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A STEM Penalty from Affirmative Action Bans?
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David Mickey-Pabello – Research in Higher Education, 2024
The study investigates a tension between affirmative action scholars who hypothesize that affirmative action bans would increase underrepresented minority students' STEM college completions and scholars who have empirically estimated declines. It also questions results that that find no existence of a STEM penalty (compared to non-STEM) caused by…
Descriptors: College Students, Minority Group Students, STEM Education, Affirmative Action
Estimating South African Higher Education Productivity and Its Determinants Using Färe-Primont Index: Are Historically Disadvantaged Universities Catching Up?
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Temoso, Omphile; Myeki, Lindikaya W. – Research in Higher Education, 2023
Recent high dropout and low graduation rates in the South African higher education institutions as well as government funding cuts and the economic uncertainty due to COVID-19 pandemic have heightened the urgency for the higher education sector to improve its productivity. However, empirical evidence on the productivity growth of the sector…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Productivity, Disadvantaged Schools
The Paradox of HBCU Graduation Rates
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Gordon, Ethan K.; Hawley, Zackary B.; Kobler, Ryan Carrasco; Rork, Jonathan C. – Research in Higher Education, 2021
This paper examines the propensity of African American students to graduate from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Using IPEDS data from 2004 to 2016, we take care in developing a control group of institutions from which to compare HBCU success. Results suggest that despite accepting more students who are at risk of not…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Graduation Rate, African American Students, At Risk Students
Why the Boys Are Missing: Using Social Capital to Explain Gender Differences in College Enrollment for Public High School Students
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Klevan, Sarah; Weinberg, Sharon L.; Middleton, Joel A. – Research in Higher Education, 2016
In 1960, over 60 % of bachelor degrees were awarded to men. However, the rate of women's college completion has steadily risen and, by 2004, women received nearly 60 % of bachelor degrees. Drawing on the theoretical contributions of James Coleman, this paper examines the ability of social capital to explain observed differences in college…
Descriptors: Public Schools, High School Students, Gender Differences, Social Capital
Bachelor's Degree Completion across State Contexts: Does the Distribution of Enrollments Make a Difference?
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Roksa, Josipa – Research in Higher Education, 2010
Growing accountability pressures, accompanied by a lack of readily accessible measures of institutional performance, have led to an increasing focus on graduation rates. Although previous research has illuminated myriad factors influencing students' likelihood of educational success, it has not paid adequate attention to how state contexts may…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Graduation Rate, Time to Degree, Enrollment Trends
Institutional Selectivity and Institutional Expenditures: Examining Organizational Factors that Contribute to Retention and Graduation
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Gansemer-Topf, Ann M.; Schuh, John H. – Research in Higher Education, 2006
Many institutions of higher education increasingly are concerned with retention and graduation rates. Focusing on private Baccalaureate Liberal and General colleges and universities, the purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between institutional selectivity and institutional expenditures and retention and graduation rates. Framed…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Expenditures, Educational Finance, School Holding Power
Differences in Graduation Rates between Young Black and White College Students: Effect of Entry into Parenthood and Historically Black Universities
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Sibulkin, Amy E.; Butler, J. S. – Research in Higher Education, 2005
Black and White students who enrolled in college by age 20 were selected from a national probability sample, in order to estimate the prevalence of having children and the effect of having a child on probability of graduation with a bachelor's degree. Black students reported significantly higher rates of having children than White students, but…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, African American Students, White Students, College Students