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Lauren Schudde; Huriya Jabbar – Harvard Education Press, 2024
In "Discredited," education scholars Lauren Schudde and Huriya Jabbar illuminate the successes and failures of the systems that support student transfer among postsecondary institutions. Summarizing the key challenges of various transfer pathways, Schudde and Jabbar show how the current decentralized, bureaucracy-ridden, and often…
Descriptors: College Transfer Students, Postsecondary Education, Barriers, Administrative Organization
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Ojeda, Lizette; Castillo, Linda G.; Rosales Meza, Rocío; Piña-Watson, Brandy – Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 2014
This study examined how college persistence intentions and life satisfaction influenced by acculturation, enculturation, White marginalization, and Mexican American marginalization among 515 Mexican American college students. The utility of a path analysis model was supported. Enculturation positively predicted persistence and life satisfaction.…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Life Satisfaction, Academic Persistence, College Students
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Barraclough, Laura; McMahon, Marci R. – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2013
In response to the national conversation about the U.S.-Mexico border and immigration in recent years, we created an online partnership between students in concurrent border studies courses at our two campuses: a public Hispanic-serving institution in South Texas and a private, small liberal arts college in Michigan. We explored whether and how…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Race, Social Class, Immigration
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Gold, David – College English, 2005
The rhetorical training of students at East Texas Normal College is examined with reference to the rhetorical practices and educational ideologies of William Mayo, the experiences of his students and the features of his teaching. Examination of the history of schools like East Texas Normal College helps in dealing with concerns regarding…
Descriptors: Ideology, Educational History, Rhetoric, College Students
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Neff, Kristin D.; Suizzo, Marie-Anne – Cognitive Development, 2006
This study investigated possible cultural differences in the association of power, authentic self-expression, and well-being within romantic relationships. Participants (N = 314) included European American students from a central Texas university and Mexican American students from a border university. Results indicated that power inequality was…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Cultural Differences, Well Being, Intimacy
Johnson, R. Scott; Rodriguez, Carlos M. – 1991
A study examined policies addressing minority student retention in higher education at the national, state, and institutional level in order to clarify how the discourse surrounding minority student retention in higher education is related to social and political purposes and existing power arrangements. The study proceeded by critically examining…
Descriptors: College Students, Educational Policy, Higher Education, Minority Groups