive factors to assess student potential. Factors related to a student's race/ethnicity and family income have been shown to be correlated with…
Descriptors: Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Ability, Predictor Variables, Grade Point Average
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Robert Linden; Michal Kurlaender; Paco Martorell; Scott E. Carrell – Grantee Submission, 2022
Using rich administrative data from the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office that tracks each student longitudinally, this analysis examines how the onset of the pandemic affected student enrollment duration. Data are disaggregated by student characteristics and college campuses in order to understand variable impacts and equity…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Enrollment, Academic Persistence
Carey Harold Brown – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study examined areas of concern within the community college level of higher education affecting the retention and attrition rates of African American male first-year students at three community colleges in the state of New Jersey. It used a four-stage investigative design to identify variable factors that are correlated to retention and…
Descriptors: Community College Students, African American Students, Males, Success
A. Gardner; M. Ibrahim; S. Karamarkovich; M. Holsapple; D. Shapiro – National Student Clearinghouse, 2024
The purpose of this report is to analyze the differences between timely completers and students who did not complete in either a timely manner or complete at all, on several key early success indicators that are outlined below. Timely completion has been shown to mitigate financial burdens associated with prolonged enrollment, optimize…
Descriptors: Time to Degree, Academic Persistence, Educational Finance, Grade Point Average
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Zhang, Yi Leaf – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2022
Focusing on community college transfer students who declared a STEM major at their initial transfer to a four-year research university, this study examined the extent to which students' sociodemographic characteristics and academic factors were related to STEM persistence and attrition. This study tracked multiple cohorts of transfer students…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Academic Persistence, School Holding Power, Educational Attainment
Kinsey, Alan Wesley – ProQuest LLC, 2022
With the increase in online course enrollments each year, there is a continued examination of online course persistence, particularly in accelerated online courses. This examination of online course persistence has typically examined individual learner factors as contributors to persistence. However, research examining the institutional and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Student Motivation, Predictor Variables
Bernardin, Marie F. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Academic advisement, one of the most important support services provided by institutions, creates teaching relationships between advisors and students that have longlasting lessons in goal setting and time management, and enhances student connections with the institution. It is with academic advising that institutions have the most impact on…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Academic Advising, Grade Point Average, Academic Persistence
Wall, Elisabeth M. – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This nonexperimental, longitudinal panel study was designed to test the predictive capacity of a grit intervention within a first-year seminar course that targeted academically underprepared students at a Mississippi community college. Extant pre- and post-grit scores for developmental students enrolled in the first-year seminar were analyzed for…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Persistence, Remedial Programs, Two Year College Students
Shanda Jeanette Jenkins – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Impostor Phenomenon (IP) is a feeling of illegitimacy or fraudulence despite evidence to the contrary. Most people experience feelings of impostorism in their lifetime, and it has been associated with several outcomes in the literature. Although there is some evidence higher education may facilitate feelings of IP, community college students have…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Self Concept
Grace K. Sumabat Estrada – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This study investigated whether social identity (i.e., ethnic, science, or a combination of ethnic and science identities) and self-efficacy (i.e., general academic and science) predict academic persistence in STEM (i.e., graduating with a baccalaureate degree in a STEM or STEM-related discipline). The study drew on social cognitive theory (SCT,…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Self Efficacy, Academic Persistence, STEM Education
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