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Troiano, Helena; Elias, Marina – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2014
University expansion in higher education has been hierarchically differentiated. There is some concentration of certain social profiles in some degrees of study, so social composition between degrees can vary considerably. This article describes in terms of social composition 10 degrees of four public universities in the metropolitan area of…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Expectation, Student Educational Objectives, Public Colleges
Ramsey, James Louis – ProQuest LLC, 2013
In order to improve the academic and cultural transition of low income, disadvantaged, first-generation, and working-class students at a public flagship institution, the purpose of this qualitative study is to listen as these students, with increasingly diverse background experiences, narrate their first-year experiences, including the summer…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Low Income Groups, Public Colleges, Selective Admission