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Rost, Jim; Krahenbuhl, Kevin – Impacting Education: Journal on Transforming Professional Practice, 2023
Institutions of higher education have long been plagued with difficulty in overcoming the high rates of incompletion of candidates who enroll in doctoral programs. As we continue to move through the post-pandemic era, online course delivery in doctoral programs continues to rise which brings an added layer of difficulty for EdD students to persist…
Descriptors: Social Integration, Doctoral Programs, Online Courses, Electronic Learning
Minnesota Office of Higher Education, 2020
It is often thought that college undergraduates are young, recent high school graduates. Overall, this is the norm -- last year, roughly 70 percent of undergraduates eligible for the State Grant were dependent students, meaning they were dependent on a parent for financial support. However, nearly 30 percent of undergraduates who were eligible for…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Parents, Child Rearing, Adult Students
Scovill, Kent; Tucker, Corinna Jenkins – Carsey Institute, 2013
In this brief, authors Kent Scovill and Corinna Jenkins Tucker describe Coös youths' mentor relationships using data from the Carsey Institute's Coös Youth Study collected in 2007. They report that, in 2007, a majority of Coös youth in seventh and eleventh grade (60.2 percent) report having a mentor. In addition, 68 percent of Coös youths' mentors…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Mentors, Grade 7, Grade 11
Gault, Barbara; Noll, Elizabeth; Reichlin, Lindsey – Association of Community College Trustees, 2017
Researchers Barbara Gault, Elizabeth Noll, and Lindsey Reichlin, from the Institute for Women's Policy Research (DC), assess the unique needs of community college students who are also parents. The majority of students with children attend community college. Single parents, the majority of whom are mothers, are more likely to work fulltime and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Environment, At Risk Students, Family School Relationship
Stringfellow, Erica L.; McAndrew, Francis T. – Journal of College Student Development, 2010
A study of 357 students (112 males, 245 females) responding to an online survey at a Midwestern liberal arts college revealed that males and children from divorced families perceived themselves as more promiscuous and drank more than did students from intact families. However, a significant interaction between the gender of the students and the…
Descriptors: Divorce, College Students, Marital Status, At Risk Students
Ratcliffe, Caroline; McKernan, Signe-Mary – Urban Institute, 2012
One in six newborns were born poor over the past 40 years, and nearly half remained poor half their childhoods. These persistently poor children are nearly 90 percent more likely than never-poor children to enter their 20s without completing high school and are four times more likely to give birth outside of marriage during their teenage years.…
Descriptors: Poverty, Low Income Groups, Dropouts, Family Characteristics
Redmond, Jennifer; Harford, Judith – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2010
In 1932, the Irish government, facing an economic downturn, introduced a marriage ban which required that female primary school teachers were required to resign on marriage. This followed a series of restrictive legislative measures adopted by Irish governments throughout the 1920s which sought to limit women's participation in public life and the…
Descriptors: White Collar Occupations, Marital Status, Females, Marriage
Carter, Sarah – Great Plains Quarterly, 2009
In May 1910 Mildred Williams, a young teacher in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, made headlines across Western Canada for her pluck and stamina as she waited for twelve days and nights on a chair on the stairs outside the door of the land office in Saskatoon to claim a homestead. She was determined to file on a half-section (320 acres) of valuable land…
Descriptors: Marital Status, Foreign Countries, Federal Legislation, Females
Guzzo, Karen Benjamin – Journal of Family Issues, 2009
Using Cycle 6 of the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG), this article documents the extent to which cohabitors begin their union with intentions to marry (indicated by either being engaged or having definite plans to marry) and how this is related to subsequent cohabitation transitions, building on earlier literature examining expectations.…
Descriptors: Marriage, Gender Differences, Marital Status, Intention
Wooten, Kevin C.; Valenti, Alix M. – Journal of Employment Counseling, 2008
A heterogeneous sample of 301 men and 118 women who experienced job loss was surveyed on 4 affective and 14 attributional variables. Analysis revealed that approximately 90% of the reported gender differences involving job loss reactions disappeared when age, ethnic background, marital status, education, tenure, salary, job classification, and…
Descriptors: Marital Status, Females, Gender Differences, Unemployment
Dyaram, Lata; Kamalanabhan, T. J. – International Journal of Learning and Change, 2008
This paper attempts to extend and contribute to the domestic diversity literature by presenting a comprehensive model that takes into consideration the Indian work set up. It proposes to examine the effects of the composition of information systems development teams in Indian firms. Besides the conventional demographics which were studied…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Information Systems, Group Dynamics, Foreign Countries

Sasser, Alicia – Journal of Human Resources, 2005
A study showing the sharp decline in women physicians' earnings once they are married and faced with family responsibilities is presented.
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Physicians, Family Work Relationship, Wages
Anderson, Sharon E. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2008
This report examines the timing of teaching careers of 1992-93 college graduates at three points during the 10 years after graduation. It answers questions about the characteristics of graduates who enter and leave teaching, focusing specifically on their demographic characteristics, academic preparation, teacher working conditions, and…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Bachelors Degrees, Teachers, Career Choice
Marcelo, Karlo Barrios; Lopez, Mark Hugo – Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE), University of Maryland, 2006
This fact sheet compares the numbers of 18-25 year-old immigrants by nativity status, gender, race, ethnicity, geographic distribution, country of origin, year of arrival, marital status, educational attainment, and assesses population trends from 1994-2006. These numbers are based on Current Population Survey data. An appendix presents: 2006 At a…
Descriptors: Population Trends, Youth, Marital Status, Immigration
Davis, Nanette J. – Journal of Education Finance, 2005
This article identifies typical life course situations that women experience, which contribute to a cycle of discrimination or a recurrence of disadvantages simply because of their sex, race, or age. Although men suffer social, health, psychological, and economic disadvantages as they age, this article focuses primarily on women as a more deprived…
Descriptors: Females, Social Class, Retirement, Males