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Jenna L. Gannon; Megan M. Chambers – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2025
Retention rates in higher education continue to be a prevalent issue especially for community colleges and will become a bigger issue in the current climate of enrollment loss. Much literature regarding student retention focuses on broad, overarching findings, but it is important to understand institution-specific retention factors. The purpose of…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, School Holding Power, Community College Students, Student Characteristics
Richard James Muth – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The first goal of this study was to better understand the differences between rural and urban students' selection of academic program upon entering a public university in Pennsylvania. The second goal of this study was to better understand if particular academic programs impacted rural to urban migrations after graduating from the university. The…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Rural Urban Differences, Decision Making, Public Colleges
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Van Overschelde, James P.; Garza, Rubén – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2020
A large gap exists between the percentage of teachers and of students who are Hispanic. To better understand this gap, we compared Hispanic and White preservice teachers' motivations for becoming teachers and perceptions of the teaching profession during their application to a large traditional teacher certification program at a Hispanic-serving…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Hispanic American Students, White Students, Student Attitudes
Thomas, Joan – 1984
"Choosing the Future: College Students' Projections of Their Personal Life Patterns" is a machine-readable data file (MRDF) prepared by the principal investigator in connection with her doctoral program studies and her 1986 unpublished doctoral dissertation prepared in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cincinnati. The…
Descriptors: Career Planning, College Students, Expectation, Family Characteristics