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Academic and Social Integration: A Phenomenological Study of First-Generation, Female Student Experience and Persistence in Community College TRiO Programs
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Parsons, Brianna Bates – ProQuest LLC, 2012
First-generation, female college students often face an uphill battle in their quest for degree attainment. Literature suggests several areas in which first-generation college students struggle, but there are programs designed to help this demographic of student; specifically the TRiO program, a federally-funded operation that specializes in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Social Integration, First Generation College Students, Community Colleges
Community College Fundraising: The Voluntary Support of Education Survey as a Sampling Tool for Research
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Wagoner, Richard L.; Besikof, Rudolph J. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2011
This article describes the Voluntary Support for Education (VSE) Survey, an instrument created by the Council for Aid to Education. Our objective is to explain VSE's potential value as a tool to inform both institutional and academic research regarding fund-raising activities at community colleges. Of particular interest is how the data available…
Descriptors: Fund Raising, Community Colleges, College Presidents, School Surveys
The First Year Introduction Program as a Predictor of Student Academic Performance
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Montgomery, Joe C.; Jeffs, Maddy; Schlegel, Jason; Jones, Ty – Journal of Applied Research in the Community College, 2009
This study hypothesized that student performance in a First Year Introduction program (FYI), representing an initial sampling of students' academic behaviors, would correlate with subsequent academic success. Subjects were 1,501 first-time, first-year students attending Columbia Basin College in fall quarter 2007, whose FYI performance was graded…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Freshmen, First Year Seminars, Program Effectiveness