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Benjamin Skinner; Taylor Burtch; Hazel Levy – Research in Higher Education, 2024
Increasing numbers of students require internet access to pursue their undergraduate degrees, yet broadband access remains inequitable across student populations. Furthermore, surveys that currently show differences in access by student demographics or location typically do so at high levels of aggregation, thereby obscuring important variation…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Internet, Telecommunications, Information Technology
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Wesley Jeffrey; Benjamin G. Gibbs – Research in Higher Education, 2024
While a substantial body of work has shown that higher-SES students tend to apply to more selective colleges than their lower-SES counterparts, we know relatively less about "why" students differ in their application behavior. In this study, we draw upon a sociological approach to educational stratification to unpack the SES-based gap in…
Descriptors: College Applicants, Socioeconomic Status, Socioeconomic Influences, College Choice
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Li Feng; Eleanor W. Close; Cynthia J. Luxford; Jiwoo An Pierson; Alice Olmstead; Jieon Shim; Venkata Sowjanya Koka; Heather C. Galloway – Research in Higher Education, 2025
Evidence-based and student-centered instructional methods hold the promise of transforming undergraduate STEM education and simultaneously solving the dual challenge of STEM workforce needs and inequities within STEM. The Learning Assistant (LA) Model was created to reform curriculum, recruit teachers, and inform discipline-based education…
Descriptors: STEM Education, School Holding Power, Graduation Rate, Data Analysis
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Schuck, Amie M. – Research in Higher Education, 2017
The goal of this study is to evaluate the effect of crime and discipline on graduation rates in higher education. Using national data on more than 1250 public and private non-profit institutions that were drawn from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, the results reveal that more violence on and around campus is associated with…
Descriptors: Crime, Discipline, Academic Achievement, Graduation Rate
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Foster, John M.; Fowles, Jacob – Research in Higher Education, 2018
A rich interdisciplinary literature exists exploring the determinants of state higher education funding policies. However, that work has collectively ignored an important finding from political economy literature: namely, that citizens' preferences regarding public spending are strongly influenced by the state's ethnic and racial context. Drawing…
Descriptors: State Aid, Higher Education, Funding Formulas, State Policy
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Bird, Kelli; Castleman, Benjamin L. – Research in Higher Education, 2016
College affordability continues to be a top concern among prospective students, their families, and policy makers. Prior work has demonstrated that a significant share of prospective students forgo financial aid because they did not complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA); recent federal policy efforts have focused on…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Student Financial Aid, Longitudinal Studies, Academic Achievement
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Shafaei, Azadeh; Razak, Nordin Abd – Research in Higher Education, 2016
This study develops and empirically tests a conceptual model capturing the factors impacting students' cross-cultural adaptation and the outcomes resulting from such adaption. Data were obtained from a sample of international postgraduate students from six Malaysian public universities using a structured questionnaire. Structural equation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Acculturation, Student Adjustment