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Direct linkDavid Zarifa; Yujiro Sano; Roger Pizarro Milian – Higher Education Quarterly, 2025
Considerable scholarly attention has been devoted to how gender, race and various other demographic factors shape the odds of majoring in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) programs. Such work has identified sizable disparities in access to STEM fields across various dimensions. In turn, these empirical findings have informed…
Descriptors: Guided Pathways, Barriers, STEM Education, Access to Education
Download full textDavid Daigler – Maine Community College System, 2024
The Maine Community College System provides this letter in accordance with 20-A MRSA §10013. This law requires the Maine Community College System (MCCS), University of Maine System (UMS), and Maine Maritime Academy (MMA) to provide the following information about first-generation college students by January 15th of each year: (1) Data regarding…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, First Generation College Students, Community College Students, Enrollment Rate
Jennifer C. Duckworth; Devon A. Abdallah; Michael S. Gilson; Christine M. Lee – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: Among two-year college students, alcohol and marijuana use, related consequences, and risk factors for use are not well understood. We examined differences between two- and four-year students in alcohol and marijuana use, consequences, and perceived descriptive norms, and explored whether two-year status moderated associations between…
Descriptors: Drinking, Marijuana, Risk, Drug Use
Terrace Ewinghill – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This case study examines the transfer experiences and sense of belonging in STEM among historically marginalized and excluded students transitioning from Pima Community College to the University of Arizona. Utilizing mixed methods, survey data from two student cohorts are analyzed to gain insights into their transition process. The study…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Community College Students, College Transfer Students, Models
Afet Dundar – Institute for Women's Policy Research, 2025
Student parents--college students with dependent children--are highly motivated to succeed in college. They pursue degrees not only to achieve economic mobility for themselves but also to secure a better future for their children. Despite their high aspirations, they encounter significant barriers that contribute to frequent stop-outs--withdrawing…
Descriptors: College Students, Parents, Barriers, Student Needs
Brian P. An; Chad N. Loes – Research in Higher Education, 2025
We examine whether participation in dual enrollment increases student engagement in college using a nationally representative sample of postsecondary institutions. We use student engagement frameworks to guide our analysis, but draw on more recent studies that include student transfer as an outcome option. Dual enrollment initially exposes…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, College Students, College Transfer Students, Program Effectiveness
Ibrahim Bicak – Research in Higher Education, 2024
This study describes course withdrawal behaviors in the Texas public higher education institutions and examines the predictors of course withdrawal by using statewide administrative datasets. The findings showed that two-thirds of the college students in the sample withdrew from at least one course, highlighting course withdrawal as a prevalent…
Descriptors: Withdrawal (Education), College Students, Community College Students, Transfer Students
Taylor E. Hough – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Although 80% of students who enroll in a community college intend to transfer, less than 35% complete the transfer within six years (Barshay, 2020; Cepeda et al., 2021; Jabbar et al., 2020; Jenkins & Fink, 2015). The demand for college-educated workers has increased, creating a gap in the job market and impacting the economy. As the need for…
Descriptors: College Transfer Students, Community College Students, Success, Student Experience
Shannon Bishop; Susan Troncoso Skidmore; Linda Reichwein Zientek – Community College Enterprise, 2025
This study examined community college students' mathematics and academic self-efficacy in synchronous live online and asynchronous traditional online learning environments. Additionally, students' self-efficacy as it related to students' feelings of choice and preference regarding course modality was examined. This study took place during the…
Descriptors: College Students, Self Efficacy, Mathematics Instruction, Online Courses
Cyrette Saunier; Susan Scrivener; Austin Slaughter; Noor Amanullah; Sukanya Barman; Cynthia Miller; Colleen Sommo; Erick Alonzo, Contributor; Osvaldo Avila, Contributor; Katie Beal, Contributor; Parker Cellura, Contributor; Ben Cohen, Contributor; Stanley Dai, Contributor; Hannah Dalporto, Contributor; Claudia Escobar, Contributor; Colin Hill, Contributor; Marco Lepe, Contributor; Tiffany Morton, Contributor; Rebekah O’Donoghue, Contributor; Vivianna Plancarte, Contributor; Alyssa Ratledge, Contributor; Elena Serna-Wallender, Contributor; Andrea Vasquez, Contributor; Rae Walker, Contributor; Michelle Ware, Contributor; Kayla Warner, Contributor; Melissa Wavelet, Contributor; Michael Weiss, Contributor; Diane Wren, Contributor – MDRC, 2025
Community colleges and broad-access universities (those with minimally selective admissions policies) provide an opportunity for students across the United States to attain postsecondary degrees and achieve economic mobility. However, graduation rates from such colleges are often low and there are many obstacles that can be difficult to…
Descriptors: Intervention, Academic Persistence, Program Development, Costs
Ellie Kaverman – Center for the Study of Social Policy, 2023
In 2022, the Center for the Study of Social Policy and Project SPARC conducted research to better understand the barriers experienced by parenting students in CalWORKs, California's cash assistance program for families with children. This brief highlights findings from the research on parenting students' experiences transferring to four-year…
Descriptors: Parents, College Students, College Transfer Students, Barriers
Daigler, David – Maine Community College System, 2022
The Maine Community College System is providing this letter in accordance with 20-A MRSA §10013. This law requires the Maine Community College System (MCCS), University of Maine System (UMS), and Maine Maritime Academy (MMA) to provide the following information about first-generation college students by January 15th of each year: (1) data…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, First Generation College Students, Community College Students, Enrollment Rate
Cate, Leandra; Wetzstein, Lia; Kovacich, Katie – Community College Research Initiatives, 2023
One of the key commitments of the Community College Research Initiatives (CCRI's) STEM Transfer Partnership (STP) program is to transform STEM transfer pathways and improve outcomes for students from low-income backgrounds using student input. Student input is an essential element in institutional transformation for student success but the process…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Student Attitudes, Educational Change, Data Collection
CalFresh Participation among California's College Students: A 2021-22 School Year Update. Data Point
Peer reviewedAlan Perez; Sarah Hoover; Jamila Henderson; Jennifer Hogg; Johanna Lacoe; Jesse Rothstein – Grantee Submission, 2024
Food insecurity is widespread among college students in the United States. CalFresh food benefits, known federally as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, can help students in California pay for food, but may not reach all eligible students. To better measure student participation in CalFresh, the California Policy Lab (CPL)…
Descriptors: Hunger, College Students, Student Participation, Food
CalFresh Participation among California's College Students: A 2021-22 School Year Update. Data Point
Alan Perez; Sarah Hoover; Jamila Henderson; Jennifer Hogg; Johanna Lacoe; Jesse Rothstein – California Policy Lab, 2024
Food insecurity is widespread among college students in the United States. CalFresh food benefits, known federally as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) can help students in California pay for food, but may not reach all eligible students. To better measure student participation in CalFresh, the California Policy Lab (CPL)…
Descriptors: Welfare Services, Federal Programs, Nutrition, Hunger
