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Direct linkLuster, Pamela T. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
California Community Colleges face unique challenges and opportunities in serving the state's largest new majority students who are also the state's most at-risk students. These students are the primary driver of the new economy, however they arrive at college with significant educational and economic disadvantages (Woodlief, Thomas, & Orozco,…
Descriptors: College Planning, Community Colleges, Action Research, At Risk Students
Peer reviewedFox, Richard N. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1984
Pascarella and Terenzini developed five factorially derived institutional integration scales to operationalize Tinto's conceptual model of college student withdrawal. Some psychometric characteristics of these scales were estimated for disadvantaged students at an urban commuter college. The scales showed improved characteristics after item…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Developmental Studies Programs, Disadvantaged, Dropout Research
Moten, Charlyne H. – 1978
After the 1975 political upheaval in Indochina, many Indochinese refugees settled in the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, area. A number of them enrolled in Harrisburg Area Community College between January, 1976, and December, 1977, primarily in developmental courses because of their lack of formal training in English. A study was conducted to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Acculturation, Community Colleges
