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South Carolina Univ., Columbia. National Resource Center for the Freshman Year Experience and Students in Transition. – 1996
These proceedings focus on the foundations for improving the undergraduate experience, especially college programs and activities designed for freshmen and new students. It includes 116 abstracts of seminars, poster sessions, workshops, and other programs developed by faculty and institutions to improve the undergraduate experience. The abstracts…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Academic Achievement, College Curriculum, College Freshmen
Sandler, Martin E. – 2002
The effects of selected variables on the academic persistence of adult students were examined in a study of a random sample of 469 adult students aged 24 years or older enrolled in a four-year college. The survey questionnaire, the Adult Student Experiences Survey, collected data regarding 12 endogenous variables and 13 exogenous variables…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Adult Learning, Adult Students
Public Forum Inst., Washington, DC. – 2000
"Perspectives on Progress: The School-to-Work (STW) National Customer Dialogues" was a series of six regional and two national discussions that were held between December 1999 and July 2000 to gather the views of more than 700 employers, educators, labor union representatives, students, parents, community-based organizations, and state…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Articulation (Education), Change Strategies, College Programs