The U.S. military services send officers to graduate schools each year to pursue advanced degrees, primarily to fill billet requirements later. This can be costly, including such things as tuition, housing, and pay but also the opportunity cost of the officer not filling an operational billet. Participation in such a program incurs specific…

This study addressed the influence of social capital factors on the first-year persistence of beginning first- and second-generation four-year college students. First-generation students were those students whose parents had never attended college. Second-generation students had at least one parent who attended college. A case was made for…

This study combined a social capital-oriented status attainment approach, a life course perspective, and a risk approach that features analysis of subgroups at particularly high risk, to examine the determinants of adult achievement among at-risk males. Achievement was operationalized as socioeconomic attainment and included outcomes related to…