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Direct linkJohn Kirby Hall – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study examines the root causes of student success and struggle in the first semester of a community college tuition-free promise program. The research is set within the context of the Gateway2NKU River Cities Promise Program (RCPP), a partnership between Gateway Community and Technical College (Gateway) and Northern Kentucky University (NKU)…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Tuition, Student Financial Aid, Program Effectiveness
Gallo, Kristen – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Institutions of higher education currently face serious challenges, including high costs for learners, demand for return on investment from students, and expectations from employers to produce work-ready graduates. Skills desired by employers are shifting as technology advances, putting further pressure on colleges and universities to adapt and…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Job Skills, Cooperative Education, Program Effectiveness
Kim, Sooji – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The federal work-study program is one of the earliest forms of federal financial aid for higher education in the United States and has come under close scrutiny for its debatable impact on low-income students' college success and persistence. However, federal work-study surprisingly remains one of the least-studied financial aid programs. This has…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Work Study Programs, Low Income Students, Student Financial Aid
Daniel Corral – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This three-study dissertation investigated how socioeconomic factors and policies are associated with educational outcomes for undocumented youth and, in one of the papers, to what extent education and employment outcomes intersect. Guided by the specific questions of each study, the three papers take different theoretical and methodological…
Descriptors: Undocumented Immigrants, College Enrollment, Hispanic American Students, Race
Hadjimitsos, Panayiotis – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between when in the fall semester a first year experience (FYE) course was taken to fall-to-spring retention of first time students at a large, Chicago suburban community college. Since most of the students' attrition has been in the first year in college, FYE programs have been designed to…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Academic Persistence, Two Year College Students, Community Colleges
Sharp, Nicolas C. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this study was to use the National Survey of Student Engagement's (NSSE) measures of student engagement to determine whether there were different levels of student self-reported engagement scores when comparing freshman and senior level students who attend work colleges (WC) with public, four-year, small, highly residential…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, College Seniors, Learner Engagement, National Surveys
